Word: stress
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When veterans of America's two current wars - Iraq and Afghanistan - tried to sue the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to process thousands of claims for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the Department waved them off saying they had no right to do so. The VA said that Congress had set up an administrative - not judicial - process for evaluating individual disability claims. The veterans, it declared, just had to wait for bureaucracy to take its course - no matter that it has a backlog of 600,000 unresolved claims, each of which can take up to six months or more...
...Senator Clinton may have finally understood the need for a more forward-looking message in the waning hours of the New Hampshire campaign. She talked more about voters and less about herself. The pundits who said that stress was getting to her when her eyes welled with tears missed the fact that to many of us, she looked more human and less calculating than the candidate we'd seen up until then. On election night, she commanded the stage. We saw her husband for only a brief embrace, and the familiar faces from the previous administration that had flanked...
What's not so clear is why that might be. The relationship between stress, psychological problems and coronary disease or other physical woes is still not well understood. But it is the subject of intense scientific scrutiny. Many other researchers are trying to understand the interaction between mood disturbances like anxiety or depression and other health problems...
...Reading period] is the time when students are under the most amount of stress,” Holoshitz said...
...Friday, Lamont Library hosted “BSC Office Hours,” a two-hour session designed to give students the opportunity to converse with its counselors about topics ranging from time management skills to stress relief techniques...