Stress has multiple damaging effects on your mental and physical health. Furthermore, neuroscientists have discovered that stress could even inhibit your ability to learn!
Date Posted: January 12, 2017
Categories: Stress Management
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Are you the majority who cannot do your job well and stress out easily without email? A new study shows how personality differences affect how we use email and what we find stressful.
Jan 9
Categories: Stress Management
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There are many work-related problems that crop up as a result of work stress. These are similar to stress experienced outside of the workplace (i.e., involving physical, psychological, or behavioural reactions). Employees complain about and/or ...
Jan 4
Categories: Stress Management
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You shouldn't underestimate the positive power of having a degree of stress in your life. Identifying the tipping point, where stress turns to burnout, is the key.
Dec 22
Categories: Stress Management
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The stress hormone cortisol strengthens memories of scary experiences. However, it is effective not only while the memory is being formed for the first time, but also later when people look back at an experience while the memory reconsolidates. ...
Dec 8
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD, Stress ...
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Stress is inevitably common in our lives and everyone equip a different coping strategy to deal with stressful events deemed fit for themselves. Some people may use coping strategies more than others. There are three techniques for keeping ...
Nov 25
Categories: Stress Management
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The objective of this research is to evaluate stress level and identify coping skills
among students of Universiti Malaysia Sabah according to their ethnicity. A
total of 252 subjects were involved in this research which ...
Nov 15
Categories: Academic Issues, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Stress Management
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The type of fat you eat matters, but a new study suggests that the benefits of good fats vanish when stress enters the picture. This study is the first to show that stress has the potential to cancel out benefits of choosing healthier fats.
Oct 22
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Health Psychology, Stress ...
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When there’s a lot on the line - a big presentation or a tough negotiation - some people manage to stay cool under pressure, while others have a meltdown. In a new study, a team of psychological scientists from Texas A&M University examined ...
Oct 15
Categories: Personality problems, Stress Management
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Imagine two candidates at a high stakes job interview. One of them handles the pressure with ease and sails through the interview. The other candidate, however, feels very nervous and under-performs.
Why do some people perform better than others ...
Sep 2
Categories: Child Development, Stress Management
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In today's increasingly high-paced world, stress has become part and parcel of our lives. It is well-known that chronic stress and depression are detrimental to our well-being and we are often able to tell its physical manifestation in a loved one ...
Aug 15
Categories: Stress Management
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Making art lowers the levels of stress hormones in your body, a new study finds.
Jun 17
Categories: Art Therapy, Stress Management
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Being in control feels safe, but you can feel safe when you’re not in control too. The world is unpredictable and your power is limited, so feeling safe without control is a valuable skill.
Jun 9
Categories: Happiness, Stress Management
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An unfortunate side effect of the biological revolution of psychiatry is in perceiving emotional discomfort as undesirable or bad, something we shouldn't feel, something that can be medicated away. And while medications can be life-saving and ...
Jun 8
Categories: Anxiety, Stress Management
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A study has demonstrated that attending a public cultural event can induce a measurable effect on an individual's internal hormone levels. The "stress hormone" - cortisol - was reduced across the board, among other intriguing changes.
Apr 13
Categories: Stress Management
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Depression will be a major mental health illness Malaysians will suffer from by 2020.
Malaysian Psychiatric Association president Prof Dr Nor Zuraida Zainal said this was because more people are expected to experience increased stress due to work ...
Mar 24
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Stress Management
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