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  • Behind Cats' Purrs and Their Healing Power-Sharing the Benefits

    Let me introduce myself, I’m Nicole, a researcher at the Stress, Psychiatry & Immunology (SPI) lab at Endorphins help decrease stress hormone levels. Lowered stress hormones are helpful for healing, lowering blood pressure, and helping people cope with Purring as anti-stress and anxiety If these “healing powers” were not enough, the combined effects of their relaxing presence and their purr make cats powerful against stress and anxiety.

  • The power of the stars: What the horoscope says about me.

    This could be linked to a desire for finding meaning during stressful times, as this has been identified personality, and psychological characteristics , such as thinking style, self-concept validation, and stress Some examples include: High-stress levels appear to make people more likely to believe in astrology

  • How are Ukrainian mental health workers responding to a collective crisis?

    in 2017, 84.6 % of Ukrainians from the general population reported having experienced post-traumatic stress People report the most typical issues: burnout, recovery from a breakup, sleep problems, stress, anger For example, we added calming audio fairytales in Ukrainian, de-stressing games, and advice for different I think after the war, it will be essential to provide solutions for handling the stress brought on by From the beginning of the war, 64.6% of Ukrainian users used the app to reduce stress, 64.2% to feel

  • The Role of Psychoneuroendocrinology in Health and Disease

    to test how people respond to acute stress. hormones, while the participant is completing stressful tasks. What is deemed ‘stressful’ varies from person to person. As mentioned before, the stress response includes different bodily aspects. are in evoking a stress response.

  • Preparing for the arrival of a new baby and the transition to parenthood

    associated with many changes and challenges and, as a result, parents have to deal with high levels of stress It is therefore important for parents to reduce their levels of stress, to protect their wellbeing and their baby’s too, as stress during pregnancy and postnatally can also have negative effects on the infant's To reduce stress, it is important to start thinking about possible strategies that can help deal with However, parents can feel stressed, frustrated, and bored.

  • The importance of responding to a crying baby

    self-regulatory strategies, behaviours aimed at handling negative emotions and reducing their level of stress This ability will help them to understand their own emotions and those of others, manage stressful situations associated with the infant's production of high levels of cortisol, which is the hormone released during stressful Prolonged exposure to the baby crying is stressful also for the caregiver. It triggers a stressful response in the body and, specifically the release of cortisol and of other hormones

  • Mindfulness: How to become a Jedi?

    In fact, sooner or later, the majority of us experiences stress or anxiety. Mindfulness is a useful tool that you can use to handle every-day stressful situations and to reconnect The American professor emeritus of medicine and biologist created the “Stress Reduction Clinic” in 1979 This program was then modified, and today it is known as “Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” or “MBSR Even though I am praising mindfulness as the answer to stress-related problems, I want to highlight the

  • Children’s Tantrums: What they really are and what we can do

    Tiredness, overstimulation, hunger and stress increase the probability of these behaviours. for our well-being as it helps us understand our emotions and those of others, successfully managing stressful This is why it is fundamental to work on our self-regulation first and model positive reactions to stressful This is even more difficult if we are tired, going through stressful situations, lack a support network

  • Using Expressive Writing to cope with childbirth

    period is a critical and vulnerable phase, in which the risk of postnatal depression and post-traumatic stress Recent studies in post-partum PTSD have shown that childbirth is a stressful and traumatic event per , frightening thoughts and flash backs, sleep problems, and other posttraumatic symptoms induced by stressful experimental group, as compared with controls, were shown to have reductions in negative effects of stress study investigated whether an expressive writing intervention decreases depression and posttraumatic stress

  • Navigating Prenatal Depression and Pregnancy Complications

    conditions , including perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress This condition affects up to 20% of pregnant women and can be triggered by a mix of hormonal changes, stress These stressors like housing insecurity, unhealthy relationships, and economic hardship increase self-blame The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal ( HPA ) axis, which controls the body's stress response, also gets

  • Becoming A Mother, While Loving an Addict

    We know that prenatal stress can indirectly affect infant health and development and the notion of this Weekly therapy sessions aided me in processing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) while I was determined to shield her from what trauma and stress I could during her formative years.

  • Cognitive Distortions: The thinking errors that can affect anxiety

    However, I still did well considering all the stress I’ve been under lately. You might start by attending smaller, less stressful meetings and noting down how you feel at the start This can manifest in many different situations but can be particularly stressful for people with social Do you always panic on planes, or was it just one isolated incident due to additional stress?

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