Tag: stress illness
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Good Vibrations
Read more: Good VibrationsPositive Vibes Really Do Protect Health (PsychCentral): An evidence-based review of published literature finds support for the premise that feeling good may be good for your health…“We all age. It is how we age, however, that determines the quality of our lives,” said Anthony Ong, Ph.D., of Cornell University, author of the review article. The…
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The Search for the Stress Vaccine
Read more: The Search for the Stress VaccineWired: Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine. The list of ailments connected to stress is staggeringly diverse and includes everything from the common cold and lower-back pain to Alzheimer’s disease, major depressive disorder, and heart attack. Stress hollows out our bones and atrophies our muscles. It triggers adult-onset diabetes and is a leading cause…
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Relationship Stress and Health
Read more: Relationship Stress and HealthA study to put no one at ease: Relationship Insecurity Ups Health Risk. Anxious attachment was positively associated with a wider range of health conditions, including some defined primarily by pain and several involving the cardiovascular system (e.g., stroke, heart attack or high blood pressure).
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Mind-Body MD
Read more: Mind-Body MDAn interview I did with L.A.-based mind-body doc, David Schechter, MD, is now up at PsychologyToday.com. When I saw this patient again a few weeks later, her pain had gone from a nine out of ten to a zero to one out of ten. She was making plans for future vacations, hotel beds, school, and…
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Knowledge v. Pain
Read more: Knowledge v. PainWebMD: Attitude, Knowledge Can Relieve Back Pain. “For most patients, psychological factors as well as beliefs, attitudes, and health literacy will also come into play,” he says. “We can tell patients to stay active, for example, but if they don’t believe exercise will help or if they fear activity will make their condition worse, they aren’t going…