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Think the only person affected by your stress is you? Think again!

According to a new study, your stress can actually rub off onto other people, especially your partner.

Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Technische Universitat Dresden found that watching someone else going through a stressful time, can increase other people’s stress levels.

The study was published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology and was made up of strangers of the opposite sex or loved ones.

According to the research “Empathic stress arose primarily when the observer and stressed individual were partners in a couple relationship and the stressful situation could be directly observed through a one-way mirror.”

While empathic stress may be a little lower if you don’t really know the person, it can increase when someone you love is going through a stressful time,  with 40% of those in the study experiencing increased cortisol levels when a loved one is stressed.

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Hormones are tricky little devils.

It sometimes feel like we’re at their total mercy, and anything can set them off.

The chemical messengers buzzing around inside you pretty much rule your entire system – your appetite, weight, sex drive, cycle, and more.

But hormonal weirdness isn’t just a random occurrence over which you have no control.

Check out the habits that can mess with them.

1. Eating too much chocolate
Eating foods with too much added sugar is directly linked to weight gain and excess pounds can lead your body to become resistant to insulin, the hormone that moves sugar into your bloodstream so your cells can get the energy they need.

2. Stressing out late at night
Normally, levels of the stress hormone cortisol drop at night, which helps you wind down and sleep. But becoming anxious or tense in the p.m. means your cortisol levels keep surging, so you’re too wired to catch Zzz’s.

3. Drinking coffee after 5pm
Cortisol is the culprit again here! Caffeine signals to your body to boost production of cortisol, which can make you feel anxious and definitely not in a sleep-well mindset. Limit yourself to no more than two regular-size cups of coffee a day, preferably before 3 or 4pm.

4. Crash diets
A plunge in body-fat levels due to either a super low-calorie weight-loss regimen or intense exercise sessions lowers estrogen levels, halting your cycle until your body fat returns to a healthy level. Scary stuff.

5. Easing PMS with a sweet treat
Besides leaving you wired, sugar also does a number on brain chemicals that are already thrown for a loop during your PMS week. If your premenstrual symptoms leave you cranky, sugar will just make you feel more out of sorts.

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If the stress is starting to get to you, it is time to take back control. Give yourself five minutes each day to try these incredible stress busting tips:

Have a good stretch
Get up and give your arms and legs a good stretch. It will help release some of the built up tension.

Eat some chocolate
You don’t have to tell us twice. A piece of chocolate will help to regulate your body’s cortisol (stress hormone) levels.

Chew some gum
Five minutes of chewing a piece of gum will work wonders to make you feel relaxed – go on, try it.

Count down from 10
Counting backwards will help to distract you from whatever is stressing you out. It’s easy and you can do it without leaving your desk.

Tense up
Tense up your muscles as much as you can and then slowly release them. You are guaranteed to feel much better.

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According to research, trying to be perfect could be ruining your health.

Fretting about getting everything right – from your job to your style and relationships – can trigger heart disease, IBS and insomnia.

Some experts say it could even be as bad for you as smoking

Dr Danielle Molnar, a psychologist at Brock University, Canada, has suggested that perfectionism should be considered as a risk factor for disease in the same way as obesity and smoking.

“We’re always promoting perfectionism and its benefits of academic and professional achievement, but it’s such a strong factor for so many illnesses, including increased infection and early death, that I think it should be considered by doctors as part of a patient’s long-term health,” said Dr Molnar.

It’s estimated that two in five of us display perfectionist tendencies.

And thanks to social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, increasing numbers are concerned about being – or appearing to be – perfect, said Gordon Flett, professor of health psychology at York University in Canada.

“It’s natural to want to be a perfectionist in one area of your life, such as your job,” he said. “But when it becomes an obsessive need for the perfect job, child, relationship, bank balance and body, it causes extreme stress and can affect not only relationships, but your health.”

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Nobody likes that rushed, panicky feeling that goes along with knowing you are running so, so late for work or college.

Here are a few tips that might make that morning rush a little bit easier to manage!

Unsurprisingly, the secret to a smooth morning lies in preparation and organisation the night before.

1. Pick out your clothes the night before

2. Get up on time

3. Pack your lunch the night before

4. Keep your keys somewhere you’ll actually be able to find them

5. Have breakfast ready to go and keep it simple if you don’t have a lot of time

6. Pack your bag the night before

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Stress, anxiety and worry can be tiresome and exhausting.

Try these tips to reduce your stress levels and overcome any anxiety you may have.

1. Get enough sleep
Sleep is vital in reducing stress as a lack of sleep can actually be a trigger for stress.

2. Drink enough water
Keeping hydrated will help you to be alert and concentrate better. Your lack of focus may be a cause of the stress you are feeling.

3. Meditate
You don’t have to become a meditation expert overnight or anything but simply taking ten minutes before bedtime to close your eyes and focus on your breathing can have big benefits on reducing your stress levels.

4. Talk
Talking to somebody about the reasons you may feel stressed can in fact help you feel less stressed.

5. Exercise
Working out is proven to reduce anxiety levels so get that gym gear on and get moving!

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