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Topic: Mental Health

  
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Stress: What You and Your Boss Can Do About It

We all hear about how the fast pace of life today, and how economic pressures have increased stress levels. While the bad news about stress is familiar to most of us, the good news about stress is rarely heard.READ»

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The Chemistry of Stress and Manager Behavior

Under stress, hormones such as cortisol surge and severely affect people's reasoning and cognition. When both employees and managers are under stress, their cortisol levels are creating both an opportunity to take action, or conversely "be frozen," in a stressful state.READ»

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Andy Grove to CDU: Why Are You Looking at Me?

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

Business Fights Back: Crisis and Confidence at Ground Zero

Pamela Porter and her colleagues at Crisis Management International are the National Guard of therapists -- called to duty at a moment's notice to respond to disaster. Here's the remarkable story of their response to September 11.READ»

Attorney, Writer, Speaker

Steven L Hayes Steven L Hayes was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where, inspired partly by the fact that his father was the County Sheriff, he seemed destined to find his life’s work in helping and protecting others. ...READ»

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Hospitality Executives Under Stress During Stressful Times Need Executive Stress Solutions

Executive stress is real, particularly true for executives in the hospitality industry... Here are some actions that you can take as an executive to reduce stress, stay focused stay present. READ»

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How Can Positive Affirmations Work?

Positive affirmations can be a benefit to personal growth, if done in the right context, thus avoiding the damaging consequences of the wrong approach, as shown in recent researchREAD»

Cease and De-Stress

Studies suggest that lack of career control may cause more stress than long hours or work/life imbalanceREAD»

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Do You Have Achiever's Disease?

Dear Dr. G, I'm a highly successful business leader, and I'm not using my name because everyone knows it. I'm talented, I've worked hard, and I deserve my reputation as a power player in the business world because I'm willing to take ...READ»

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Is Your Boss Killing You?

New research suggests that employees who see their bosses as unfair may be at significantly greater risk for heart disease. Here's how to fight back.READ»

Stress Much?

Doug Hall mentions an interesting DDB Needham Life Style Study that indicates that the number of people who feel that they are "under a great deal of pressure most of the time" has grown from 40% in 1975 to 72% in 1996. His advice ...READ»

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Are You Addicted To Being Addicted

This is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of being addicted . I am suggesting this phenomenon is ...READ»

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Are You Addicted To Being Addicted

This is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of being addicted . I am suggesting this phenomenon is an aspect of the ...READ»

Cease and De-Stress

Studies suggest that lack of career control may cause more stress than long hours or work/life imbalanceREAD»

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Verdict : Alcoholism is a Choice not a Disease

Some people say alcoholism as an addiction is a disease. Do you believe addiction is a disease? Do you believe addicted people have their addiction because of a genetic predisposition? If you answered 'yes' to either or both of these questions then the following article will surely challenge those beliefs.READ»

Dr. Rong Ji Guan, doctordecision

Dr. Rong Ji Guan, doctordecisionREAD»

Stress Less - Profiles

The key to avoiding burnout is to follow a regular routine for managing stress.READ»

Prescription Drug Injuries or Death

It was a poor choice at best and a deadly choice at its worst. The switch the medical community made from prescribing Oxycontin to using methadone only added fuel to the fire of drug addiction.READ»

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Success <amp></amp> Excess - Introduction

Why are our generation's smartest, most talented, most successful people flirting with disaster in record numbers? What is destroying the best and the brightest at the very moment when they can have it all?READ»

5 Ways to Chill

5 tips for keeping your adrenaline levels from maxing out.READ»

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Why Don't I Feel Better: The Truth About Positive Affirmations and Self Help Books?

"I am successful," "I am a wonderful person," "I will find love again," many other similar phrases that students, the broken-hearted and unfulfilled employees may repeat to themselves over and over again, hoping to change their lives. Self-help books through the ages, from Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking all the way to the latest, The Secret, have encouraged people with low self-esteem to make positive self-statements or affirmations. New research suggests it may do more harm than good to many people.READ»

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Executives Under Stress During Stressful Times Need Executive Stress Solutions

Executive stress is real...Being stressed is not a reflection on your leadership abilities but not doing anything about it can negatively impact your focus, productivity & profit. READ»

We Try Softer!

Two experiments in stress management.READ»

Feed the Models: A Manifesto

For the past 20 years, emaciated models have fueled the fashion industry as the standard for sex appeal and style. It all started with Twiggy in the 1960's, a skinny little pixie of an icon whose cute nonexistant thighs inspired my ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Careers: Lead Like Fonzie

Leadership can be stressful. Being pulled in a million different directions, always having to bring your “A game,” having 100% of the accountability without 100% of the responsibility. The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) ...READ»