Crying Myself To SleepWhy Do We Feel So Tired After A Good Cry? When we cry, our heart rate increases and breathing slows down, reducing the amount of oxygen the brain receives, which leads to drowsiness. By Devrupa Rakshit
Breathe DeepStress Has Made Us Shallow Breathers. Here’s What It Does To Our Bodies. Stress begets shallow breathing, and shallow breathing begets more stress. By Rajvi Desai
Mental Health CrisisChildren Who Experience Early Life Stress More Likely to Develop Youth‑Onset Depression: Study Sexual abuse, physical abuse, death of a family member, domestic violence, and emotional abuse were associated with significantly higher risk for youth-onset MDD. By Devrupa Rakshit
MenstressedLockdown Stress Is Disrupting Menstrual Cycles Gynecologists believe that stress, in addition to lifestyle changes and the lack of physical exercise under lockdown, is leading to period irregularities. By Devrupa Rakshit
Lights OutIs This Normal? “I Feel Sleepy When I’m Stressed” It's a kind of stress response called "learned helplessness" that renders the individual passive in the face of stress. By Rajvi Desai
Everyone Has Their RoleAre You the Pandemic Prepper, or the Freeloading Denier? Certain personality traits make us cope with stress in different ways. By Liesl Goecker
Too Stressed Didn't EatSome People Tend to Stress‑Eat, While Others Stress‑Starve The difference between either reaction depends on whether people want to focus on their stress or distract themselves. By Aditi Murti
Grey's AnatomyStress Accelerates the Greying of Hair, and Scientists Now Know How Stress excites pigment-producing cells in hair follicles to work extra hard, which drains their reserve of hair color. By Rajvi Desai
GroundbreakingResearchers Find Blood Biomarker That Can Potentially Help Prevent, Cure PTSD Researchers discovered a malfunctioning collection of proteins involved in cellular function, and found a way to fix it, preventing the brain from replaying trauma. By Aditi Murti
Say Yes To The StressEverything You Need to Know About That Vague but Heavy Feeling of Stress Turns out, stress is only as damaging to our health as we think it is. By Pallavi Prasad
A Long WayAs Corporate Mental Health Programs Gain Popularity, Navigating Individual Struggles at Work Still Difficult Stigma and productivity concerns keep conversations between employers and employees about individual mental health out of reach. By Anubhuti Matta
Bringing Home The BaconMen More Stressed by Higher‑Paid Wives Than by Being Sole Breadwinner, Study Finds Gender stereotypes of men being breadwinners make it hard for them to cope when women contribute equally or more to household income. By Liesl Goecker
A Thing Of The PastWhy Do We Reminisce About the Good Old Days? Nostalgia is a coping mechanism for dark times. By Anubhuti Matta
Thank God It's ThursdayMicrosoft Japan Tests a 4‑Day Work Week, Sees a 40% Rise in Productivity Research says it works. Why aren't more companies on board? By Anubhuti Matta
Catch And ReleaseStress Is Contagious, but Here’s How We Can Avoid Infecting Each Other Talking about what we're doing to cope with our stress, rather than just talking about how stressed we are, can keep stress from affecting others. By Liesl Goecker
Can We Uninvent This?Using Social Media to Cope With Stress May Cause More Stress Tech-related stress can arise from information overload, the need to conform to peers online, and even website interface changes. By Aditi Murti
Take A BreatherIncreased Stress Hormone Levels Cause Cognitive Decline Linked To Alzheimer’s Disease Stress hormones are healthy and necessary for fight-or-flight responses, but too much can cause a slew of health issues. By Aditi Murti
The Commercialization of Self‑Care Has Left Us Needing More Self‑Care Self-care should be an act of self-preservation, not self-improvement. By Liesl Goecker
