Stress Articles

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• 7 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
  Last month, we spoke with five incredibly successful bloggers and entrepreneurs who shared their secrets to getting ...
• The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals
  Kelly Lambert, PhD is undoubtedly in the right field. She has a passion for the laboratory and a knack for applying its lessons to daily life. The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life ...
• Predicting Happiness and Unhappiness: A Skill We Never Master
  Why do we have such a preoccupation with the future and the powerful range of feelings that ...
• 12 Ways Successful Bloggers, Entrepreneurs Stay Productive
  Full-time bloggers and entrepreneurs have to juggle a wide range of responsibilities. At Psych Central, we wanted to know ...
• Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older
  In the film Gigi, Maurice Chevalier sings about the advantages of aging in the song titled "I’m glad I’m not young anymore."  Wendy Lustbader would agree with him.  As she puts it in this book, ...
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
  This is an updated and revised version of the first edition of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, published over 30 years ago. Roger Fisher is the founding chair of the Harvard Negotiation ...
• Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
  Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, director of teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France. At the age of 5, he lost both of ...
• I Love You. Now Change.
  She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
• Train Your Brain to Get Happy
  It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life.  Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery.  Train Your ...
• The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life
  The Fatigue Prescription by Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., is subtitled Four steps to renewing your energy, health, and life. The book is divided into two parts:  the diagnosis and the “renewing remedy,” which the author ...
• Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us
  The word "terrorist" can call forth descriptors like "evil" or "crazy."  But ordinary people can be moved toward criminal and violent acts through circumstances that become progressively more extreme.  Psychologists Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko, ...
• Should You Consider Alternative Treatments for Anxiety Disorders?
  Anxiety disorders are one of the most common psychiatric disorders. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), ...
• Modeling Healthy Behavior for Your Children
  It is important to recognize that parents can do everything possible and still have a child fall into unhealthy behaviors. But ...
• Responding To Mental Illness in Your Workforce: Following the Law
  In Part 1 of this series, Leading a Culture Change, we talked about specific steps ...
• 8 Surprising Myths About Relationships
  There are hundreds of myths about relationships, according to Terri Orbuch, Ph.D, a Michigan clinical psychologist and author of ...
• A Band-Aid for a Marriage in Crisis
  Imagine a heavy-duty truck riding off the road, slipping down a hill and getting stuck in thick, sticky mud. Trying ...
• Responding To Mental Illness in Your Workforce: Leading a Culture Change
  As a leader in your organization, you’ve undoubtedly had to handle situations when you’ve been ...
• Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
  For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
• Five Ways To Create a Secure Attachment with Your Baby, Without Sharing Your Bed
  After giving birth the first time, I stayed home for three months, ...
• Recovering from Mental Illness? Be Your Own Best Friend
  The bad/sad news: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four adults -- ...
• How to Overcome Common Financial Pitfalls When You Have ADHD
  Having ADHD can make it difficult to manage your money. “People with ADHD have a higher rate ...
• Getting Ready To Rejoin the Workforce
  After six months on the job hunt following a layoff, you got so discouraged you gave up. Now the savings ...
• Overcoming Anxiety in Today’s Tough, Tuned-in, Plugged-in World
  Every era has its ups and downs — war, natural disasters, economic trouble, social problems and ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• Intimate Relationships As a Vehicle for Growth
  The old paradigm for couples was pretty simple: The man went to work, brought home the money and paid ...