April is National Stress Awareness Month. Honestly, I gotta wonder about the guy who thought it would be a good idea to spend 30 whole days becoming aware of stress. I mean focusing 720 hours on ...

In this excerpt from KCUR's podcast "Seeking A Scientist," host Kate the Chemist set out to understand the science behind everyday stress and some helpful ways to cope. Are you feeling stressed? If ...

How many times have you said “I’m stressed,” and meant “I’m anxious?” Or mentioned having anxiety, without ever getting an official diagnosis? If you’re like most of us, the answer is probably “a lot.

Stress is one thing that seems both certain and predictable. Every generation goes through periods of extreme stress, and there's some argument out there about which era was most stressful. Was it ...

Have you given any thought to your cortisol levels lately? The so-called “stress hormone” has become a popular scapegoat, blamed for everything from exhaustion and bloating to anxiety, brain fog, ...

Answer: It could be. Stress kills. Rarely, but not never. And then there is anxiety, which subsumes a host of related diagnoses. The terms are often co-mingled, with the latter tending to diffuse the ...

Like many of you, I’ve found parenting incredibly difficult. When I had my first daughter back in 2010, I experienced severe postnatal depression, something common in Australia, where one in five ...

Too often, as college students, we find ourselves saying “I’m so stressed out.” Time after time, we refer to stress as impending tasks to be done, difficult assignments, or exams worth half of our ...

The Oura Daytime Stress raises a good question: How closely do you want to track your stress levels? Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Oura recently released a new feature for its popular sleep-tracking ...

DEAR ERIC: I’m stressed out trying to maintain a friendship with someone from high school who reconnected with me a couple of years ago. We were good friends when we were younger but by the time high ...