Category: Health Conditions
Job Strain and Heart Disease in Women
If you have been following my blog, you may have heard me talk about my job stress and heath. Like many workers these days, I feel that I have too little time in the day to finish everything. My work is very demanding. It often requires my undivided attention and challenges me in numerous ways. [...]
Stress and My Health: My Pneumonia Experience
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you have probably recognized that my posts often focus on how stress can affect a person’s health. So far, I have had fewer personal posts on how health problems can be stressful. For the most part, I have been lucky enough to have pretty good health. [...]
STRESS STORIES: Growing up with Congenital Heart Defects
If you have been following the Stress and Health Online blog, you know that we have introduced a series called “STRESS STORIES” where readers share experiences of stress and how they have coped or are coping with these experiences. I am grateful that Erin from www.365changesofme.com has agreed to share her story of growing up with [...]
Traumatic Stress Persists in Some Cancer Survivors Many Years After Diagnosis
Recently, I posted about a survey of breast cancer survivors who reported significant distress and depression. However, survivors of other types of cancer also experience significant stress. In fact, recent research published in 2011 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds that more than one third of survivors of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, another type of cancer, [...]
STRESS STORIES: “I Experienced Dysfunctional Menstrual Bleeding!”
I am pleased to announce a new series on the Stress and Health Online blog featuring readers’ stories of stressful experiences in their lives and how they coped with them. The series is called “STRESS STORIES.” The inaugural STRESS STORIES post features Shelomita, a fellow blogger who has a Mommagazine called “Cute Coconut.” Shelomita’s story [...]
A Link Between A Gene and Mental Health: The Role of the OXTR Gene
There seem to be people in the world who have trouble handling stress, and there are others who seem to be able to brush it off. People who are better able to cope with stress often have more optimism. In other words, they expect that good things will happen. In addition, people who are better [...]
Breast Cancer Survivors Report Significant Distress
As October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it is very timely that a recent report sheds light on the experience of the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States. The Cancer Support Community’s Research and Training Institute released a report titled Cancer Survivor Registry: The Breast Cancer M.A.P. (Mind Affects Physical). The [...]
My House Wasn’t Hit By the Satellite. Was Yours?
I was glad to wake up this morning to find that NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, had not crashed into my house. Driving to work yesterday, I heard a report on the public radio station about how UARS would be plummeting to the earth overnight, but scientists could not quite predict where [...]
Does Yoga Help Patients with Type 2 Diabetes? Recent Research Shows Promise
For those of you who have diabetes, you may be interested to know about a new study evaluating whether yoga can improve health in people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. There have been a number of studies of whether various stress management approaches improve the health of people affected by diabetes. A 2011 study conducted [...]
Relationship Stress is a Predictor of Higher Body Weight
Have you ever had an argument with your significant other and then coped with your frustration by eating? Some people report that they feel better by eating foods high in fat and high in carbohydrates, like pizza or cookies. Recent research shows that negativity in a relationship can lead to weight gain over time. A [...]
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