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...Barrett was drawing on work by American psychologist Phillip Kendall to design friends, researchers were fine-tuning their theories on the types of children most prone to anxiety. They now believe that 1 in 5 is born, as Barrett describes it, "physiologically sensitive to stress and certain stimuli." A test for this sees three-month-old babies held by their mothers and exposed to a sudden noise. The heart rate of the sensitive child rises higher and more quickly than the average child's, and remains elevated for longer...
...addition, Siegler lauds the stress-releasing effects of a rap yoga session...
...issues that a college student can face. Before the first semester begins, staff members undergo a week-long intensive training program run by UHS, teaching them how to deal with anything from depression to eating disorders to sexual identity to suicide. While Room 13 services many weighty issues, they stress that one doesn’t need to have a serious problem to visit. “It seems that a lot of people have the wrong impression that Room 13 is only for people when they’re really stressed,” Stephanopoulos says...
...befits a person who lives under constant stress, Sejima says her aim is to create buildings that provide pools of repose within fast-moving cities. She sees her projects as "public spaces where people can be together in one place and talk and interact." It's a soothing vision of leisure that Sejima herself isn't likely to enjoy anytime soon. --By Michiko Toyama
...hard to define, but I love being able to walk around campus and constantly see people I know, at least on some level. But I dislike the level of anxiety that sometimes permeates the air around midterms and finals periods, for example. At those times everyone’s stress rubs off on everyone else! Having just seen my first set of stressful finals period at Harvard, I think spoken word is going to become an increasing outlet for me to express myself in a nonacademic pursuit. Over the next four years I hope I have the courage and creativity...