Stress

Your Health Depends On How Happy You Feel
by eNotAlone.com
Medical experts have established that there is a direct link between our personality and better health. According to a new study, the ability of the body to resist inflammatory diseases that are associated with stress, is not just a matter of our genetics

Stress Is Responsible For Grey Hair
by eNotAlone.com
Grey hair is a sign of age, without any doubt, but the real cause of the hair color change is stress, report Japanese scientists in a paper. The study also says that if individuals experienced less stress in their lives, they could keep their natural

Men In Average Relationship Are Stressed At Work
by eNotAlone.com
Men who have an average emotional and sexual relationship with their partner at home, experience more stress at work, compared to their counterparts in good or bad relationships, found a new survey conducted by the researchers from Sweden.

IBMT - New Meditation Therapy To Reduce Stress
by eNotAlone.com
Chinese scientists have unraveled a secret of a mind-body technique, adapted from traditional Chinese medicine, that significantly cuts down stress levels in just five days of practice. The practice - integrative body-mind training (IBMT) - is practiced

Love Hormone Oxytocin Improves Stressful Relationships
by eNotAlone.com
Relationships are hard work and most of the people probably think at some point that communicating in a positive way with the other half when discussing stressful issues, such as home finances, for example, is an impossible thing to do.

Depression Rises With Bad Work Environment
by eNotAlone.com
People who work in a stressful work environment with a poor team spirit are at an increased risk of developing depression and being prescribed antidepressants, says a new report published this week in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Work Promotion Is Actually Bad For Health
by eNotAlone.com
Promotion at work can be good for the pocket, but can be very risky for a person's mental health, according to British economics and psychology researchers from the University of Warwick in Coventry.

Economic Crisis Affects Our Health
by eNotAlone.com
There is nothing else but economy that preoccupies the minds of Americans at present times of economic stress and recession. The negative statistics on unemployment, tanking investments, housing costs and consumer confidence keep coming and coming

Women Handle Stressful Life Events Better Than Men
by eNotAlone.com
The experts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem indicate that women can handle stressful situations much better than men. According to a new scientific study, individuals have different reactions to strain, mostly due to their genetic differences.

Is There A Way To Mend A Broken Heart?
by eNotAlone.com
Having a broken heart can be really dangerous for health, and in fact, it can lead to a deadly outcome, report U.S. scientists who found why some individuals do suffer from the condition.

Men Suffer More From Recession Than Women
by eNotAlone.com
Job insecurity makes men more depressed, stressed and anxious than women in the same situation, according to new findings by academics at the University of Cambridge. The scientists said that the fear of losing a job, and in other words, the status

Faith In God Helps Anxiety And Stress
by eNotAlone.com
Canadian scientists from the University of Toronto found that there are differences in the brains of religious people and those who are not. New findings show that people who believe in God experience less anxiety and stress compared to non-religious

How To Deal With Nervousness
by eNotAlone.com
Everyone on this planet has experienced being nervous at one point in their lives. Being nervous is a normal emotional reaction to stressful, unknown, or intimidating circumstances.

No Purple Medals For PTSD Victims
by eNotAlone.com
The Pentagon has decided not to award the Purple Heart medal to soldiers who suffer from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). The decision was made in November, but it became known only on Monday when appeared on the Web site of Stars and Stripes

Practice Lowering Your Stress
Winning After Losing: Keep Off the Weight You've Lost - Forever
by Stacey Halprin
There are lots of different ways to lower your stress level. For me, a swimming pool or any body of water immediately calms me down. Taking a walk, meditating, or window shopping works for me too.

Stress and Disease
by National Institute of Health
For thousands of years, people believed that stress made you sick. Up until the nineteenth century, the idea that the passions and emotions were intimately linked to disease held sway, and people were told by their doctors to go to spas or seaside resorts

Stressed Out?: Stress Affects Both Body and Mind
by National Institute of Health
Maybe it's money trouble or the burden of caring for a sick relative. Maybe it's your job. Maybe it's the traffic. Whatever the cause, everyone seems stressed out these days. People once hotly debated the idea that stress can affect your body

Work Stress and Alcohol Use
by National Institute of Health
Employees who drink heavily or who abuse or are dependent on alcohol can undermine a workforce's overall health and productivity. To better understand the reasons behind employee abusive drinking and to develop more effective ways of preventing problem

Alcohol, Aging and Stress
by National Institute of Health
The body responds to stress through a hormone system called the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal (HPA) axis. Stimulation of this system results in the secretion of stress hormones (glucocorticoids).

The Role of Stress in Alcohol Use
by National Institute of Health
Addiction to alcohol or other drugs (AODs) is a complex problem determined by multiple factors, including psychological and physiological components. Stress is considered a major contributor to the initiation and continuation of AOD use