When a marriage is rocky, it can make both partners feel depressed.
When you get angry, the stress isn't restricted to your head. New research shows that anger actually triggers electrical changes in the heart, which can predict future arrhythmias in some patients.
Dear Annie: I found your column "6 Ways to Be Happier at Work" very helpful, but what I could really use is some advice on how to help the people under me be happier (and more productive). Our department was cut drastically, back in February, so everyone has been working crazy hours since then. On top of that, we just heard our pay has been frozen, and bonuses this year will be far smaller than in the past.
A new international poll has revealed that money is the main source of stress in most countries --- but men and women often don't worry about the same things.
I have a diagnosis of brittle bipolar disorder. Most peer-reviewed literature tells me that setting up concrete routines (daily, work, home, etc.) is a good way to help control symptoms. Is this true? Is it an important tool or just speculation? How can I work with my employer/coworkers to limit my symptoms with routines?
We all know we're supposed to eat healthy portions. So why is it that a rough day at the office or even just the smell of chocolate-chip cookies can cause us to throw our best intentions out the window?
If you're working in a stressful environment, you and your colleagues may be communicating tension to one another without even realizing it.
There may be a reason that children's asthma rates are so high in urban areas. Youngsters with stressed-out parents and exposure to air pollution have a higher risk of asthma, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
America's highest ranking military officer said Tuesday the nation must do more for the mental health of American soldiers, warning statistics show "there are going to be more [troop] suicides this year than last."
Although it may have been Jon and Kate Gosselin's unusual family that landed them a reality show, it is their marital problems-- to which much of their audience can likely relate-- that have made them a household name in recent weeks.
When a marriage is rocky, it can make both partners feel depressed.
When you get angry, the stress isn't restricted to your head. New research shows that anger actually triggers electrical changes in the heart, which can predict future arrhythmias in some patients.
Dear Annie: I found your column "6 Ways to Be Happier at Work" very helpful, but what I could really use is some advice on how to help the people under me be happier (and more productive). Our department was cut drastically, back in February, so everyone has been working crazy hours since then. On top of that, we just heard our pay has been frozen, and bonuses this year will be far smaller than in the past.
A new international poll has revealed that money is the main source of stress in most countries --- but men and women often don't worry about the same things.
I have a diagnosis of brittle bipolar disorder. Most peer-reviewed literature tells me that setting up concrete routines (daily, work, home, etc.) is a good way to help control symptoms. Is this true? Is it an important tool or just speculation? How can I work with my employer/coworkers to limit my symptoms with routines?
We all know we're supposed to eat healthy portions. So why is it that a rough day at the office or even just the smell of chocolate-chip cookies can cause us to throw our best intentions out the window?
If you're working in a stressful environment, you and your colleagues may be communicating tension to one another without even realizing it.
There may be a reason that children's asthma rates are so high in urban areas. Youngsters with stressed-out parents and exposure to air pollution have a higher risk of asthma, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
America's highest ranking military officer said Tuesday the nation must do more for the mental health of American soldiers, warning statistics show "there are going to be more [troop] suicides this year than last."
Although it may have been Jon and Kate Gosselin's unusual family that landed them a reality show, it is their marital problems-- to which much of their audience can likely relate-- that have made them a household name in recent weeks.
"Just the facts" has always been Lillian Waugh's motto. A historian and former professor of women's studies at West Virginia University, Waugh is a stickler for facts and details. And because she was always the "go to" person at WVU, she was constantly in demand -- and busy.
Feel as if you're about to snap? Learn what causes stress, along with proven strategies for controlling it.
As if losing your job isn't bad enough, a new study suggests that people who are laid off are at higher risk of being diagnosed with health conditions such as hypertension, heart disease, and even arthritis than those who keep their jobs.
