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Relaxation can relieve the negative health effects of your body's stress response, including headaches, insomnia or increased risk of heart disease.
Follow the links below to find information about stress and relaxation.
Updated February 2009
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Anger - how it affects people
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Better Health Channel
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Anger is a powerful emotion. Uncontrolled anger may cause increased anxiety, high blood pressure and headaches and trigger fights or abuse. Anger management strategies include regular exercise and learning how to relax.
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Sep 2009
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Stress - learning to relax
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Sometimes everything seems to go wrong at once. As more things happen we get more stressed, which means we get too tired and can't think properly!
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Sep 2009
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Managing stress
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Novita Children's Services
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Information is provided about stress, what it is and what causes it. Lots of practical suggestions are also provided for constructively dealing with stress.
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Jul 2009
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Stress and relaxation
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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Is life speeding up? It seems like we need to do more and more just to keep up. This topic is about stress, how to recognise it and how to stay on top.
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Jul 2009
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Fact sheet 6 - reducing stress
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beyondblue
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Stress is a response to an event or situation. It can be positive or negative. Stress is common in daily life and may be associated with work, family or personal relationships. It usually means that something is happening that's causing worry and affecting how we are thinking and feeling.
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Jan 2009
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Sleep
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Australian Breastfeeding Association
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Sleep patterns appear, disappear or change as a baby grows from newborn to older baby to toddler. Sometimes it is possible to find a cause of waking, but usually there is no apparent reason. Parents can be reassured that babies are individual, and sleep patterns will change as they mature.
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Jan 2009
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Breathing to reduce stress
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Better Health Channel
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Stress can be managed and reduced with proper breathing. Shallow breathing is a typical stress response. Hyperventilation can prolong anxiety and stress. Abdominal breathing techniques soothe the nervous system and encourage health benefits, such as reduced blood pressure.
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Dec 2008
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Relaxation techniques
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DepressioNet
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There are a variety of methods to relieve your stress and you may need to explore different techniques to discover which one best suits you.
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Dec 2008
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Depression - management and treatment options
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Inspire Foundation
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It's normal to feel down or sad at times during your life. Sometimes depression or a depressed mood is a response to something in particular and other times it can occur for no apparent reason. There are many different management and treatment options for depression. Check out this revised and expanded factsheet for more info.
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Nov 2008
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Sleep problems - babies
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Better Health Channel
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Around one-third of babies experience excessive disrupted sleep. Common problems include extended crying when first put to bed and, sometimes, later during the night. Parents can use various strategies to help their baby settle and sleep better. A tired or crying baby can be stressful for parents, who need help and support networks.
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Sep 2008
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Psychological treatments for the management of irritable bowel syndrome
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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In this review, the effectiveness of psychological therapies for adult patients with irritable bowel syndrome was evaluated. Studies involving cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and relaxation therapy or stress management were re...
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Sep 2008
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Tinnitus - tips to help you adjust
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Better Health Channel
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Tinnitus does not have to dramatically affect your quality of life. Avoid focusing too much attention on your tinnitus and take steps to manage the condition. Avoid excessive noise and find relaxation and stress management strategies that work for you.
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Jul 2008
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Tinnitus - lifestyle adjustments can help
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Better Health Channel
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Tinnitus can be managed with some lifestyle changes. Avoiding stress, fatigue and loud noise can help. Some foods and drinks can increase tinnitus including caffeine (in tea, coffee and other drinks), quinine (in tonic water), red wine and spicy foods. Quit smoking to improve your health and ask your doctor if your medications may make tinnitus worse.
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Jul 2008
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Meditation
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Better Health Channel
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Meditation is the deliberate holding of one's attention on a subject, object or process. It may involve clearing the mind. Results can include feeling more 'alive', enhanced feelings of calm and heightened awareness. The regular practice of meditation offers many long-term health benefits, such as reduced stress and reduced blood pressure.
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Jul 2008
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Stress - learning to relax
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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If you are feeling stressed, then you may be having trouble with sleeping and concentrating, and with being positive and hopeful. Your body may be trying to get you to recognise that it is feeling stressed by giving you headaches, making you feel sick, giving you indigestion, a fluttery feeling in the tummy, or any one of a number of other signs that are trying to show you that you need to relax. Here are some ideas to help you deal with stress.
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Jun 2008
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Stress management techniques
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InfraPsych
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Describes a number of ways to reduce stress including progressive muscle relaxation, breathing exercises, problem solving, time management, and exercise.
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Jun 2008
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Psychological consequences of respiratory diseases
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The Australian Lung Foundation
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Chronic illness demands continual psychological adjustment as the disease progresses through different stages from no symptoms to mild, then moderate and severe symptoms. Respiratory patients must cope with a wide variety of stressors including shortness of breath, cough, sputum production, wheeze, pain and social isolation.
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Mar 2008
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Stress
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Inspire Foundation
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This fact sheet contains information on what causes stress, the effects of being stressed and how you can manage it
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Feb 2008
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Are you anxious?
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Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
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Being too anxious is awful. This section contains some general advice and a description of techniques that you can use to reduce these feelings.
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Jan 2007
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