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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Does Stress Cause High Blood Pressure?
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Does Stress Affect Blood Sugar?
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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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What Is Fatigue?
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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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What Is Acute Stress Disorder?
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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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How to Optimize Your Space For Your Mental Health
Cleaning the house
The Relationship Between Mental Health and Cleaning
How your environment affects your mental health
How Does Your Environment Affect Your Mental Health?
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Does Masturbation Affect Mental Health?
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How to Stop Crying
Stressed out woman trying to work and deal with children.
What Is the Impact of Prolonged Stress?
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Mental Health Effects of Reading Negative Comments Online
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What Is Irritability?
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What Is Stress Cardiomyopathy?
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Benefits of Yoga and Meditation in Communities of Color
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How to Stop Overthinking
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The Mental Health Effects of Being in Prison
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The Five Stages of Grief
People experiencing dysphoria lack enthusiasm about life.
What Is Dysphoria?
Tips for coping with sleep deprivation
What Is Chronic Sleep Deprivation?
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How Stress Works With and Against Your Memory
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What Is Cortisol?
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Common Signs and Symptoms of Too Much Stress
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The Link Between Stress and Hair Loss
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How Your Stress Response Is Triggered
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How Psychoneuroimmunology Sheds Light on Stress and Overall Health
Friendships are great for stress relief
How Women Can Reduce Stress and Stay Healthy
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7 Alternative Treatments for High Blood Pressure
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How Your Body Uses Epinephrine in Stress Response
Rumination can be stressful.
What Is Rumination?
What Is Anal Personality?
What Is an Anal Personality?
Sleep deprivation can make stress levels soar.
Stress and Sleep Deprivation
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How Anxiety Affects Health and Longevity
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How Stress Can Cause Weight Gain
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Why You Binge When You're Not Hungry
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The Link Between Stress and Adult Acne
Meditation can be grasped even by beginners.
Relaxation Response for Reversing Stress
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College Homesickness and How Parents Can Help
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How Are Headaches and Stress Connected?
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When Stress Is Actually Good for You
Anger
The Effects of Poorly Managed Anger
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How Stress Can Cause a Low Sex Drive
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All About Catecholamines in the Stress Response
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Benefits of Positive Thinking for Body and Mind
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5 Ways You May Be Making Things Harder for Yourself
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How to Handle a Stress-Related Psychosomatic Illness