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    Witkin-Lanoil, Georgia. The Female Stress Syndrome: How to Recognize and Live with It. NewYork: Newmarket Press, 1984. Print.

    Pg 13-Explanation of stressPg 17- Physical stress symptoms: ulcerative colitis, peptic ulcer, irritable bowel syndrome, heartattack, high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, hyperventilation, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis,allergies, skin disorders, headaches, swallowing difficulties, heartburn, nausea, stomach knots,cold sweats, neck aches, chronic fatigue, dizziness, chest pains, backaches, urinary frequency,muscle spasms, memory impairment, panic attacks, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia.

    Pg 19- Unique women side effects of stress: Amenorrhea (loss of menstruation), premenstrualtension/ headache complex, postpartum depression, menopausal melancholia, vaginismus(painful intercourse), frigidity (inhibited sexual arousal), anorgasm, infertility. More frequent inwomen: Anorexia, bulimia, anxiety neurosis, depressive psychosis.

    Pg 36-Individual factors in FSS: rate of hormonal change amount of hormonal depletion,physical fitness, meaning of age.

    Pg 52 Nuture Mentration and societys mixed messages. for many women, sexual stressreflects negative associations with female body functions.

    Pg 68- Socialization statistics

    Pg 71- If girls are treated as though their aggressive, assertive, and achieving impulses are

    unexpected and even undesirable, we can logically anticipate a high anxiety level in young girlsas they struggle to control these natural impulses.

    Pg 75- Fear of F ailure vs Need for Acheivement: Women with a high fear of failure willconstantly handicap themselves and increase their own strrss in order to defend themselvesagsibst failure with excuses.

    Pg 135-147- Hidden stress: driving, waiting, entertaining, noise, phobias, guilt, life events,

    Pg 181-199- Living with Female Stress.

    Braiker, Harriet B. The Type E Woman: How to Overcome thr Stress of Being Everything to Everybody. New York: Signet Press, 1987. Print.

    Pg 5- Success for achievement -orientated women today is defined as achievement in bothrealms: career and personal. But the success formula is a calculus that often yields enormousfrustration and exhaustion.

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    Pg 7- Much of the stress arises because women often feel deep conflict between work and love,between competing demands for their time and attention

    Pg 9 Type A man: an action-emotion complex that can be observed in any person who isaggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less

    time

    Pg 14- instead of single-minded, one-dimensional Type A personality that strives fore more andmore and more, Type E women feel pulled in multiple directions by a seemingly endless streamof demands from family, work, husbands or boyfriends, and community and/or professionalorgs. they want to keep everyones approval and they cope with the demands by trying to do itall, often at a substantial cost to their emotional and physical well-being.

    Pg 16- the really dangerous part of the Type E personality is the self-perpetuating andultimately self- destructive nature of the stress cycle it produces the more you do, the more you

    have to get done.Pg 17- type E stress is a cognitive -behavioral syndrome. This means that really to get a grip onher stress problems, the Type E high-achieving woman must first understand the underlyingroots of the problem in psychological terms- how she thinks..

    Pg 46- last paragrapgh- women, achievement, and stress.

    Pg 49- In women, the need to achieve is virtually fused to the need for what psychologists callaffiliation, or need for social approval and acceptance- by both women and, particularly, men.

    Pg 50- Fear of success!!

    Pg 52- In the first place.loss of femininity and sexual desirability.

    Pg 59- Achievement guilt

    Pg 61- Women have filter that enhances the intensity of negative information while minimizingor discounting the positive feedback. with this distorted filter on your perceptions, negativefeedback form significant other people in your life can spiral into full- scale depression

    Pg 192- girls are conditioned early in life to adapt their behavior according to their care -focusedmorality. As a consequence, women are predisposed toward behavior that meets the needs of others.

    Pg 197- positive and negative reinforcements (internal and external) solidify mental state

    Ali, Alisha, and Dana C Jack. Introduction: Culture, Self -Silencing, and Depression: AContextual- Relational Perspective. Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender

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    in the Social World. Ed. Ali, Alisha and Dana C Jack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 3-17. Print.

    Pg 5- A male -centered world tells women who they are or who they should be, especially inintimate relationships. Self-silencing is prescribed by norms, vales, and images dictating what

    women are supposed to be like: pleasing, unselfish, loving.

    Gordon, Richard A. Drugs Dont Talk: Do Medication and Biological Psychiatry Contribute toSilencing the Self? Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the SocialWorld. Ed. Ali, Alisha and Dana C Jack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 47-72. Print.

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    Outline

    I. Introduction

    II. Stress

    a. General

    b. As related to women

    III. Symptoms

    IV. Causes and Solutions

    a. Physical

    b. Biological

    V. Conclusion