Stress. It’s that six-letter word that manages to track us down and leave us with either a pounding headache or a glazed look in our eyes as we stare with absent abandon at the television screen. Stress can strike all age groups at the most unexpected times. Some people thrive on stress and others crumple at the smallest obstacle in their path. There’s a happy medium to be found and ways of dealing with stress are as varied as the types of stress out there. You’re certainly familiar with work stress. That’s probably the most common reason for stress in the first place. But did you know that there is also relationship stress and child rearing stress?

Stress affects our body in many different ways. Just because you don’t work on Wall Street doesn’t mean you can’t also suffer from stress in the home. Many mothers suffer from the daily stress of raising children and making sure that their kids stay on track. Does that make their stress any different from that experienced by a stockbroker? What about the stress caused by the need to pay bills with money you don’t have? Stress is stress, no two ways about it. But stress caused by different factors can affect the body in different ways. Stress from a high pace job may result in ulcers while stress caused by daily child rearing activities can result in a pounding headache.

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