It is estimated that more than 75% of all visits to a doctor are for stress-related complaints. Read about the causes and effects of stress in the following websites. I don't understand why health professionals don't prescribes “Stress reduction” along with the medicines, treatments and surgeries. You can get an idea about stress and its management from the resources on this page.
From my personal experience and feedback from variety of practitioners of all ages, I believe 'focusing on breathing' practice, the way it is suggested in this website, is the simplest, no-cost solution for stress reduction and stress prevention. It works for all ages and cultures.
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Stress Medline Plus a part of National Institute of Health
Chronic stress - Wikipedia
"I’m So Stressed Out!" If you are struggling to cope, or the symptoms of your stress or anxiety won’t go away, it could affect your health. Learn more NIH
Stress management WebMD
An Overview of Stress Management verywellmind.com
What Causes Stress and Stress Management medicinenet.com
What are the physical effects of stress? Health.how stuff works.com
Manage Stress. Be Happy and Effective at Work mindtools
Stress effects on the body: Body stress affects all systems of the body including muscles, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nervous and reproductive systems. American Psychological Association
Stressed out? Listen to to your brain and body Geisinger.org
How Does Stress Affect Your Body? The Latest Research Shows It Can Vary Stress.org
Stress Effects - How Is Stress Affecting You? The American Institute of Stress
Stress and Health - Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health
28 Simple Ways to Relieve Stress Every Single Day Prevention magazine
Understanding the stress response Harvard Medical School
How chronic stress changes the brain, and what you can do to reverse the damage Neuroscience news
How Does Stress Impact Human Body? IntechOpen
Perceived stress scale Online scoring from bemindfulonline.com
Online 'Perceived Stress Scale' (PSS) Kresser Institute
How to evaluate the score: 0-13 Low stress; 14-26 Medium stress; 27 -40 High stress;
Online Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale with evaluation
Youtube videos on Psychological stress
Scholarly articles
Best practices for stress measurement: How to measure psychological stress in health research NCBI
More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science NCBI
Cardiorespiratory Dynamic Response to Mental Stress: A Multivariate Time-Frequency Analysis NCBI
Stressed or stressed out: What is the difference? Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science NCBI
