All The Stressed Out People

Often they are working women.

But people with no employment and no financial responsibility are not immune.

It is surely the illness of our time for everyone complains of it sometimes as if it has a specific treatment and they think I can change the deficient choices they made several years ago in their lives to make things fine and dandy with an instant prescription.  W.H. Auden wrote the (long) poem ” Age of Anxiety” in 1947 or so describing man’s attempt to find meaning and substance in an industrialized world.

He wrote prose, too, and has the requisite website of admirers, even though right now, with computerization, is surely the “Age of Even More Anxiety.”

Search for meaning? Computers are now so powerful we can’t often tell what is computer and what is human, let alone what the difference means.

I am not alone here, An estimated 70% of all physician visits and 80% of all chronic illness is associated with stress.

The threshold is obviously a function of the individual. One person lives an event as invigorating; another one lives it as a crushing stress.

The prevalence of people who complain they are battling stress is only matched by the multiplicity of internet sites proclaiming they offer various modes of relief from stress.

This one is as good as any.

I agree with the author that the stress-free life is impossible. We all can’t suddenly walk off and become Zen monks.

Religious faith is great if you have it. There are a lot of instructions for various kinds of meditation.

People should help each other deal with stress.

Choose those who feel good to be around, and cultivate them.

Every once in a while, remember to breathe.