Stress Articles

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• Total Relaxation: Healing Practices for Body, Mind & Spirit
  Who among us could not use a little more relaxation in our lives?  Especially since Americans as a whole seem to have forgotten how to incorporate active rest into the quotidian, relying instead on mindless ...
• Mystic Cool
  Don J. Goewey subtitles his book “a proven approach to transcend stress, achieve optimal brain function, and maximize your creative intelligence.” However, a more appropriate choice may have been “the missing owner’s manual for your ...
• Holiday Feasts and Family Misbehavior
  My friend Jemm was close to tears when she called today. She’d invited the whole “fam damily” as she called it to come for ...
• Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover
  We all have to interact with people we don’t get along with at some point in our lives.  Sometimes, those people are so emotionally intense, anxious, and self-absorbed that the only word that accurately describes ...
• Getting Around To It: Causes and Cures for Student Procrastination
  I had to laugh at myself. While thinking about doing an article on procrastination, I looked like a classic ...
• My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
  I'm a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff ...
• The Second Half of the Semester
  Midterms are over and you are now confronted with the state of your grades. Maybe you did okay or even more than ...
• Supporting Individuals with Depression: The Importance of Self-Care
  Depression is a disorder that affects millions of people. While we all experience ups and downs, depression is different. Often accompanied ...
• The Pocket Therapist
  Therapists are an unusual bunch.  We spend all day listening, cautioning, affirming, and putting out fires with clients who are feeling out of control, suicidal, despairing, or wildly stress-ridden.  By the end of ...
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
  “Humans suffer, in part, because they are verbal creatures.” So says Steven Hayes, PhD, authors of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. We, as humans, learn specific names for specific things and we ...
• Job Stress Linked To Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Researchers have found new links between stress at work and risk of rheumatoid arthritis. It seems that low levels of job-related control may increase the risk, but high demands may actually be protective. A ...
• So Stressed: The Ultimate Stress-Relief Plan for Women
  In the self-help guide for stress reduction, authors Stephanie McClellan, M.D. and Beth Hamilton, M.D. give an in-depth description of the short- and long-term effects of chronic stress and suggestions on how to better cope ...
• The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life
  Quick.  Answer this: “To be happy and content, my annual income would need to be $___________.”  David Krueger M.D. and John David Mann, authors of The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions ...
• The Pursuit of Perfect
  Positive psychology.  Just the simple joining of these two terms is enough to summon up hopefulness in a field some see in a negative light.  In his book, The Pursuit of Perfect, author Tal Ben-Shahar, ...
• Got An Angry Kid? Parenting Spike: A Seriously Difficult Child
  Search Barnes and Noble or Amazon for self-help books on “child discipline” and over 8,000 titles show up. Eight thousand! You can find magic 1-2-3, positive discipline, discipline without tears, how to discipline with one ...
• When You’re Not in the Path of a Hurricane
  Even if you were not directly affected by the hurricanes, you may experience a sense of vulnerability from witnessing the results of the disaster. This can be especially acute if a relative or friend was affected ...
• Managing Stress After a Hurricane
  It is common for people to experience very strong emotional reactions with the arrival of a hurricane and its accompanying damage to homes and community infrastructures. If you are experiencing distress in the wake of ...
• Emotionally Prepare for a Hurricane
  Preparing for and anticipating the arrival of a large-scale hurricane can be distressing for people living in the hurricane’s path. There may be uncertainty ahead about your living arrangements, work and other important life factors, ...
• Top 10 Daily Habits To Keep Depression Away
  There are certain things that, done regularly, help keep my depression symptoms at bay. Some are very familiar while others ...
• Three Faces of Depression
  Is depression a single thing? It seems to me that depression has many faces. One of the fascinating segments of my job as a private tutor ...
• Replacing Your Negative Thoughts
  Negative thought replacement is a method for reducing the amount of depressive thoughts in a person's mind. In the first article of this series, ...
• Depression and Letting Go of Negative Thoughts
  When negative thoughts hit your brain, it's tempting to struggle with them and try to shove a more positive thought in there. ...
• Becoming Aware of Your Depressive Thoughts
  When you are in a really down mood, the negative thoughts just keep firing one after another. No matter what happens, these ...
• Stop Fast-Forwarding Your Depression Healing
  "You were such a happy baby," my mom told me on the eve of my 21st birthday. "I'd come into your room in ...
• Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder
  As an educator, I’ve become more and more convinced of the huge need for better information and openness about all kinds of ...