Archive for August, 2007

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• 10 Tips to Build Resilience
  1. Make connections. Good relationships with close family members, friends, or others are important. Accepting help and support from those who care about you and will listen to you strengthens resilience. Some people find that ...
• What is Resilience?
  Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress -- such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial ...
• Types of Stress
  Stress management can be complicated and confusing because there are different types of stress -- acute stress, episodic acute stress, and chronic stress -- each with its own characteristics, symptoms, duration, and treatment approaches. Let's ...
• Take Control of Your Anger
  Everybody gets angry, but out-of-control rage isn't good for those around you, and it plays havoc with your own body. Here are some tips to help you 'simmer down.' Relaxation Simple relaxation tools such as deep breathing ...
• Six Myths About Stress
  Stress is a part of our lives and there's no getting around it. But as much as we all live with it, many of us misunderstand some of the basics about stress and its role ...
• Frequently Asked Questions about Sexuality
  Q. What Is My Sexual Orientation? Sexual orientation is an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual, or affectional attraction toward others. It is easily distinguished from other components of sexuality including biological sex, gender identity (the psychological sense ...
• 10 Tips to Build Resilience in Teens and Young Adults
  The ads make it look so easy to be a teen -- everyone seems to be laughing, hanging out with friends, wearing exactly the right clothes. But if you're a young adult, you know that ...
• Resilience and Disease
  The news about SARS and other contagious diseases can be frightening. Reports focusing on the most sensational aspects of SARS and other contagious diseases have escalated people's anxiety, and it can be hard to separate ...
• More Tips for Coping with Stress
  Most people have felt stress at one point in their lives. Sometimes it’s brief and highly situational, like being in heavy traffic. Other times, it’s more persistent and complex -- relationship problems, an ailing family ...
• A Brief Overview of Traumatic Stress
  People who experience or witness horrible events such as school shootings, combat, rape, torture, natural disasters, accidents or other things in which their physical safety and life -- or the safety and life of others ...
• Learning More About Obesity
  Obesity is one of the nation’s fastest-growing and most troubling health problems. Unless you act to address the emotions behind why you overeat, you could be facing long-term problems. Obesity is one of the nation’s fastest-growing ...
• Coping with Job Stress
  Jobs and careers are an important part of our lives. Along with providing a source of income, they help us fulfill our personal aims, build social networks, and serve our professions or communities. They are ...
• Healthy Living to Prevent Heart Disease
  You might think heart disease is linked only with physical activities -- a lack of exercise, poor diet, smoking, and excessive drinking. While these habits do heighten the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, ...
• Dealing with Stress
  What is causing people the most stress? A recent survey by the American Psychological Association said the following issues are the top vote getters: 63% of those surveyed said money issues; 44% said national security; and 31% said ...
• How to Help Someone Suffering from a Chronic Illness
  If someone you love is diagnosed with cancer or a life-threatening disease, you may feel desperate and completely helpless. But it doesn't have to be that way. Research has shown us that family and friends can ...
• How Does Stress Affect Us?
  The subject of stress has become a favorite subject of everyday conversation. It is not unusual to hear ourselves talk with friends, coworkers, and family members about the difficulty we have with managing the stress ...
• Exercise Helps Keep Stress at Bay
  Exercise may improve mental health by helping the brain cope better with stress, according to research into the effect of exercise on neurochemicals involved in the body's stress response. Preliminary evidence suggests that physically active people ...
• Caring for an Elder Parent
  A combination of trends is sparking heightened interest in generational issues. For one thing, people are simply living longer due to advances in medicine and preventive health. It's more common today, as opposed to 50 ...
• A Brief Overview of Eating Disorders
  In a society that continues to prize thinness even as Americans become heavier than ever before, almost everyone worries about their weight at least occasionally. People with eating disorders take such concerns to extremes, developing ...
• Coping with the Death of a Coworker
  Our co-workers are very much like an extended family. We spend most of our waking hours with them, forging special bonds of trust and friendship that are unlike our other relationships. So it’s not surprising that ...
• Frequently Asked Questions about Serious Illness
  People often have questions about serious illness and what can be done to help a person emotionally when they are coping with a serious medical condition. Here are some answers. Q. How important is it to ...
• More Coping with Holiday Stress Tips
  The holidays can be fun, but they also can be a source of great stress — and no wonder. The holidays are often depicted as a magical time when people reconcile and dreams come true. How ...
• Controlling Anger Before It Controls You
  We all know what anger is, and we've all felt it, whether as fleeting annoyance or as full-fledged rage. Anger is a completely normal, and usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control ...
• Coping with Chronic Illness
  There are many types of chronic illness, from diabetes and AIDS to arthritis and persistent fatigue. While medical science has made great strides in developing effective treatments for the physical effects of these diseases, many ...
• How Your Mind Can Help Your Body with Breast Cancer
  Each year 185,000 women in this country learn that they have breast cancer. Because less than a quarter of them have genetic or other known risk factors, the diagnosis often comes as a devastating surprise. ...