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Friday, October, 23, 2009

Resilience In Coping With Stress

Health Encyclopedia: Stress Complications

Complications


In prehistoric times, the physical changes in response to stress were an essential adaptation for meeting natural threats. Even in the modern world, the stress response can be an asset for raising levels of performance during critical events such as a sports activity, an important meeting, or in situations of actual danger or crisis.

If stress becomes persistent and low-level, however, all parts of the body's stress apparatus (the brain, heart, lungs, vessels, and muscles) become chr...

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Expert & Community Posts

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Hormones & Vulnerability to Stress
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...and lifestyle have a powerful effect on a person's coping mechanisms and even if you have been... Read more »

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A Brief History of the term Stress
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...second stage, called ‘resistance', involves ways of coping with the alarm stage by trying to... Read more »

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New Stock Market Terms Provide Laughter...but Stress Is Real
By Amy Hendel , Health Expert

...back and face your reality.  And that reality is stressing a lot of people.   Stress affects... Read more »

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Another Reason Why Stress is Bad for Us
By Christine Miller , Health Expert

...from others, organizing and simplifying your life) Coping strategies (e.g. focusing on the... Read more »

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Problem Behaviors in Mid-to-Late Stage Alzheimer's
By Christine Kennard , Health Expert

...personality prior to the disease, their old styles of coping, old habits then expressed in more... Read more »

Health Guide

Resilience To Stress Plays Role in Depression
"An individual’s emotional response to severe, acute stress (e.g., trauma, terrorist acts) or to more prolonged chronic stress (e.g., divorce, war-time torture) is determined by genetic and... Read more »
Stress Part 7: Finding the Life That Fits
...and take a longer time resetting to normal than our more resilient neighbors. Next thing, we're not coping.Depression, mania, anxiety, irrational thinking, alcoholism, drug use, eating disorders,... Read more »
Stress Part II: When the Brain Overreacts
...the world may seem threatening most of the time. In short, we are living in a constant state of stress. We are living in our emotions. The thinking parts of the brain are in thrall to the... Read more »
Asthma and Stress Management
Stress can wreck havoc on your health. And if you have asthma, you no doubt know that stress can cause asthma symptoms. The signs and symptoms of stress range from the benign to the dramatic – from... Read more »
Stress: Risk Factors
...lives virtually everyone will experience stressful events or situations that overwhelm their natural coping mechanisms. In one poll, 89% of respondents indicated that they had experienced serious... Read more »

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