Have you ever wondered how you manage to get through a particularly stressful period -- whether it's an intense deadline at work, final exams in school or a spate of holiday houseguests -- only to get sick after the stress has lifted? It's not a fluke. It's a phenomenon that's often referred to as "the let-down effect," a pattern in which people come down with an illness or develop flare-ups of a chronic condition not during a concentrated period of stress but after it dissipates, explains psychologist Marc Schoen, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California--Los Angeles and the author of "When Relaxation Is Hazardous to Your...
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