Being stressed out has become part of our everyday language. Fifty years ago, had you told someone you were stressed out, they wouldn’t have known what you were talking about and might even have questioned your knowledge of grammar! But that’s all changed. Rare is the individual today who doesn’t get stressed out at least [...]
It seems like the whole world has been really stressful lately. Stressful news, stress events in the world, everything seems to moving faster and faster. Modern life is permeated with stress. Families are now typically spread out all over the country. Most require two incomes just to get by and day care for children has [...]
Why is it that some people seem to get angry at the drop of a pin? Well I don’t know about you, but when I’ve been experiencing stress for days in a row I can become easily angered and snap at my daughter. It’s also even easier for me to yell at the guy in [...]
Anxiety is one of the most common mental disorders, affecting over 18% or 40 million adults age 18 and older in the United States. According to “The Economic Burden of Anxiety Disorders,” a study published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than $42 billion a year. This statistics show [...]
Her eyes had deep, dark circles. She told me, “I haven’t slept in weeks.” I asked her why. She responded that it was because she “was all stressed out.” It was stress from her job and stress from her kids. She was stressed out from driving an hour each way to work and her boss [...]
When the pressure is too intense or when it lasts too long you can feel overloaded by stress. Stress overload can negatively affect you both mentally and physically. This is known as chronic stress. Chronic stress, simply put is being overloaded with stress on an ongoing basis. It’s when your fight or flight response is [...]
