Not only are they experiencing the normal stress of management but this imminent financial amputation is also pushing many to their limit.

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Intensity and duration of these feelings distinguish a normal level of stress from a psychological condition, Kleiman said.

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Abbreviations and fragments are a language's normal response to stress.

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Grieving and emotional stress are normal and common.

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But Celtic sources stress that it is their normal practice to review contracts at the end of each season.

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The experts stress that nighttime awakenings are perfectly normal -- much more normal, in fact, than the elusive solid eight hours people think they should be getting.

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The cortisol levels of the girls who were soothed by their mothers--either in person or on the phone--started dropping immediately after the stress test, and returned to normal after about a half-hour.

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One of the reasons for this, as demonstrated in a recent paper by researchers at Yale medical school, is that when a person experiences extreme stress, or just goes through the normal process of aging, the prefrontal cortex accumulates cyclic-AMP.

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The scientists could see that this activity had the effect of reducing stress levels, indicated by the return to the animals' normal activities of self-scratching and self-grooming.

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One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program, is "designed to help address those common and normal reactions to war experiences, " says a military Web site.

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