Stressed Out!
Adjective
increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism
Turns out watching adrenaline-pumping horror films can burn up calories, which could help you lose weight as long as you don't pair the film with buttered popcorn.
Noun
feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, often about something with an uncertain outcome
While our more enjoyable dreams are spurred by wishes and desires, nightmares are a manifestation of other common feelings like stress and anxiety.
Verb
state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully
Individuals, particularly those in stressful situations - such as under arrest or police interrogation - need assistance in understanding and asserting their constitutional rights.
Noun
connection based on kinship
Studies show that watching your friends and family in stressful situations can loosely synchronize your heart rates, a strong manifestation of human bonds.
Noun
loss of strength and energy resulting from mental or physical work
Drone pilots, fighting distant wars from the safety of U.S. bases, still confront some of the same stresses and fatigue that their comrades do on the battlefield.
Adjective
causing feelings of fear or distress
A chorus of cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after the interplanetary rover Curiosity signaled it had survived a harrowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.
Adjective
unable of being explained or accounted for
Gremlins, described as tinkers and tricksters, often took the blame for inexplicable malfunctions in planes. Critics explain gremlin sightings as hallucinations induced from stress.
Verb
end or lessen something unpleasant such as pain or tension
Twenty years ago, the few dogs that were in Beijing stood a chance of landing on a dinner plate. Today, with a lot of stress in people’s lives, having a dog is a way to relieve it.
Adjective
unable to relax because of nervousness, anxiety, or stimulation
Whenever you notice you’re feeling tense and uptight check and see how you’re breathing. Most people under stress either alternate holding their breath with short breaths, or take rapid shallow breaths.
Verb
put through extreme stress
Wracked by terrifying hallucinations, intense mood swings, insomnia and fierce paranoia, journalist Susannah Cahalan spent a month in the hospital with a rare autoimmune disorder that causes the body to attack the brain.