I deployed to Iraq for 15 months (in 2007-08). Upon my redeployment, I was reassigned; not only was I separated from my 2-year-old twins, but now I had to sell a home and relocate us. I have been back for a year. My husband says I have PTSD. I say it is just stress. I did not see any "hard" combat but worked 18-plus hours a day for 15 months. I have been tense; I don't sleep or dream; I am constantly exhausted. I can't lose weight (despite exercising daily); I have no patience and find myself biting my tongue instead of saying something I will regret later. Additionally, I have no interest in sex or other hobbies that I used to enjoy. Should I seek help? If published, please do not use my name.
The stress of being unemployed and looking for a new job gives Lucille Jaesson a tension headache almost every day.
If you're lying awake at night, feeling angry or fatigued, because of stress, you're in the majority, according to a nationwide report released Tuesday.
Erin Krebs, M.D., once had a patient who spent the first eight minutes of his appointment telling her everything that was wrong with the past four primary care doctors he'd seen -- including one she knew personally and considers a "lovely person." "We know that doctors are not perfect," said Krebs, an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "But it's not a good start to spend a lot of time complaining about the past."
As recession-rattled Americans look to stretch their dollars, it looks like yoga is a little luxury they're holding on to -- or adding to -- their schedules in the hopes of shedding some stress.
If you think you're immune to market panic, consider this experiment.
Managing the service department of an Atlanta, Georgia, car dealership is a stressful job, according to Debbie Peek.
Stress-induced analgesia occurs when an injured person can ignore the pain of an injury because of other stressful situations going on at the same time. For example, if you bang your shin while hiking, it stops hurting if you see a mountain lion. Researchers say a stress hormone, noradrenaline, also known as norepinephrine, which floods the bloodstream during stressful events, numbs the brain's pain-processing pathway. Previous studies have shown that adrenaline is also part of the reason that certain forms of stress can boost the immune system and help fight off the flu. A study on rats explains how someone injured in a car wreck can still manage to save other people.
When Helen Smith had a heart attack at age 37, she was in shock. She was young, healthy and in tip-top shape. There'd been no warning signs. She had no family history of heart disease.
If you want to find a job that is free of stress, you're out of luck. Only characters in movies and on TV have jobs that don't cause occasional hair-pulling or high blood pressure.
A work spouse is a co-worker of the opposite sex with whom you have a close platonic relationship. In many ways, these relationships can mirror a real marriage.
Pressure from his canceled sitcom Back to You contributed to his health woes, he says
The stress from deepening debt is becoming a major pain in the neck -- and the back and the head and the stomach -- for millions of Americans
If you've got five minutes, you have enough time to try one of these stress busters. What are you waiting for? Try one now!
The number of U.S. military personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder jumped 47 percent in 2007 according to new statistics -- a change the Pentagon attributed to greater awareness and better record-keeping.
Bangalore has a suicide rate three times the national average. The workplace stress in India's booming corporate sector may be taking a psychological toll
A groundbreaking new study helps explain why some people succumb to post-traumatic stress disorder while others don't
Some people bring unexpected lightness and comfort to your life. They crackle with energy, practically electrify you with their presence. And then there are those who leave you feeling stressed out. Or guilty. Or exhausted down to your very last molecule.
Why did you quit your last job - assuming you left voluntarily? According to a recent study of 93 big companies by human-resources consultants Watson Wyatt (www.watsonwyatt.com), the No. 1 reason why people quit is excessive stress. Yet employers seem unaware of this, or in denial: When asked why they thought employees were leaving, most HR managers gave insufficient pay and lack of career development, including promotions, as the main reasons.
A new study suggests that a mother's acute emotional stress during early pregnancy may increase her unborn baby's risk of developing schizophrenia later in life
Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marines' bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't shake, because he lived through it while deployed to Iraq last year.
Our company's wellness program invites employees to take an online risk-assessment survey provided by one of the nation's top clinics. I generally don't take those things because I like to fly high and tight, and if a piece of antiaircraft fire is coming my way, I don't really want to know about it. But it came to my attention that participants get a 10% reduction in the cost of their health insurance. Since that would bring my annual bill down to just below $40 billion, I decided to give it a shot.
