Stress Less
“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers”
· 55% of Americans are stressed during the day.
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· 77% of American adults report that the future of our nation is a large source of their stress.
· More than 1 in 3 workers (39%) report that workload is their main cause of stress.
· 4 out of every 5 of U.S. workers (80%) are stressed due to ineffective communication at work.
· More than 1 out of 2 working women (62%) in the U.S. as well as Canada reported feeling stressed on a daily basis compared to just over 1 out of 2 working men (52%).
· 3 out of 4 high schoolers and 1 out of 2 middle schoolers describe themselves as “always or often feeling stressed” by their homework. (The Washington Post, 2019)
· Almost 1 in 2 high school students (45%) report feeling stressed out all the time. (Global NewsWire)
· Stress, anxiety, and depression cost the global economy around $1 trillion in lost productivity, and approximately 1 million workers don’t show up to work every day due to the stress they’ve experienced at work.
Statistics from The American Institute of Stress
Stress is traffic on the BQE, student loans, caretaking for a sick or elderly relative, thinking of the future, remembering the past, the dark, no money, unemployment, loved one’s addiction.
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Stress is a physical and emotional reaction that people experience when they come face to face with challenges in life. It has also been defined as a state of worry or mental and physical tension caused by a difficult situation. If stress were embodied in an animal, it would be a constrictor - non-venomous, camouflaged, squeezing and suffocating, affecting blood circulation. Ironically, a group of boas is called a knot. And that’s exactly what happens physically inside your gut – knots.
What stresses you? What stresses you out? Do you have a game plan to face and overcome stress?
April is recognized as National Stress Awareness Month in order to bring attention to the negative impact of stress.
Why don’t you take a stress screener test below?
Stress Screener
What do you do to lower your stress levels? Share below.
“This life. This night. Your story. Your pain. Your hope. It matters. All of it matters.”