Archive for October, 2007

After a stressful day as a computer programmer, Jim pulled into his driveway. The children s toys were scattered on the walkway to the house.
He immediately began noticing slight tension in his muscles and apprehension in his stomach.
Entering his house, his wife ignored him while she talked with her sister on the telephone. His […]

I live in South Florida and at the end of October, we got hit by a hurricane named Wilma. For close to two weeks we had to deal with power outages, long lines at the gas stations, bare groceries stores’ shelves and many other […]

Stress is a response that includes both physical and mental responses to what we experience in our day to day life. In this context, stress may be defined as the collective physical and mental responses to an unacceptable disparity between personal expectations and actual physical and/or imaginary personal experiences. Although stress has been […]