More Tips for a Better Mental Health
7 Tips for Eliminating Telephone Stress
Recent research has shown that the most stressful aspect of domestic and social life is the telephone. The markers of stress - blood pressure, hormonal changes, etc - are increased more by telephones ringing repeatedly while trying to work than by any other aspect of office or home life.
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7 Tips for Stress-Free Holidays
Plan the holiday with as much care as the generals planned D-Day. Choose a destination that is easy to reach. If you are already worn out, why plan a holiday in the Andes? If you spend your life driving around the country as a sales director, don't drive an extra two or three thousand miles in your three weeks away.
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Causes of Stress - Family and Finance
The greatest source of stress in a family is financial. When people first marry, they share not only a bed but a bank account as part of the new, 'great togetherness'. What a mistake!
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How Stress Controls the Nervous System
The autonomic nervous system - that part of the nervous system that works without conscious intervention - controls the body's essential organs: the heart, the blood vessels, and the other bodily functions including the intestines, the bladder, the lungs (these are also partially under voluntary control), the sweat glands and flushing. Whenever humans are stressed, it is these organs and bodily systems that are alerted and prepared for the flight or fight response.
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How Stressed Are You?
When people are aware of being stressed, they should make efforts to manage it. If motivated by the thought of reducing the dangerous effects of stress on the heart and cardiovascular system, the amount of will-power and insight needed will depend on their age.
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How to Have A Stress-Free Dinner Party
Prepare as much of the meal as possible in advance. Set the table the day before. Take time to sort out the most agreeable seating arrangement. Try to avoid potentially quarrelsome or competitive pairings. Two generals together will have a good talk if they meet professionally and get along well together.
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How to Recognize Dietary Symptoms of Stress
Has your appetite changed? Have you ever been so anxious that you feel you will choke if you have to swallow another mouthful, however delicious the food? A common manifestation of stress is a problem in swallowing created by having a meal with someone you find over-poweringly sexually attractive.
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How to Recognize Dietary Symptoms of Stress
Has your appetite changed? Have you ever been so anxious that you feel you will choke if you have to swallow another mouthful, however delicious the food? A common manifestation of stress is a problem in swallowing created by having a meal with someone you find over-poweringly sexually attractive.
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Simple Steps to Stress-Free Entertaining at Home
For years, advertisements on television set an impossibly high standard for social entertaining, implanting false expectations of the fun and jollity that should be within the grasp of those who attend dinner parties, race meetings, dances, evenings in the pub and boisterous gatherings at the local yacht club.
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Stress and Common Gastrointestinal Disorders
For generations, stress was blamed for duodenal and gastric ulcers. It is now known that the principle cause of these diseases is infection with an organism known as Helicobacter pylori, and not the result of suffering in silence for years from the burdens of a pressurized and put-upon life.
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Stress at Work – Lateral Promotion
One of the many causes of stress in patients who consult doctors working in industry is the type that experienced by people who haven't received the recognition and promotion they feel is justified by their qualities. Promotion in any firm always entails a large element of luck. It is sometimes influenced by bad luck, and at other times by sheer vindictiveness or self-interest of more senior people in the organization.
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Stress Caused by Noisy Neighbours
Of all the hazards that must be avoided when moving house, that of noisy neighbors is near the top of the list of potential stress factors. After a day at work, peace and quiet, preferably both indoors and out, are essential. For this reason, visits to the planning office, chats with potential neighbors, a study of local papers and a rigorous insistence that all the questions are fully answered on the estate agent's questionnaire are essential. Even so, people can get caught out.
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Symptoms of Anxiety
Those who suffer from excessive anxiety are not necessarily Type A Personality people. Instead, they are very often highly strung, introspective, aesthetic people whose journey through life is a battle.
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The Classic Signs of Depression
The human mind is always adept at protecting itself, subconsciously redirecting anxieties and fears away from the psyche and onto some physical symptom that unconsciously becomes exaggerated.
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Tips for a Stress-Free Retirement
Plan for your retirement on all fronts, financial and otherwise. Don't let it creep up unawares. If possible, retire gradually and use the time gained from partial retirement to rekindle intellectual interests.
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Walking as Stress Relief
It’s hard to beat brisk walking so far as exercise is concerned. The pace should be brisk enough to cause slight breathlessness, but not so strenuous that conversation, although difficult, becomes impossible.
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What You Should Know about Eating Disorders
Among the emotional and psychological conditions that are associated with stress, often of a very subtle sort, are eating disorders. Not only obesity, but problems such as also anorexia nervosa and bulimia often have a psychological base. The exact relationship between personality type and these diseases is contentious, but undoubtedly stress is a factor in them.
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What You Should Know About Panic Attacks
One aspect of stress is the increased liability to panic attacks and other panic disorders. Panic attacks are short-lived episodes of acute anxiety. Even if they only last for a comparatively short time, they are enough to leave the patient feeling mentally and physically exhausted.
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What You Should Know about Phobias
A phobia is an especially strong fear that is triggered by some specific event or thing. There are a great number of phobias, but most people are aware of agoraphobia (a fear of open spaces or crowds) and claustrophobia (a fear of confined spaces). In both instances the patient is unable to see a ready route for escape.
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What You Should Know about Stress and Depression
Stress may trigger depression, anxiety or both of these. In all those who are depressed there is always an element of anxiety. Likewise, it is unusual for those who are anxious not to have some symptoms of depression. Even so, when considering patients' symptoms, an attempt should be made to separate the two groups of symptoms, as many of them are equally likely to be a feature of either condition.
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