Stress is a part and parcel of life, and we will experience stress through out our lives in various degrees. Hence it is difficult to control stress in our lives. Ideally there is no standard pharmaceutical therapy for the management of daily stress like the stress due to work or family-related. Drinking to relieve stress is an example of "self-medication" which includes the dangerous practices of prescription and nonprescription drug abuse. The symptoms of stress are chronic anxiety, restlessness and sleeping disorders.

Tension-Type Headache(TTH)

A common but debilitating stress effect is tension-type headache (TTH), caused by fluctuations in blood circulation and muscle tension, especially in scalp and face. Antidepressant medication has been shown to be effective in reducing symptoms of chronic tension-type headache (TTH). When TTHs occur near daily or very frequently (over 15 days per month), extending to at least a six-month period of time, they are termed chronic TTHs. It showed that both the medical therapy with tricyclic antidepressant medication and stress management therapy were more effective in reducing headache activity, headache-related disability, and pain.