Distress tolerance is a person's ability to manage actual or perceived emotional distress. It also involves making it through an emotional incident without making it worse. People who have low ...

We are all guilty of unhealthy coping at times. For example, we might overeat when feeling anxiety, or overspend when we feel dissatisfied or lacking in confidence. It’s natural to use the tools that ...

The responses of humans to potential or actual tissue damage are parts of a complex experience that has sensory qualities and motivational and emotional consequences. The nervous system encodes the ...

Psychological distress is highly prevalent in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), however, remains under-recognised and under-treated. A qualitative study using semi-structured ...

Stress has been viewed as a negative phenomenon, although not all stress is bad. Actually, there are certain types of stress that can be a motivation, can enhance performance and make you grow. Stress ...

Note: For the latest information on this topic, read our 2022 post. One-third of Americans (33%) have experienced high levels of psychological distress at some point during the extended period of ...

Distress screening has been increasingly incorporated into oncology care since the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer made it an accreditation standard for cancer centers in the United ...

One of the more intriguing paradoxes emerging from the rubble of the COVID-19 pandemic is new evidence suggesting that older adults—those at the greatest risk of severe illness and death from the ...