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Stress

Stress can manifest in many different forms and can even contribute to symptoms of illness.

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What are the symptoms of PTSD?
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by Cleveland Clinic
People who have PTSD may have the following symptoms: Flashbacks (vivid feelings that the traumatic event is happening again). Sometimes, a person can dissociate in such a way as to lose track of time. Nightmares about the event Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't there) Decreased interest in things that were once important Feeling hopeless about the future Avoiding things...
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What types of treatment are available for PTSD?
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There are several different types of treatment for PTSD. There is no one treatment that works for everyone. If you feel that you may have PTSD, talk with your doctor or mental health provider to determine what treatment options are best for you. Types of therapy that are often successful with PTSD are: Group therapy:In this type of therapy, you talk with others who have had similar traumatic e...
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What are the most important things I can do to live longer?
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by Dr. John La Puma
Dr Mike Roizen wrote the book on this, and the RealAge science team found the biggest biological age difference with 5 behaviors:  *Monitor Your Health/Seek High Quality Care (12 years younger);   *Laugh a Lot/immune system boost (8 years younger)   *Quit Smoking and Avoid Smoking (8 years younger);   *Control Your Blood Pressure (115/75 mm Hg) is as much as 25 ...
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How does anger affect my heart?
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by Dr. Michael Roizen
As you know from your first love (whether it was Sammy in seventh grade or Cheryl Tiegs in a bathing suit), the mind and body have a strong connection. You feel different when you're happy. In fact, you're healthier when you're happy. So it shouldn't be a surprise that your emotions can have an enormous impact on the way your body works. Powerful negative emotional states are bad for your heart a...
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How does stress affect my heart?
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by Dr. Michael Roizen
Stress is the greatest ager of your body in general, especially the nagging, unfinished-tasks kind of stress that hangs over you day after day, or the stress of things that are out of your control (as opposed to the acute stresses-having a flat tire or adjusting to a traffic jam when you are in a hurry-that eventually get fixed). We don't fully understand the mechanism of how emotional stress pro...
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When does stress cross the line from being helpful to harmful?
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by Dr. Mehmet Oz
In a lot of ways, stress is good. It's the physiological mechanism that helps us function. It helps us make deadlines and run away from lions. Faced with a situation that requires action, we either decide to fight it (hustle to meet the deadline) or run away from it (aforementioned lion). It's the process that defines "fight or flight." When those stressors reach extremely high levels, however, s...
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What kind of stressors are the most damaging?
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by Dr. Michael Roizen
What we usually think of as stress-fleeting daily hassles like deadlines and getting the kids out the door-do not age our brain. It's the major stresses and nagging, prolonged little stresses that age us. For years, researchers believed that a Type-A, high-wired personality caused stress-induced illness, but your brain doesn't age from the stresses you bring on to yourself-like working hard and t...
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What are two of the best stress-reducers?
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by Dr. Mehmet Oz
Two of my favorite stress-reducers are laughing and meditation. Laughing, which reduces anxiety, tension, and stress, can make you between 1.7 to eight years younger. With meditation, there's a multiple payoff. Meditation helps maintain your brain cells and preserve memory-related functions, and the stress-reduction component of meditation helps prevent such conditions as depression and anxiety d...
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What's the simplest way to start meditating?
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by Dr. Michael Roizen
To meditate, all you need is a quiet room. With your eyes partially closed, focus on your breathing, and repeat the same word or phrase-like "Um" or "One"-over and over. That process of repeating the same word is what helps clear and relax your mind. This is what has the overall positive effect on your health, unless you use the phrase "I want nachos."
Why is stress so damaging to your health?
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by Dr. Michael Roizen
Though we don't have a lot of data about the mechanisms that link stress and aging, we are brought up to believe that stress is correlated with infections. In fact, stress is perhaps the greatest ager of them all. The more you're stressed, the greater your risk of accidents, infections, and arterial aging. It's not really the stress we're worried about, since everyone has it, but more so your res...
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