Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the 1995 M.C.-Prep showdown had started, however, something had changed. An exuberance skipped about our heads like leaves dancing in a cool breeze. Maybe it was the chance to relieve stress accumulated over college applications, SATs and high school in general. Maybe it was faith. Maybe it was both...
...players stress that Brown is far more than a one-dimensional attack...
First-year stress seemed to hit Ge harder than others...
...five students worries that their stress or depression is "outside the norm." Unfortunately, not many college students or faculty are aware that the first signs of mental illness--such as depression or anxiety disorders--often begin between the ages of 18 and 25, nor are they alert to the symptoms. To make matters worse, many students are on their own for the first time, and unfamiliar with the support network that could recognize troubling signs and help them...
Boston University psychiatrist Janet Osterman is having trouble recruiting survivors for a research project on awareness at Boston Medical Center because so many refuse to enter the hospital to be interviewed. Osterman says her subjects display all the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, including flashbacks, irrational fears and, particularly common, severe insomnia. "They are afraid to go to sleep," she explains. "Letting go feels too much like going under anesthesia...