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Getty Images You're probably not surprised to learn that a stressful job can be bad for your health. Australian National University researchers used data from a 20-year Personality and Total ...
Racing thoughts refers to the rapid thought patterns that often occur in manic, hypomanic, or mixed episodes.While racing thoughts are most commonly described in people with bipolar disorder and sleep apnea, they are also common with anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and other psychiatric disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
People who experience good opportunities for control in their own work and those who feel that they are treated fairly develop less symptoms of depression and exhaustion disorder than others. Women and men with similar working conditions develop symptoms of depression as much as exhaustion disorder.
"Hard tasks tend to produce overconfidence but worse-than-average perceptions," reported Katherine A. Burson, Richard P. Larrick, and Jack B. Soll in a 2005 study, "whereas easy tasks tend to produce underconfidence and better-than-average effects." [1] The hard-easy effect falls under the umbrella of "social comparison theory", which was ...
A study suggests how thinking too much over a long period of time may lead to changes in the brain that make you feel tired. After… How thinking too hard could make you tired: study
The types of jobs that pay workers higher salaries tend to provide them with greater job-related autonomy. As indicated above, job-related autonomy is associated with better health. A problem in research on occupational stress is how to "unconfound" the relationship between stressful working conditions, such as low levels of autonomy, and ...
For example, if we already struggle with jumping to negative conclusions or being really hard on ourselves, it can be easy to assume one bad moment means the day is unsalvageable or to take it ...
Tension headache, stress headache, or tension-type headache (TTH), is the most common type of primary headache. The pain usually radiates from the lower back of the head, the neck, the eyes, or other muscle groups in the body typically affecting both sides of the head. Tension-type headaches account for nearly 90% of all headaches.