It is no surprise to me that considering her nutrient-poor, fat-laden diet and stressful life, my mother eventually developed severe gall bladder problems.
Indigestible foods and misdigestion are alsostressful irritations, as are mild recreational poisons such as "soft" drugs, tobacco and alcohol.
If one takes into consideration the entire life history of this individual he will have little cause for surprise at the resort to malingering by this man when he found himself under an especially stressful situation.
In this chapter we have seen how this underlying anomaly served under certain stressful situations to give rise to mental disorder, and have concluded that crime and psychosis must be, in these individuals, branches of the same tree.
Malingering, it will be seen later, appears to certain individuals to be the only possible means of escape from and evasion of a stressful and difficult situation of life.
Thrown back into the same stressful situation, he again finds himself unable to cope with it, becomes melancholy, suspicious, and mildly delusional.
This repeated recourse to mental disease as a refuge from a stressful situation is amply illustrated in a series of cases reported elsewhere.
In other words, should we consider an individual absolutely normal, if, in reaction to somestressful situation, he breaks down mentally and develops a psychosis?
It is a tool almost always resorted to by the weak and incompetent whenever confronted with an especially difficult or stressful situation.
That which is a habitual type of reaction in some individuals, as was illustrated in the foregoing cases, comes to the fore in others only under certain stressful situations of life.
It is perfectly natural that he should resort to malingering of mental disease in his last attempt at evading a stressful situation.
Last night he had slept restlessly because the events of the day had been stressful and uncertain, even if, in their summary, there had been an element of satisfaction.
It was near St. Kitts that the two sailors from the Ramona had been picked up, to tell their story of the stressful hurricane and mutiny.
They had been on the water enough, and in stressful times, too, so that they suffered no qualms.
There was never another opportunity, nor did he again think of the package in the stressful hours that followed.
He contrasted himself in that stressful hour with great-souled Anthony Wilding, and saw himself as he was, a weakling, strong only in vicious ways.
She was a dim figure on the arras of civilization, faintly mobile in the stressful winds of life.
There was no feeling of stressful humanity even in the myriad sounds that, in a sheen of beauty, floated about the day.
No, Barry must not be carried under by the current of stressful emotions, as Chad painfully intimated he himself had been.
Everybody was in trouble now; not one in these stressful times knew where to turn; Julie herself, least of all.
If you cannot or do not want to leave a stressful environment, techniques of relaxation training may benefit you.
As human beings, we are not simple engineering materials that form simple cracks or breaks, and when stressful events are strong enough, we begin to crack or break in ways that are considerably more complex.
Anxiety can give you good reasons for {171} disqualifying yourself from stressful situations and reinforce your belief that you cannot cope.
Relaxation training is a practical skill--it can be very effective {51} and useful in coping with stressful situations.
Resilience and Tolerance to Stress As a consequence of therapy, you come to be less frustrated by stress, able to recover from stressful experiences more quickly.
They are ways of treating symptoms; they can help you continue to cope with stressful situations.
It is a survival skill that can help you protect yourself against being worn down by stressful events that otherwise eventually lead to learned habits of anxiety and tension.
From spiritual heights beyond the spheres, My ear elusive music hears; In stressful hours it falls and hovers, And life is lift to AEonian years.
O fontal wealth of hasting life, By stressful toil made sweet, Stay now thy journey--here oft come Wild sylvan things, Here tender lovers meet.
It's less stressful if I get stuff done than if I let it pile up.
And all putting in and getting nothing out results in stressful times, in business ventures as in the case of individuals.
Her eyes--they were the serene eyes of cool gray that take on slate-blue tints in stressful moments--met his defiantly.
Yes, perhaps she had been doing in a less trying way just what he was seeking to do under more stressful circumstances with Maggie: to arouse him to his best by indirectly working at definite psychological reactions.
