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What does the latest research say about stress? This page has some recent discoveries on stress, and some of the ways it can affect you. Stay informed about stress and its effects, and you’ll be better equipped to manage and avoid excessive stress in your life!
Workplace Humor: A Cause and a Cure for Workplace Stress
Workplace humor can reduce stress and contribute to a more fun and enjoyable work environment. Unfortunately, it can also be a source of alienation and even litigation! Learn more about the offensive office humor people experience, and find tips on how to be funny at the office without causing offense with inappropriate office humor.
Parents and Depression: Who's At Risk And Why?
Recent research has shown that parents are more likely than non-parents to suffer from symptoms of depression. Also, learn who's more and less likely to experience depression: non-custodial parents, parents of minors, parents of small children, mothers, fathers, married parents, single parents, parents of adult children, and others. Learn more about these findings, discover some of the reasons behind this, and find resources to help manage parental stress and stay emotionally healthy.
Stress Management: A Natural Way To Avoid Colds and the Flu, and Stay Healthy
You may be getting flu shots, taking vitamins and washing your hands, but practicing stress management techniques is an important and all-natural way to stay healthy during cold and flu season and avoid more serious health problems year round. Learn more about how stress can affect your health, the link between stress and sickness, and what you can do to avoid illness and stay healthier.
Stress, Humor and Health: How Laughter Can Reduce Stress and Increase Health
Research shows that laughter has some amazing health benefits. Laughing can relieve stress, increase pain tolerance and support the immune system, as well as serve several other healthy purposes. Learn more about the positive effects of laughter and how to use humor to relieve tension, manage stress and improve overall health and well-being.
Fun Stress Polls: A Fun Way to Check Public Opinion
What stresses you the most? How cluttered is your home? (And everyone else's?) Relieve stress by taking a few minutes to ask yourself some fun questions, and compare answers with thousands of others. Here's a list of fun stress polls from Elizabeth Scott at About's Stress Management Site.
Caffeine, Stress and Your Health: Is Caffeine Your Friend or Your Foe?
Caffeine is a drug, popularly consumed in coffee, tea, soft drinks and, in smaller doses, chocolate. While we seem to have a love affair with these products, there’s been quite a bit of confusion and even controversy surrounding caffeine lately. Is it good or bad for us? Here’s a brief tutorial on caffeine, and some surprising answers to these questions.
Stress Management and Pets: How Owning a Dog or Cat Can Reduce Stress
You may have heard that pets can reduce stress, and that cats reduce stress as well as dogs do. Did you know that having a dog or cat can significantly reduce the amount of stress you feel in your body, lower your blood pressure, increase the exercise you get, reduce loneliness and depression, and offer other health benefits? Learn more about the stress management and health benefits of pet ownership, and see if owning a dog or cat is the right choice for you!
Stress Research
Here you’ll find a whole slew of studies on stress and its effects on the body and brain, different ways men and women cope, and more. Enjoy!
The Effects of Stress and Psychological Disorders on The Immune System
Here’s an amazingly thorough research paper analyzing many aspects of stress and its effects on the immune system, including what cognitive coping strategies are less effective, what conditions can be caused by stress, and more.
The Latest Research on Stress and Stroke Risk
Does stress make you more susceptible to having a stroke? This study examines the possible link, and illustrates why effective coping is important.
The Lion Tamer
This article from Psychology Today discusses the latest research and treatment of anger, its roots, and how to better deal with it. Going beyond the traditional therapies, some of which may actually exacerbate the problem of uncontrolled anger, this new and compassionate model shows a lot of promise, and could be helpful for you in managing anger, which is closely liked with stress.
Work Stress, Family Stress
This is a nice summary of research on how men and women are affected by the two types of stress, and how changing roles influence the stress we experience. Interesting findings!
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