Stress-to-Health Mapper
PROMap how occupational, financial, and relational stress triggers physical symptoms through HPA axis pathways. Personalized interventions using validated PSS-10 and SSS-8 assessments.
Example Usage
“I’ve been job searching for 3 months. My back pain and migraines have gotten worse. I wake up at 3 AM worried about money. Constant neck and shoulder tension. My doctor found nothing wrong. How is job stress creating these physical symptoms, and what can I do about it?”
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Suggested Customization
| Description | Default | Your Value |
|---|---|---|
| Occupational stress impact multiplier (>1.0 amplifies for career-central users) | 1.0 | |
| Financial stress impact multiplier (increase for precarious finances) | 1.0 | |
| Relationship stress multiplier (increase for unstable relationships) | 1.0 | |
| Daily stress-management duration in minutes | 10 | |
| Frequency of tracking: daily, weekly, or biweekly | weekly | |
| Days until recommending professional referral | 14 | |
| SSS-8 score threshold for specialist consultation (4-16 range) | 8 | |
| Modality preference: cognitive, somatic, environmental, or mixed | mixed |
The Stress-to-Health Mapper helps users understand and address the bidirectional relationship between psychosocial stressors and physical health symptoms, using validated clinical tools and evidence-based interventions.
Research Sources
This skill was built using research from these authoritative sources:
- Comprehensive Review of Chronic Stress Pathways Synthesizes neurological and immune pathways linking stress to disease; explains genetic mechanisms
- Perceived Stress Scale: Reliability & Validity Gold-standard PSS-10 questionnaire for stress measurement; validated across 12+ languages
- Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8) 8-item tool for symptom burden assessment; correlates with depression, anxiety, healthcare use
- Psychosomatic Disorder: Cleveland Clinic Clinical overview of psychosomatic disorders; lists common symptoms and treatment approaches
- Stress & Cardiovascular Disease Pathway Details amygdala to bone marrow to arterial inflammation pathway; financial stress cardiovascular impacts
- MBSR vs CBT for Chronic Pain Compares evidence-based interventions; shows both reduce catastrophizing and increase self-efficacy
- Occupational Stress & Physical Health Qualitative research on work stress manifestations: fatigue, headaches, sleep issues, thyroid problems
- Measures of Psychosocial Stress Reviews validated instruments: PSS, Life Events List, ACE, Trauma History Questionnaire
- Somatic Manifestation of Distress Explains stress-symptom mechanisms; describes autogenic training for autonomic dysregulation
- Gut-Brain Axis in Psychosomatic Disorders Explores gut-brain mechanisms; psychological stress affects microbiota and triggers IBS