Tag Archives: Health
The strange psychology of stress and burnout
You shouldn’t underestimate the positive power of having a degree of stress in your life. Identifying the tipping point, where stress turns to burnout, is the key.
By Alina Dizik
As a neonatal nurse, Jennifer Welker learned to thrive under stress.
Rather than allowing the pain of handling a sick infant to affect her, Welker deftly handled some of the most challenging moments in her career, and quickly moved on from difficult situations.
She credits her efficiency to the advantages of working under stress. Harnessing the innate pressure that came with her role, she says, improved her productivity and performance. Still, it was a fine line between harnessing the pressure and ignoring it altogether.
How to induce sleep without drugs
By Rhea Wessel
Kerstin Schneiderbauer, a freelance data analyst, was having trouble sleeping.
I never really closed the office door
Her mind would keep running through her work and to-do lists throughout the night when she was overloaded with projects.
When she wasn’t working through an assignment, worrying about where the next one was coming from interrupted her night’s rest. Read more »
The science of “hangry” — how low blood sugar makes you a monster
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You may have heard the term “hangry” before — the word for the state of being both hungry and angry. As in: “I’m so hangry that I yelled at my boss. Someone please pass me a banana.”
there’s a growing body of evidence that being hangry is a real thing
But it’s not just weird slang. There’s a growing body of scientific evidence that being hangry is a completely real thing — and that low blood sugar leads to bad behavior.
Case in point: in a study published in 2014 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers showed that married couples get increasingly angry and mean towards one another when their blood sugar is low.
