Resilience In Coping With Stress
Health Encyclopedia: Stress Complications
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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
Hormones & Vulnerability to Stress
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A Brief History of the term Stress
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New Stock Market Terms Provide Laughter...but Stress Is Real
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Another Reason Why Stress is Bad for Us
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Health Guide
Resilience To Stress Plays Role in Depression
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...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 »Images
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