The high-stress, high visibility papal position will certainly be a test of his endurance.
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One high-stress trip can result in a relationship flameout or the discovery of true love.
The high-stress work often puts these airmen on the razor's edge between saving a life and losing their own.
Having hundred of combat missions in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam, he knew about making decisions in high-stress environments.
Some research suggests that it helps relieve stress under high-stress conditions (such as loss of a loved one, divorce, job loss, etc).
"When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite, " says Loehr.
The practice is becoming more and more prevalent among high-stress jobs, with everyone from hedge fund founders, Facebook employees, and Russell Simmons following suit.
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You may think you have the worst job in America but are you always on call and facing a deadline, working in a high-stress environment, all for very little pay?
Diners haven't been exposed to quality fat in recent years because pigs raised on a bad diet or living in high-stress environments will have yellowish fat that smells putrid.
Levity is needed in a high-stress profession like medicine.
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The addition of the Fan Drive Gear System added only seven moving parts, but the 18-inch-diameter gearbox had to be engineered to withstand thousands of high-stress takeoffs and landings without maintenance.
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Companies that push emotions out of their corporate culture, claiming that they do not belong in business, will more than likely find it difficult to emerge successfully during these crisis and high-stress moments.
Too-high stress hormone levels are directly linked to gastrointestinal problems, lowered immune response, anxiety disorders and depression.
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Confronted with one son who wanted to make a film about how tests were ruining his high school, and another son whose stress over the high-stakes tests led him to scratch his legs during his sleep, Michele decided to take the problem seriously.
Even after 25 years in the US, a majority of those surveyed showed high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Research published by Jones and his colleagues in 2011 found that 15.4% of Virginia Tech students experienced high levels of post-traumatic stress three to four months after the shootings.
The Director-General's comments were in response to the research study conducted jointly by New York University and Bahcesehir University which revealed high level of post-traumatic stress and severe depression amongst the children in the refugee camps.
The amount of homework, the high-stakes testing, and other stress factors was leading to anxiety and depression at home.
Some people with herpes take antiviral drugs for years, while others just use them periodically -- for example, when they're starting a new relationship or anticipating a high-pressure situation. (Stress can up the risk of a herpes outbreak.) "It really is a very personal decision for patients, " Johnston says.
According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
If you look at a population and say, OK, here are people who have a high proportion of unaccompanied men, very high stress levels because of the immigration experience, some - there's some evidence of untreated STDs being fairly high.
"That is an all-time high, " he notes, adding that the stress is apparent in rising bankruptcies and the recession-like 5% annual growth in consumer credit.
JPMorgan Chase's debt-market stress tests foresaw a 40% increase in corporate spreads, but high-yield spreads in 2007-09 increased many times over.
It uses high-tech medicine sparingly to treat the most serious conditions while employing nutrition, exercise, stress-reduction and other simple, low-cost (or free) interventions to foster long-term health and resilience.
Stress forces us to focus on high-impact areas of our business, cut out dead wood and inefficiencies, and implement plans for faster execution.
Johnson says he tries to act as a mentor, or life coach, for his students, helping them handle the off-court stress of trying to cut high enough grades and test scores for an Ivy League college.
Whereas a Cox presidency would be high on elegant deal-making, a Martin one would stress fair dealing.
What's clear for now, he emphasizes, is that people who suffer from high stress levels can foster better and more creative problem-solving simply by taking a few moments to focus on something that's personally important to them.
Seventy-six million US Adults now characterize their stress as high or severe.
The subjects who were suffering from high levels of chronic stress in the past month had impaired problem-solving performance by a wide margin.
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