Word: stress
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Brown stepped up in the absence of top scorer Barbara Maloni, who will be out at least a month with multiple stress fractures...
...Denial then came into play. Heavily. In a sort of inverted post-traumatic stress disorder, I slowly began focusing in on all the cool things that had happened. The few moments of balance and control I had felt on the skis (out of hours of pounding and snow-eating) and the excitement of working out on the actual Olympic course at Lake Placid (even though I was as far from Olympic glory as I was from being an astronaut) were much more vivid in my memory than the nasty, discouraging, humiliating, painful part of the trip, and by the time...
...what are the schools' responsibilities to at-risk students, particularly those who may be genetically predisposed to mental illness? College can be a breeding ground for psychiatric problems. Poor eating habits, irregular sleeping patterns and experimentation with drugs and alcohol--especially combined with the academic stress of college life--may all play roles in triggering mental problems. Additionally, many of the major psychiatric illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, often do not manifest themselves until the late teens or early...
...point out that parents must play a role too--by checking out a college's psychological services in advance and by not putting too much pressure on kids. Says Ed Hu, college counselor at Harvard-Westlake, a Los Angeles prep school: "They're just pushing their kids, causing the stress, not aware of the toll...
Neurobiology is seen by many clinicians and researchers as the key to understanding mental illnesses, while others stress the interrelation between mind, brain and behavior...