Stress, Anxiety and Tension - Women's Health

Stress and Tension

Stress affects women every day - job stress, family stress, life stress. Since many woman try to be everything to everyone, this can cause a great deal of stress in their life.

Stress while hard to define, certainly does exist and causes detrimental health effects in many women's lives. Stress normally occurs when the ability to cope with many stressors becomes overwhelming and coping skills are reduced (or may not have been high in the first place).

Stress can manifest in many ways and is known to aggravate many health conditions - it makes them much worse.

Take care of the stress in your life by finding ways to reduce it - learn better strategies to cope with the stress.

This part of the site looks at every aspect of stress and anxiety.

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Last reviewed: 30 September 2007 || Last updated: 12 August 2009

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Disclaimer: This guide is not intended to be used for diagnostic or prescriptive purposes. For any treatment or diagnosis of illness, please see your doctor.

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