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Monday, October 06, 2008
Preventing a Stress Meltdown amidst Economic Chaos
It sounds like a bad dream. Financial meltdown. Global markets in chaos. Government bails out banks and other financial institutions in worst crisis since the depression. Citizens watch as personal wealth plummets. What a roller coaster it’s been emotionally. Certainly there have been a few positive trends but lots of negatives that could mean serious consequences down the road. The questions start racing into a blur. What’s going to happen next? Is it time to get out? Have I really hit the bottom? Will I be able to recover if the numbers don’t improve quickly?
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Mental-Health Lines Buzz in U.S. Recession Depression
A tidal wave of anxiety is washing over America, from Wall Street’s concrete canyons to the lettuce fields of California, propelled by the mortgage industry collapse, costly gasoline, tight credit and rising unemployment.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Army Worried by Rising Stress of Return Tours
Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent back to the front again and again under plans that call for troop numbers to be sustained at high levels in Iraq for this year and beyond. Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four show signs of anxiety, depression or acute stress, according to an official Army survey of soldiers’ mental health.
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In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Downtime: It’s Enough to Make Some People Sick
Some Research Suggests Illness Goes Up When the Stress of Work Goes Down. Skeptics Are Immune to This Theory.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
There Are No Timeouts or Substitutes in Golf
Three years ago, at the lush and leafy K Club near Dublin, Ireland, Thomas Bjorn walked off the course in the middle of his round on the European Tour, saying he was fighting demons in his head. The golf course, with its thick trees and winding rivers, had all but suffocated him, Bjorn said. He did not want to take another swing.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Companies are tuning in to stress
Mike Giovanni works in a stressful environment. As a transport engineering manager for Verizon Wireless in Denver, he’s a technician tasked with maintaining and expanding the company’s cellphone network in the Rocky Mountain region. But when the stress becomes too much to bear, he uses relaxation techniques he perfected with a computer program.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Brain’s Resilience May Prevent Burnout
Our brains are designed to help us “power through.” Under stress, the brain signals to release hormones including adrenaline and cortisol. They give us energy, strengthen the immune system, improve reflexes and even help our memory. But if we are always under stress, the release of cortisol begins to work against us. Chronic stress causes neurons in the brain to shrink and change shape. In animals, that causes a loss of memory, increased anxiety and aggressiveness that can lead to signs of depression. Other research has shown how chronic stress can speed up aging and make us more prone to disease.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Fatigue in the Workplace Is Common and Costly
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. workers experience fatigue, a problem that carries billions of dollars in costs from lost productivity, according to a study in the January Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers analyzed data from a nationwide study of the relationship between health and productivity at work. Of the nearly 29,000 employed adults interviewed, 38 percent said they had experienced “low levels of energy, poor sleep, or a feeling of fatigue” during the past two weeks. With adjustment for other factors, fatigue was more common in women than men, in workers less than 50 years old, and in white workers compared with African-Americans. Workers with “high-control” jobs—relatively well-paid jobs with decision-making responsibility—also reported higher rates of fatigue.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Multiple deployments increase stress, study says
Soldiers who have deployed to Iraq more than once reported higher levels of acute stress symptoms than soldiers serving their first tours, according to an Army report released Tuesday. Those with multiple deployments also suffered slightly higher levels of anxiety or depression than their first-tour counterparts, but the findings also showed that it is now easier for soldiers to get help in theater and the stigma of seeking counseling is decreasing.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Study blames nurses’ health problems on stress, low autonomy, lack of respect
A new study has linked psychological factors like work stress, low autonomy and lack of respect to health problems among Canada’s 314,900 nurses, finding that many regularly work overtime and have more than one job. Statistics Canada found that the proportion of nurses who reported high stress at work was more than that among employed people overall. The researchers defined work stress as occurring when job responsibilities outpaced a worker’s ability to decide how to peform the tasks required of them. Nearly a third (31 per cent) of female nurses were classified as having high job strain while the figure for all employed women was 26 per cent. Job strain was strongly related to fair or poor physical and mental health, and to lengthy or frequent absences from work for health-related reasons.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Long work hours ‘can lead to diabetes’
Spending more than 60 hours a week at work doubles the risk of diabetes among young and middle-aged women, new research has found. Working long hours increases stress levels and those who put in more than 60 hours a week doubled the chances of getting Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the condition. And women who work 40 hours a week or more increase the risk by nearly 50 per cent compared to those who put in between 21 and 40 hours week. Single women were found to be more at risk than married women, because they worked the longer hours, drank more and smoked more, according to the report.
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Job Burnout May Make People More Prone to Developing Diabetes
An Israeli study suggests that people who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing a form of diabetes. The research, apparently the first of its kind, doesn’t definitively confirm a link between workplace stress and diabetes. But it does suggest that burnout could boost the risk of illness by a “magnitude similar to other risk factors, such as high body mass index, smoking and lack of physical exercise,” said study lead author Samuel Melamed, an associate professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Stress & Anxiety Disorders Survey
The majority of working Americans experience stress or anxiety in their daily lives - no surprise. However, ADAA learned from the survey that close to half of U.S. employees report experiencing persistent stress or excessive anxiety in their daily lives. And while only 9 percent of the respondents have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, 30 percent with everyday stress have taken prescription medication to manage stress and other emotional problems.
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