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Health Encyclopedia: Stress Risk Factors
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Risk Factors
At some point in their 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 stress in their lives. Some people are simply biologically prone to stress. Many outside factors influence susceptibility as well.
Conditions Most Likely To Produce Stress-Related Health Problems. Conditions that are most likely to be associated with stress and negative...
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Expert & Community Posts
Depression in Men
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert...six people, one will be clinically diagnosed with depression. In real terms the figures for... Read more »
Anxiety: A Close Companion to Depression
By Deborah Gray , Health ExpertI wrote in an earlier blog piece that depression seems to bring other disorders with it more often... Read more »
My Depression Connection Question of the Week!
By Merely Me , Health Expert...question for you this week is...Do you feel that your depression has affected your physical... Read more »
What to Do When Your Partner is Depressed
By Deborah Gray , Health Expert...really has nothing to do with you. Your partner's depression is coloring his perceptions of... Read more »
Genital Herpes and Depression
By Charlotte Grayson, M.D. , Health Expert... Most say that they feel utterly alone. This is depression. Depression affects around 19... Read more »
Health Guide
You Cant Be Happy All the Time!
...on the body's ability to fight off illness it became quite clear that chronic stress, anxiety, and depression had the ability to suppress immune function. It was a natural extension of this... Read more »Bipolar Disorder: Minfulness Part 1
...These needed to be picked up much earlier, they reported, than what their doctors recommended. Once depression or hypomania picked up a full head of steam, it was already way too late. Instead,... Read more »Alzheimer's Facts- From the Alzheimer's Assocation
...the diagnostic workup is to determine whether symptoms may be due to a condition other than dementia. Depression, medication side effects, certain thyroid conditions, excess use of alcohol and... Read more »The First 48 Hours: Insomnia
...you have lapses in memory. Prolonged insomnia and the resultant sleep deprivation can lead to depression and other serious mental problems. Physically, lack of sleep weakens the immune... Read more »Alzheimer's Disease -- FAQs
...the caregiverWhat other conditions have symptoms like Alzheimer's disease? Tumors, strokes, severe depression, thyroid problems, medication side effects, nutritional disorders, and certain... Read more »Images
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When Does Cancer Equal Depression?
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Sleepless Nights Complicate Depression
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Depression and Artery Disease
February 12, 2007(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When someone has the blues, missing out on the enjoyment of life isn't the only negative. Depression can also harden arteries.... Read summary »
Depression Undiagnosed in Centenarians
November 28, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Centenarians are one of the fastest growing groups of Americans, yet little is known about their overall health. When... Read summary »
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