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News, views, information and advice on busting stress and living a less-stressed life.
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How Can Stress Affect You? (how does stress affect health)
Depending on the individual, stress can manifest itself in many different ways. Below are some of the signs and symptoms individuals who are under stress sometimes display. From Tolley’s Managing Stress in the Workplace, written by Carole Spiers.
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Early To Bed…
Making night visits is a part of my job I never enjoy. It is not the patients’ fault, I just like my sleep too much. There is, however, a useful consequence of getting out of bed at 4 a.m. and returning home an hour later wide awake.
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To Sleep, Perchance To Dream
Two things in life I am short of are time and sleep. I sympathize with insomniac patients looking for a cure, but pills are never the answer. When I take a detailed sleep history from such people, the cause of their problem is usually obvious and relatively easy to fix.Yet why should a lack of sleep matter?
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Eat Well, Eat Right
Stress can be caused by eating habits. This ranges from eating too much junk food, or eating too much or too fast, to eating the wrong amounts at the wrong time of day. The old adage ‘Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a lord and dinner like a pauper’ is still a valid one.
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Simply the Worst: The Most Infuriating Telephone Hold Music
It is meant to placate us but it actually drives us nuts. But which is the most annoying telephone hold music of all? An NOP poll commissioned by stressbusting found a clear winner:
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Sunday Night Fever: Sleep Survey
Sunday is the cruellest night for insomniacs, finds an NOP poll conducted for www.stressbusting.co.uk, which also discovers that nearly two-thirds of people now have trouble sleeping.
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Introducing Clifford White
If you haven’t heard of Clifford White before, his first relaxation music album ‘Ascension’ sold over 50,000 copies world-wide on the New World label back in 1985. Over the following years Clifford continued to produce a number of other superb relaxation music albums…
