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Stress can manifest itself physically, and those physical symptoms of stress can increase your feelings of stress, causing a terrible cycle. If you’ve ever felt that your own anxiety was causing you to break out or go gray, you might not be that far off base. Because the body reacts to stress by increasing production [...]
Lonely people are less healthy, and the quality of friendships is more important than the quantity, according to researchers at the University of Arizona.
Having hundreds of friends on Facebook or dozens of followers on Twitter does not prevent the effects of loneliness. The quality and depth of connections with others is as important or more [...]
Male teenagers or twenty-somethings who are diagnosed with anxiety are more likely to have a heart attack or heart disease later in life than men who do not experience anxiety disorders earlier in life.
The increased risk is extremely high: an early diagnosis of anxiety more than doubles the chances of later coronary trouble. The findings [...]
Certain stress hormones appear to have a stronger effect on women than men, so that the same low levels of stress are more likely to induce depression in women than in men. This finding represents the first evidence that there may be a biological basis for the higher rates at which women are diagnosed with [...]