Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

The simple secret to great sleep (Health.com) — You already know that pregnancy pains and hot flashes can keep you tossing and turning at night. But there’s a host of other, less-heralded health concerns that may be silently interfering with your shut-eye. Here’s how to deal with these stealth sleep stealers, decade by decade. The [...]

Insomnia is deadly for men Insomnia kills. That’s the central finding of a large study looking at men who complained of chronic insomnia and slept fewer than six hours a night. Men with insomnia were more than four times as likely to die as “good sleepers” during the 14-year study, published Wednesday in the journal [...]

7 ways to get the best sleep ever (Health.com) — You’ve done all the obvious stuff — cut out late-night caffeine, made sure your bedroom is dark and cozy, avoided scary movies or struggling with your to-do list right before bed. So why are you still tossing and turning? “Certain habits you’re unaware of could [...]

Why Can’t We Sleep? You point out that 40 million Americans have a chronic sleep disorder and another 30 million have intermittent sleep problems. How long have sleep disorders been on our radar? Probably from the very beginning of time. There were [sleep-promoting] drugs like opium back from the Greeks. You had various theories about [...]

Darker outlook for night owls, study finds A new study, published in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, bears out Africa’s experience: People who tend to stay up late, the so-called “night owls,” have a darker outlook than those who bounce out of bed at the crack of dawn, the “morning larks.”         This [...]

Mental stress spirals with economy I am saddened by the shocking news of strange events that are the result of people who are pushed over the edge by too much stress. I do not want to even imagine the kind of pressure one must feel to kill your wife and children because of the stress [...]