This is an interesting article that cites an AP/MTV study showing a bunch of things:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_en_ot/youth_poll_stress It shows that young people are stressed out today and that more young women report being stressed more than young men. It says middle income people are more stressed than lower or upper classes. Inner city people are more stressed than rural peeps. And that overall only 25% of young people feel safe from a terrorist attack, but when asked if it is a major concern few report that it is.
I have so many thoughts here. Is it that young women don't deal with stress as well as young men or is it that young women are more likely to report that? Are people in upper and lower classes not as stressed because they feel their futures are kind of determined? The stress in cities over rural areas makes sense. The terrorist thing is well the terrorist thing.
When you read the article you will see a phenomenon I have seen growing over the past 7 years. It seems no matter where I go just about every young person I meet is going through the motions of life in some way or another and never taking time for themselves to appreciate the day or focus on their mental health. All of this pressure and STRESS certainly adds to it! May you have a less stressful day and if you are stressed, well apparently you're not alone!
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Reporting stress is a whole nother thing than having stress---when I think about people who are likely to report stress, and think about people who are unlikely to report stress, I start to think there's no adequate way to research stress.
hello is now fashionable to stress the problem is that we allow to affect us in everything we do
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