Losing your home is a nightmare—enough to make you sick to your stomach, and then some. Just how stressful is it to go through a foreclosure? A new study indicates that a rise in foreclosures correlates to an increase in serious hypertension problems, ER visits, and suicide attempts.
A trio of new studies indicates that to live a long and healthy life, one should have a job—just one that doesn’t require exceptionally long hours. And it seems like getting out and shopping regularly seems to extend one’s life in the golden years. So long as unemployment or a stressful job hasn’t already killed [...]
In a recent poll, the top cause of stress is money, followed by work and the economy—which directly involve money. So basically, it all comes down to moolah. We’re all stressed about money, and/or not having enough of it, and/or not knowing where in the world to get more.
In light of the economic downturn, consumers have been scaling back—on food that’s actually good for them. Sales of potato chips and other quick-payoff snacks are way up, and even though people are cooking at home rather than dining out to save money, what they’re preparing in the kitchen is more likely than ever to [...]
You might think that a financial crisis and a dreary, prolonged economic downturn might be a total bummer. People wouldn’t find much of anything funny, and they wouldn’t exactly be in the mood for other kinds of fun, either. Actually, it appears the opposite is true: In tough times, people seek out releases more than [...]
Let’s see. In the years preceding and all throughout my current pregnancy, my mom’s advanced cancer got progressively worse. I traveled to Japan many times to help out. On one visit in 2006, she nearly died on the operating table as I waited outside. On the last visit, I crashed their car. And last month, [...]
…or at least it does me. When I’m overwhelmed by deadlines, I say and do some dumb things. I alternately babble or go mute at meetings, I snap at my husband when he calls, and I barely suppress murderous feelings toward tourists who block my path in Times Square. Even my body becomes unintelligent, refusing [...]
We celebrated my kid’s third birthday yesterday. Early thoughts of pony rides and poolside clown shows gave way to a homemade luau, and only because all the accoutrements were on sale at Party City. What kind of moron would stress about a home party for a 3-year-old and her scabby-kneed cousins? What can I say–I’m [...]
Are you in love with your Work Self? Do you fly from crisis to crisis, stop client bullets with your teeth, hoist massive accounts with one finger? Do colleagues speak to you with respect, laugh at your jokes, let you win–I mean, lose to your superior game at golf? And then you get home, and [...]
Having recently found myself hospitalized for a stress-related illness, I’ve been thinking a lot about stress: what it is, what causes it, and how to get rid of it. It’s stressing me out. Misery loves company, so I was inappropriately delighted to learn practically everyone in America is totally, neurotically stressed. That’s according to the [...]
