What Medications Help Relieve Stress?

What Medications Help Relieve Stress? (0:46)

For normal everyday stressors, medication is ineffective. In this video, Elissa Epel, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco explains that daily stress deals with how we interpret the world and cope.

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If stress is coming to us, through our preception and how we're interpreting the world, a pill doesn't change that. Medications are good for helping people through crisis or for initial severe states of distress or having severe depression for example, but they really don't help us deal with the types of normal and every day stressors.

Because those are really problems of kind of how we see the world and how we cope with it.