Stress in sentence

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For many people, this stress is temporary, as its cause is quickly resolved.

But what if the very thing keeping you awake was stress about losing sleep?

So stressed their brains hijack the stress response system, flooding the body with fight-flight-or-freeze chemicals.

This symptom of poor sleep leaves insomniacs waking in a state of exhaustion, confusion, and stress, which starts the process all over again.

When these cycles of stress and restlessness last several months, they’re diagnosed as chronic insomnia.

Managing the stress that leads to hyperarousal is one of our best-understood treatments for insomnia, and good sleep practices can help rebuild your relationship with bedtime.

So while they have difficulty falling asleep at a typical bedtime, it’s not due to increased stress.

So there's a link between tiredness and the metabolic predisposition for weight gain: stress.

And one of the things of stress, of course, is loss of memory, which is what I sort of just then had a little lapse of.

But stress is so much more.

So, if you're acutely stressed, not a great problem, but it's sustained stress associated with sleep loss that's the problem.

Sustained stress leads to suppressed immunity.

Increased levels of stress throw glucose into the circulation.

If you get sleep, it reduces your mood changes, your stress, your levels of anger, your impulsivity, and your tendency to drink and take drugs.

In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you've experienced relatively little stress.

How about a moderate amount of stress?

Who has experienced a lot of stress?

But I fear that something I've been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good, and it has to do with stress.

For years I've been telling people, stress makes you sick.

Basically, I've turned stress into the enemy.

But I have changed my mind about stress, and today, I want to change yours.

Let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole approach to stress.

This study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for eight years, and they started by asking people, "How much stress have you experienced in the last year?"

They also asked, "Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health?"

People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying.

But that was only true for the people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health.

People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die.

In fact, they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had relatively little stress.

Now the researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 182,000 Americans died prematurely, not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for you.

Now, if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and homicide.

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