Emotional stress

How not to care online: Survival guide for staying human

Your nervous system is under siege, and the people creating that content are counting on exactly this reaction.

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Israelis' Food Choices After October 7 Reveal How Emotion Quietly Shapes Our Economy

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Israeli study reveals a link between prolonged psychological stress and cancer

ELEVATED EMOTIONAL connection among people who have suffered in which one person’s emotions are felt and understood by another without explicit explanation could increase vulnerability to personal distress.

Hebrew University study discovers hidden mental health risks for youth during war


Tips to better your emotional intelligence and become a better person

Emotional intelligence is essential for self-improvement and bettering your health and social relationships. Here are four basic principles from an 80-year study that can help.

 FOCUS ON the positive in others.

Stressed? Here's 17 quick ways to calm yourself down

You can't completely avoid stress in life, but you can learn to manage it better. There is no doubt that we'd be more satisfied living lives full of peace and calm instead of pressure and stress.

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How can you help your child when you don't know what's wrong?

When kids are in a certain mood, a parent's role is first of all to give tools to deal with what their feeling, and not necessarily to solve all their problems.

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How does social media impact your emotional health? - study

The study offers a new empirically tested model for understanding how our use of social media is associated with a cluster of specific personality and behavioral traits.

Woman with smartphone is seen in front of displayed social media logos in this illustration taken, May 25, 2021.

7 ways to offer support and Jewish strength to friends or loved ones facing cancer

This is especially the case for young people who might never have had a family member or friend diagnosed with cancer before.

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10 ways to deal with feeling overwhelmed and help ourselves

While exhausted and overwhelmed as a country, it behooves each of us to rise up in spite of our malaise, and come up with an action plan that strengthens us all.

 FOCUS ON the positive in others.

Good news reports can make negative news more bearable - study

The authors said they hope their results would push the media to incorporate more positive coverage and constructive or solution-oriented framing for complex, important issues.

 Good news reports: Can they make the bad news more emotionally bearable? (Illustrative)

Overwhelmed at your computer? Close some tabs - study

Researchers conducted remote interviews via video conferencing software with 17 total participants in order to collect data.

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Israel in crisis: Political, security stress threaten peace of mind

A lot of circumstances can lead to stress and, unfortunately, the nature of Israel doesn’t help prevent that. But eventually, the sirens are quiet.

 POLICE BLAST water cannons to disperse protesters in Tel Aviv, March 27.

All for the best? Sometimes positive thinking does more harm than good

Recent years have led everyone to attempt positivity at all times. However the reality is that things won't "be ok" if we do nothing - and not everything is for the better.

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