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"We all have a little stress in our day-to-today&amp;amp;#8212;and that&amp;#x27;s actually not a bad thing. Stress can release doses of adrenaline that are linked to brain health benefits and can even boost your immunity with a dose of the hormone cortisol. But too much prolonged stress isn&amp;#x27;t a good thing&amp;amp;#8212;it can impact your own health (in that it&amp;#x27;s possibly bad for your immune, cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and central nervous systems), and it can even negatively impact your relationships. So it&amp;#x27;s always a good thing to have a pulse check to see how stressed out you really are&amp;amp;#8212;because it&amp;#x27;s easy to chalk up your anxiety to something else. That&amp;#x27;s why this test that was developed for National Stress Awareness Day (today!) from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, via the BBC, is cool. You answer questions like, &amp;quot;How often do you find yourself being irritable with friends and family&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Do you ever feel nauseous without being unwell,&amp;quot; scoring each from zero to four. What&amp;#x27;s especially neat is the test explains why each question is asked&amp;amp;#8212;for example, &amp;quot;Stress can often cause people to feel sick and nauseous.&amp;quot; I scored a 19 out of 32, which means I have &amp;quot;medium stress,&amp;quot; and that I &amp;quot;may not always be coping with the day-to-day pressure [I am] under.&amp;quot; (Sounds just about right, unfortunately. Looks like I have a date with some tea and yoga in my near future!) Try the test! What&amp;#x27;s your score? And how stressed do you feel lately?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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