Did Tatiana, the tiger that killed a zoo-goer on Christmas Day, attack for no reason? Did she have a bone to pick with men who taunted her? Or could it have been stress?
Students will learn about different types of stress and stressors and how the body responds to different types of stress. Students will identify ways to manage holiday stress.
RoseEllen Dowdell wakes up in the middle of the night, thinking about her sons, one in the military and one a firefighter. Kristina Zimmerman changes the channel when she hears of another soldier killed -- not wanting to worry about her husband, a military policeman.
We want to believe in the happily-ever-after. That when the troops come home to the local high school band playing, families waiting, flags waving, the worst is over and they are finally free to begin tending to their lives, families and lawns. Everything that the American dream and the flag they've fought under is all about.
On a spring morning in 1998, Dominic Orr woke up as he did every day, in the dark. While his children slept, he showered, checked his phone and e-mail messages, and drove from his Saratoga, Calif., home to a breakfast meeting nearby. When he emerged an hour or so later, he stopped cold.
Jennifer Lynch and Jennifer Gonzalez live nearly 900 miles apart. But they have much more in common than their first names: Each has three young children, each works outside the home and each admits she's stressed out.
Fourth-grade teacher Elisabeth Beckwith wants her students at Fernbank Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia, to pay attention to a lesson on Greek mythology.
Do you take care of someone in your family with a chronic medical illness or dementia? Have you felt depression, anger or guilt? Has your health deteriorated since taking on the responsibility of caregiving? If your answer is yes to any one of these, you may be suffering from caregiver stress.
Feeling frazzled? Try these proven strategies for controlling stress (instead of letting stress control you).
A new study shows soaring rates of child abuse and neglect in military families after a parent's deployment
Patients aren't the only ones harmed by medical errors, according to a survey released Wednesday that found many doctors who make mistakes -- and even those who come close -- suffer stress, sleep problems and loss of confidence
More American women are closer to combat in Iraq than in any other modern war, and there are many unknowns about the mental health effects they may experience when they come home from the war zone.
A year after coming home from Iraq, AJ Jefferson is still fighting the war in eerie nightmares about the bomb that left him and two comrades seriously wounded.
The latest Pentagon survey assessing the mental health of troops in Iraq found one-third of soldiers and Marines in high levels of combat report anxiety, depression and acute stress.
Dr. Thomas Perls is the founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world. As one of the nation's leading gerontologists, Perls also runs the Web site http://www.livingto100.com/, which allows visitors to assess their life expectancy.
Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes.
Chinese managers report more stress than workers, according to an Internet poll of nearly 4,000 people conducted last fall by Fortune China in conjunction with Beijing EAPs Consulting.
Amanda Baggs, a 26-year-old woman with autism, became a bit of an Internet sensation after she posted videos she made about how someone with autism experiences reality.
For Natalie, it started in high school. She had always been a hearty eater, but increasingly, when life got stressful, she turned to food for comfort.
I have close, meaningful relationships with espresso brownies, cold beer, and reruns of "The West Wing." Until recently, it hadn't occurred to me that these paramours are, in fact, three of the major players in my stress-management strategy. Hey, I wasn't even aware I had a stress-management strategy.
There's more than one way to overindulge during the holiday season. You can carol until you get a sore throat, or scarf too many cookies at the office party. You can stress over the perfect prime rib, or try to work off 5 pounds in a day so you can fit into that slinky cocktail dress that night.
If finding the right amount of time for work, family and fun in your life turns into more of a juggling act than a balancing act, you're not alone.
The news of four soldiers accused of murders and rape in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, brings up issues that are often linked, but should not be -- "stress" and "crime."
Air travelers are more likely to suffer from stress and anxiety or find themselves displaying "air rage" than experiencing dehydration, extreme fatigue or nausea, according to a survey on in-flight health problems.
