But what happens when that stress builds and builds, until we don’t get to step away?

That includes things like persistent headaches and earaches, along with jaw pain.

(Only about 20 percent of reported cases do.)

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They also say as much as 70 percent of cases are directly related to stress.

You’re having trouble learning something new

We’ve all been there.

We’re trying to learn something new, and we just can’t seem to concentrate.

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They found that acute stress releases a molecule called corticotropin, which interferes with the process of learning.

Long-term stress has been found to have some pretty disturbing effects on other parts of the brain, too.

It happens to women more than men, and it’s more common among people over 50 years old.

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The protein is related to one of the body’s common responses to allergies: inflammation.

Overeating and weight gain

Stress has a strange relationship with our eating habits.

Usually, our stress responses disappear when the stressor disappears.

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Instead of suppressing every urge that’s not considered vital to our immediate survival, cortisol increases our motivation.

Biologically, comfort food is exactly that.

These sacs control the absorption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide, and sometimes they collapse.

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A sigh reinflates the sacs, keeping things moving as needed.

At home, you might be doing the same thing on a smaller scale.

Charles B. Swanikof the University of Delaware, there’s usually two things at work here.

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One is how distracted we are at that particular moment, and the other is stress.

Strangely, stress-related clumsiness might not be restricted only to you.

Their findings suggested that children born to mothers experiencing stressful life events were more clumsy than other children.

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It’s thought that chronic stress interferes with receptors in the brain, making us susceptible to chronic itch.

According to studies cited byScientific American, that might not be the case at all.

According to clinical psychologistDr.

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It used to be called Dream Anxiety Disorder, and it’s more common in girls and women.

If that’s the case, what do you do?

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