And the longer you live in this heightened state, the harder it gets for you to return to being able to take things in stride, says Joshua Wiley, Ph.D., a senior research fellow in psychology at ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Every parent knows that welcoming a child into the family can be one of life’s greatest blessings while simultaneously wreaking havoc on stress levels and sleep patterns. Parenting can be beautifully ...

Stress is the silent saboteur—creeping into your day, wrecking your mood, hijacking your focus, and even straining your ...

My gut often tells me that I’m traversing a stressful patch before my brain catches up: A few late nights of work or a rough conversation with a friend, and like clockwork my intestines are turning ...

Stress can seriously impact your physical and mental health if not managed properly. Stress is an inevitable part of life, and everyone experiences it at some point. Whether it's from work pressures, ...

High levels of stress as a teenager may come back to bite you later in life, scientists have warned. Stress is a serious issue among adolescents in the U.S, and being a teenager is hard at the best of ...

Stress does not always show up as anxiety, restlessness, or sleepless nights. Sometimes, it settles quietly into the body. One place it often affects without warning is blood circulation. Cold hands.

Within five minutes of casual conversation with our favorite geniuses—Barbara Kingsolver, Leonardo da Vinci, Meryl Streep, and Benjamin Franklin come to mind—we would all be likely to agree we’re ...