Emotional stress

How not to care online: Survival guide for staying human

Your nervous system is under siege, and the people creating that content are counting on exactly this reaction.

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Young caucasian woman eating greedily on the floor

Israelis' Food Choices After October 7 Reveal How Emotion Quietly Shapes Our Economy

A woman experiencing emotional stress

Israeli study reveals a link between prolonged psychological stress and cancer

ELEVATED EMOTIONAL connection among people who have suffered in which one person’s emotions are felt and understood by another without explicit explanation could increase vulnerability to personal distress.

Hebrew University study discovers hidden mental health risks for youth during war


Staying Positive When Times Are Tough


Stress and anxiety caused by smartphone use revealed in new TAU study

An excessive amount of time spent on social media is also likely to cause teeth-grinding and facial muscle pain.

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What is the impact of music on our ability to understand? - study

How does music affect our emotions? • How does it change our ability to learn?

David Broza: You have to teach yourself in a disciplinary way how to compose music without words-not just one song, but an album's worth.

How can those 65+ avoid wild emotional fluctuations in trying times?

While a positive outlook from the government may make us feel hopeful, a negative report from a medical expert can bring us down.

Moods can move from optimistic and hopeful to feelings of sadness or depression.

A key to physical and emotional immunity

Emotional and mental centeredness can keep us alert against the panic or anger.

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Coronavirus: Unexpected emotional benefits in a difficult time

Below I describe some of the positives that I have seen firsthand in both my private practice and personal life.

Embrace the simple pleasure

Haifa U. mice memory manipulation could work on humans

"We were able, for the first time, to cause mice to assign a negative value to an event that never took place."

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Do men have more trouble crying than women?

While it may be true that men cry less than women do, they certainly can enjoy the same health and psychological benefits if they get the help to cry when the need arises

Men often refrain from showing their soft side in public and leave their feelings private

That place that makes you happy? New algorithm can pinpoint it

The researchers have succeeded in linking emotion to places by means of a syntactic analysis of messages containing location tags.

Happy man jumping in air

Super stress strategies

What causes overwhelming stress in one person may be seen as irrelevant for someone else, and what’s stressful today may be a nonissue tomorrow.

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