How Stress Impacts Your Health and Wellness
Excessive stress can have various negative impacts on your well-being. Discover the health conditions that stress can trigger and ways to prevent and control them.
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How to Respond to Psychogenic Fever
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Can You Have a Delayed Reaction to Grief?
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Strategies to Reduce Recidivism
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Yes, Stress Really Can Make You Sick —Here's Why
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What Is Food Insecurity?
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Can Stress Cause Lightheadedness?
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What Causes Chest Pressure During Stress?
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Can Stress Cause Anemia?
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The Link Between Stress and Migraines
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Can Stress Cause Vertigo?
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What’s The Relationship Between Grief and Stress?
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Can Stress Raise Cholesterol?
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What Is the Gut-Brain Axis?
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Can Stress Cause Back Pain?
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Hormetic Stress: Why This Form of Stress Can Actually Be Good for You
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Learning Brain vs. Survival Brain: What's the Difference?
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Is Face Twitching a Symptom of Stress?
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How Does Stress Impact the Immune System?
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Healthy Habits to Prevent and Reduce High Blood Pressure
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Low Income and Its Effects on Mental Health
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Does Stress Affect Blood Sugar?
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What Is Post-Abortion Stress Syndrome?
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Why You May Be Carrying Stress in Your Shoulders and Neck
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How Stress Affects the Vagus Nerve
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What Is Toxic Stress?
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Understanding Stress and Neck Pain
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What Is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
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Does Stress Cause Grey or White Hair?
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Can Stress Cause Cancer?
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What Is Allostatic Load?
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10 Signs You May Be Overstressed
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Physiological Symptoms of Stress
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What to Do When Life Feels Out of Control
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Acute Stress Disorder—What to Know About This *Intense* Stress After Trauma
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Why Am I Having Racing Thoughts at Night?
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Mental Health Effects Facing Recently Released Prisoners
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How to Deal With Adult Bullying
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Denial as a Defense Mechanism
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Here's How to Optimize Your Space For Better Mental Health
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The Connection Between Cleanliness and Mental Health
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How Does Your Environment Affect Your Mental Health?
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Is Masturbation Good for Your Mental Health?
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How to Stop Crying
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How Prolonged Stress Impacts Your Health
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Mental Health Effects of Reading Negative Comments Online
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What Is Irritability?
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Understanding Stress Cardiomyopathy
How to Stop Overthinking
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The Mental Health Effects of Being in Prison
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How the Five Stages of Grief Can Help Process a Loss
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What Is Dysphoria?
What Is Chronic Sleep Deprivation?
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How Stress Works With and Against Your Memory
What Is Cortisol?
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Understanding Stress and Temporal Arteritis
Common Signs and Symptoms of Too Much Stress
Hair Loss From Stress: Why It Happens and What You Can Do
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How Your Stress Response Works
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How Women Can Relieve Stress and Stay Healthy
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What Is Rumination?
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What Does It Mean to Be Anal-Retentive?
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How Anxiety Affects Health and Longevity
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How Stress Can Cause Weight Gain