For partners and spouses, "it is vital that they learn to create a buffer between the person's reaction to stress and their own experience, " says Robert Lawrence Friedman, president of Stress Solutions, a Forest Hills, N.

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However, Robert Lawrence found few creature comforts on a recent trip to London which took twice the time it should have.

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Psychotherapist Robert Lawrence Friedman, president of Stress Solutions, a Forest Hills, N.

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