Hello and welcome to the Official Website for Stress Awareness Month 2025. Stress Awareness Month has been held every April, since 1992.
During this annual thirty day period, health care professionals and health promotion experts across the country will join forces to increase public awareness about both the causes and cures for our modern stress epidemic.
“Even though we’ve learned a lot about stress in the past twenty years,”says Dr. Morton C. Orman, M.D., Founder and Director of HRN, “we’ve got a long way to go. New information is now available that could help millions of Americans eliminate their suffering.”
Dr. Orman has invited leading health care organizations across the countryto develop and disseminate helpful educational materials and other information about stress during the month of April. He is also encouraging stress experts and other health care leaders to conduct public forums, discussion groups,and other informative community events.
For more details about the special events and other stress relief resources being made available by Dr. Orman during the month of April, 2025, please click on the additional tabs at the top of this page.
Do you have any forums in Sydney Australia
Rebecca: We don’t set up our own forums but you (and others) are welcome to create your own.
I was hoping to touch base with someone in your organization that will be promoting the activities around this year’s awareness month? Is there a PR/marketing contact that you can refer me to? Thanks!
Joel Frey
Ericsson Media Relations
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Any organization or health care provider can choose to participate in raising awarenss about stress as they see fit. That’s why we don’t give much specific guidance.
not much information about SAM (stress awareness month). How are you “increasing public awareness” exactly?
Any ideas for school projects?
We don’t recommend specific awareness projects. Eacch organization may determine their own form of participation.
Thank you
The goal of “increasing awareness” is being achieved through the promotion of Dr. Orman’s books (note: the first is free and others could potentially be accessed free from a library). I suggest consideration of webpage expansion to better achieve the awareness goal by providing materials or links to materials which could aid interested individuals in identifying methods for increasing awareness – Targeting businesses, schools, etc.
Dr. Quinn: Thanks for the feedback. The purpose for National Stress Awareness Month is for everyone to have an opportunity to share whatever they like to help increase awareness about stress. This website, by itself, is not intended to be a massive source of awareness related information.
Any ideas for school projects? ?
Blink Fitness is using stress awareness month to keeping all news programs off of their screens. They are claiming that the news causes stress. Mindless informercials are ok but local and national news causes stress. I would hope that your organization would not support this policy. As an educator and concerned citizen I think that it is important to have an informed population to better participate in our society. If that added stress makes for a better citizen, so be it. As I am at my gym at 5am, I get all of my traffic and weather information to help me have a stress free commute for my day. By the way no one is forced to watch the news as there are 20+ more screens offering other entertainment. Censorship is never the answer to any problem.
Are there any forms or special free kits/packages that come into email or mail that could help increase awareness of stress?
Annette: There are no downloadable awareness resources here on this website. But if you are interested, you can checkout my private FB group called The League Of Extraordinary Stress Eliminators. There is a free video training course available to everyone who applies and is accepted.
Hello everyone, We are posting resources and research related to stress reduction periodically on our social media pages and website to raise awareness on the effects of stress for children with complex medical conditions and also their caregivers. Our organization is called Eliana’s Light (www.elianaslight.org). Eliana’s Light brings complementary care to children with complex medical conditions and their caregivers to reduce the stress, pain, anxiety, trauma, and depression many experience. By “complementary care”, we mean techniques and approaches that can work alongside traditional medicine such as acupuncture, meditation, mindfulness, yoga, massage, and others. For more information, please visit http://www.elianaslight.org and we invite you to follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/elianaslight) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/elianaslight).
The purpose of Stress Awareness Month stated above is to “increase public awareness about both the causes and cures for our modern stress epidemic”. There is a lot of attention being given to the cures, but not so much given to the causes from what I’ve found online. I’m wondering what those causes are, and in particular how significant a cause is what I call ‘workplace information overload’. This is the consequence of more unstructured information for people to stay on top of in a changing and increasingly complex and deadline-driven work environment. What is the thinking on this?
Brian: You are correct to notice that more attention is given to treating/reducing stress than to understanding its root causes. Information overload, in the workplace and elsewhere, is certaintly a prominent cause of stress in today’s modern society. But I would caution you to note that it is one of many external causes. There are also specific INTERNAL causes of stress which also receive scant attention, even though they are quite important. For instance, how come certain people deal with information overload so well that they experience very little stress from it? What do they do differently? How do they think differently? What internal coping skills do they draw upon, which others might not have learned to use?
Thanks for that. There are undoubtedly a number of causes, including the way we handle such stressful situations internally. I do though have a particular interest in helping organisations reduce the amount of workplace information overload affecting their staff. After 40 years in industry working as an Enterprise Architect, I have developed a solution that I believe has the potential to do exactly that. I would like this to be critiqued/evaluated somehow – any suggestions from anybody?
Hello my name is WandaSunderla, I am the fresh produce giveaways coordinator at Ephesus SDA church. We work with The Mid Ohio Food Bank in Columbus, Ohio. I would love to see if someone from you network would be able to come to my event and share as much information on stress The day of the event is April 6th 2019 beginning at 12 noon. I hope that you would help us with helping our communities. Thank you in advance, looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Wanda: Sorry, but we do not send people out to present at local events. Wishing you the best with your April 6th event.
Dr. Orman, I am an active member of NAMI in my community at least in part because my family has benefitted directly from the organization’s resources. Here is the link to the national organization: https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/NAMI-HelpLine/COVID-19-Information-and-Resources
Additional information via state and local affiliates is also available through that site. Here is their COVID-19 guide: https://www.nami.org/covid-19-guide.
Thank you.