Whether you have a spouse, a domestic partner or just someone who is the current live-in love of your life, living with someone close can cause stress. Note, the ‘can’ not ‘must’. Interacting with someone with whom you have that kind of relationship introduces a variety of potential problems, but those don’t have to lead [...]
During the holiday season – Christmas, Hanukkah and others – people will often experience elevated levels of stress. But it need not be so.
There are, indeed, many pressures unique to the holiday season.
In many places, the weather makes it more difficult to get around and people are sometimes more physically uncomfortable. Those are minor in [...]
‘She drove me to drink’ used to be a popular phrase. Its essential meaning is that stress induces people to consume alcohol. While it’s true that stress can be an incentive to drink, it’s equally true that heavy alcohol consumption causes stress.
Moderate alcohol intake, to be sure, can have beneficial effects. Research suggests that small [...]
Being placed in situations that demand the impossible almost inevitably lead to stress. Unrealistic deadlines to meet useless goals, enforced by unreasonable managers – are an all too common scenario. But individuals who find themselves in such circumstances still have options.
There are a dozen small, stress-relieving exercises that can help ease the symptoms while working [...]
Working with people that have mental illnesses can be very challenging. I have been a social worker for many years. Part of my job is to help people access services within their community. At times this means bring services to the person or family with in home services and other times it means setting up [...]
Few things in life can lead to chronic stress as readily as parenting. But it need not be so. While raising children definitely requires more patience than any other activity, over a wider range of circumstances and for longer periods of time, it need not be a source of chronic stress. Challenges, yes. Stress, no.
Stress [...]
Contemporary society presents many circumstances that can encourage stress for teens. One of the chief potential stressors is often found right at home: parents.
That’s not to say parents cause teen stress. Even teens are self-responsible individuals, within the realm of actions open to them. And that’s the key to some of the sources of teen [...]
In the fast-paced world nearly everyone lives in today, stress is an ever-present possibility. Just-in-time manufacturing, instant news from around the world, computers and a host of other modern technologies are a great benefit. But along with them comes quicker deadlines, instant notification of bad news and more communication to deal with.
But no one is [...]
To most people ’stress’ brings to mind something unpleasant. But many psychologists write about stress as something that can have positive effects. Why the confusion? The reasons lie in how an individual evaluates his or her own mental and physical state.
Some examples may help to make the point clear. Imagine two people, one a champion [...]
If you are having problems with your short term memory, there may be many reasons why this is happening. There could be an underlying medical condition, but there are times when it is just that you aren’t using your mind enough. You may think just fine, but you might not be exercising your brain [...]