Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

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Feeling stressed? It’s more likely in some U.S. states than others

In the study, the researchers looked at rates of mental distress by state among 2.4 million adults across two time periods — 1993 through 2001 and 2003 through 2006 — as part of the ongoing Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System study. Overall, the prevalence [...]

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Sweat may give off stress signals, study says

If you’re working in a stressful environment, you and your colleagues may be communicating tension to one another without even realizing it.
A new study published in the online journal PLoS One reveals changes in brain activity when people are exposed to sweat from others who have been [...]

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Music as medicine: Docs use tunes as treatment

As Victor Fabry napped in his hospital bed, a quiet symphony filled his room. The steady pulse of a cardiac monitor marked the progress of his mending heart. Over that beat, the swaying strains of a Brazilian guitarist pumped nearly nonstop from a CD player on the [...]

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Army gets $117 million for emotional training
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32456908/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/

The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Active-duty soldiers, reservists and members of [...]