As senior manager of FedEx's bustling Anchorage hub, Dale Shaw oversees hundreds of employees who unload and sort up to 13,400 parcels per hour arriving from Taipei, Pudong and Hong Kong, and bound, that same day, for hubs in Memphis, Newark, and Los Angeles.
The holidays are supposed to be a happy time for children -- they're on vacation, they get to hang out with their friends and they can sleep in late. Unfortunately, not all kids are in good cheer. Like many adults, children and teenagers can get stressed during the holidays.
The white coats of cardiologists are a regular fixture for heart patients, but more and more, the furry coats of man's best friends might become a common sight.
Scientists from Johns Hopkins University have discovered that Viagra, Pfizer's treatment for erectile dysfunction, could also be used to reduce stress that can lead to heart attacks.
If you feel like you work all the time, that may be because you do.
Driving to work can be extremely stressful -- and unhealthy. A stress-management expert tells six ways to calm down and protect your sanity.
Come on, admit it. You've fallen victim to workplace stress at one time or another. You've probably even called in sick because of a stress-related illness.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I feel like I'm on a treadmill. I'm in my early 40s and earn a decent salary, but it's a high-stress job and the stress is killing me.
Sheep have shown researchers why stressed-out people are comforted by the sight of a friendly face.
We just moved into our new digs at CNN Financial News. Are you gearing up for a move? If so, you'll want to think twice before you put all your worldly goods in the hands of a stranger.
As the world's major hubs become bogged down with more security checks and with more travelers returning to the skies, jet stress is being driven to new heights.
A South Carolina psychiatrist said Wednesday he will immediately start recruiting patients after winning approval to conduct the first study testing MDMA -- better known as ecstasy -- as a therapeutic tool.
How does Mother Nature hedge her bets when the economy heads south? It could be by stocking up on baby girls. According to a new study by Ralph Catalano, professor of public health at the Universi...
For John Haughom, it started about two years ago.
Has there ever been a success story in which plain dumb luck didn't play a part? If so, it's news to us. CEO Jim Clifton is the first to admit that in 1999, when the Gallup Organization began its f...
War, stock market blowouts, unemployment, terrorist alerts--there's no question that life in America has been stressful lately. Says Michael Faenza, ceo of the National Mental Health Association: "...
Stress has become part of everyday life--40% of U.S. workers feel it on the job--but not all stress is bad. Most of my patients would be bored to tears without stressful challenges in their lives. ...
Two hours after too much Vindaloo chicken and beer at lunch, the chest still feels oddly tight. The fingers of the left hand tingle slightly. That sharp shooting pain above the diaphragm has subsid...
Last month, a MONEY staff member received what appeared to be an attractive offer. According to the letter (reprinted below) holders of a new Chase Manhattan Stress-Free Platinum MasterCard wouldn'...
That which does not kill me makes me stronger" may have been the most fatheaded thing Nietzsche ever said--I guess he never flew from Bangkok to New York in a middle seat in economy--but in a gener...
Come on now, tell the truth. When things get tense at the office, what weird things do you do to try to relax (preferably with the door closed)? Accountemps, a temporary-staffing service, asked 150...
I'LL NEVER GET a heart attack. Not me. Maybe that pasty-faced guy in sales who always looks so tired. And that blimp-in-a-suit who ate all the French fries at lunch today and had pie for dessert. H...
WHAT WE DON'T understand about stress could fill volumes. And it does. Some books say stress is an invigorating tonic; others, that it's lethal. Stress stands implicated in practically every compla...
Corporate America worries a lot about stress. Studies portentously estimate that it costs U.S. industry maybe $150 billion a year. Hundreds of companies offer programs to help employees manage it. ...
BY NOW MANY health-conscious Americans can readily reel off the four main risk factors commonly associated with heart disease: a high cholesterol level, a diet heavy in saturated fats, high blood p...
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