Stress
52 Articles & Excerpts
Do You Get Depressed?
Do you get depressed easily? If you do, why don't you ask yourself, not why are you depressed, but how are you depressed. Now, don't look at me like I'm crazy. I just happen to think it's interesting to know how a person gets depressed.
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Hot Stones and Funny Bones: Teens Helping Teens Cope with Stress and Anger by Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D., Linda Bartlett, M.S. At some level, no matter who you are, everyone's looking for acceptance and approval. In this case, it's acceptance to be liked by new friends and peers. Even among those who won't admit it, everyone would love to be considered popular.
Plans to Relax, Relieve Stress, and Re-Energize
The Weekend Healer by Jane Alexander essential home programmes to refresh body, mind and spirit (Gaia). The Weekend Healer offers seventeen weekend programmes to indulge in at home. Each programme will help you get the most out of the weekend with advice on making time for yourself and ways
Practical Tools for Reducing Anxiety by Mark Fourman, LLP War, terrorist attacks, a new deadly virus, job and family stress. Let's face it: most of us have something to be anxious about these days. Anxiety is fear about the future that we keep experiencing for long enough that it becomes a habit.
Painting Your Inner Self
The Weekend Healer by Jane Alexander Painting, drawing and sculpting are all ideal partners in the retreat process. Don't come with any expectations and let go the concept that you have to paint properly or draw well. Art can free the unconscious mind quite dramatically and many people have
How Much of a Worrier Are You? A Self-Assessment Quiz
Worry by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. Everyone is a worrier some of the time. But are you an excessive worrier? How can you get a handle on how much worry is normal and how much is too much? How do you know when to get help? You need to look at how you worry.
Relax, Or You're Going To End Up Like All My Dead Friends
Relax, and learn to laugh at yourself, or all the old people you know will laugh at you. They'll say, Look at yourself. You're worrying about everything, and nothing is going right. When are you ever going to learn? You gotta relax, or you're going
Emotion Medicine
The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think. -Henri Poincaré, Of Science and Hypotheses. Every life is unique ... and every life is difficult.
Managing the Fear
Our society is challenged as never before. Anxiety fills the air so thick we can feel it around us. Our sense of safety has been undermined, and along with it our sense of control. We lived under the illusion of control for so long that we may have come
So-How's Your Emotional Energy?
The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue by Mira Kirshenbaum If you've been looking for more energy, you're not alone. Millions of people every day confess things like 'I wish I had more energy.' 'I just can't get started in the morning.' 'Thinking about the long busy day ahead makes me feel overwhelmed.'
Stress with a Human Face
Stand Like Mountain Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality by Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D. These are stressful times. You can see it in people's eyes and hear it in their voices. It's a feeling that seems to be ever-present, despite our best efforts to overcome it.
Learning About Stress and Your Life
Stress Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Wellness by Edward A. Charlesworth, Ph.D., Ronald G. Nathan, Ph.D. We live in a new age of anxiety, century of stress, and era of terrorism. Once the name Columbine brought to mind only a beautiful mountain flower and September 11 was just another day on the calendar.
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Tired of Being Tired: Rescue, Repair, Rejuvenate by Jesse Lynn Hanley, M.D., Nancy DeVille In today's high-stress world, many would answer yes to at least one of these questions. Irritability, insomnia, weight gain or loss, recurring colds and flu, environmental sensitivities, and low energy are problems that are becoming more commonplace every
Please, Come Back to Your Senses
The Art of Calm: Relaxation Through the Five Senses by Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D. Today in America, the pace of life can best be described as warp speed. Some might say it's even out of control. Twelve to fourteen-hour workdays, cellular phones attached to the ear, a barrage of emails, multiple voice mail messages, 57 cable channels
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A Taste-Berry Teen's Guide to Managing the Stress and Pressures of Life by Bettie Youngs, Ph. D., Ed.D., Jennifer Leigh Youngs Understanding the Many Personalities of Stress. We suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium. Stress. We hear the word and use it a great deal, but what is it really?
The Many Faces of Trauma and Recovery Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal by Belleruth Naparstek A wide range of situations can catalyze post-traumatic stress, and there are many avenues-seemingly different, but very much related-to recovery. Here are some personal stories from trauma survivors that provide a sampling of traumatic situations
Shifting Gears
How to Calm Down: Three Deep Breaths to Peace of Mind by Fred L. Miller At any given moment during a typical day, does your blood pressure rise, your pulse rate hit 10 percent over normal, and your breathing seem to stop? Sound familiar? If so, read on.
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The 7 Systems of Balance: A Natural Prescription for Healthy Living in a Hectic World by Paul J. Sorgi, M.D If you're familiar with some of those dreary feelings that just won't go away-anger, confusion, frustration, tension and sadness-this breakthrough book is for you and those you love. These are some of the feelings we experience when we're out of balance
A New World Disorder
Raising Stable Kids in an Unstable World: A Physician's Guide to Dealing With Childhood Stress by David Ryan Marks, M.D. A book that couldn't have been written at a better time-children experience stresses from an overload of organized activities, excessive pressure to succeed, ongoing exposure to violence, and perhaps the most stressful event of all: the catastrophic day
Betrayal of 'What's Right'
Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay, M.D. Every instance of severe traumatic psychological injury is a standing challenge to the rightness of the social order. - Judith Lewis Herman. We begin in the moral world of the soldier - what his culture understands to be right - and betrayal of that moral
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| Advice & Discussions | STRESS. please help. My boyfriend had just moved two hours away, my brother had moved twelve hours away, my grandfather is in a coma, I am unsuccessfully looking for a much needed job, and I am trying to get into a college. SO, I am carrying a lot of stress. I have a tendancy of breaking down and crying. | Fictive Stress Is it normal to suffer from stress when you do NOTHING in your life?
It's as if stress comes purposely to replace the time in which you do nothing. | Stress and a Backache/ A vicious circle I have a job which is full of stress, and have been struggling with the torrible pain in my back -for 3 months now- which hurts whenever I sit. The problem is this does not stop, I have gone to a series of doctors, all of which said a different thing, some said do not do any sports and some gave me some small exercise. | Xma and stress. When I get stressed out (ie just losing my job and exams at college coming up) I always get a cold, flu, tonsilitus and my xma comes up and it really hurts. I've tried using lots of things and found that tea tree oil is helping me the most. But still has anyone got any ideas of what might help me reduce the stress, because I'm fed up with getting ill. | Really stressed right now, almost lost my cool Ok, so tonight when I came home I had a HUGE arguement with my so called "property manager". I own an apartment which is part of a strata lot. Included with the lot is a parking stall, which I havn't been using since I havn't had a licensed car for about 5 months Tonight I come home and one of HIS vehicles was parked in my spot. |
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