Why are we more stressed now than ever before?

1. Modern Day Causes of Stress
Euanne Lynne
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2. Modern Day Causes of Stress
In today's modern and busy society, many people suffer from stress. From
school-going children coping with their heavy school workload, enrichment
classes their parents send them to, examinations which determine their course
of study in future, to dealing with peer-pressure and growing up and puberty.
Adults have to deal with tight deadlines, unreasonable bosses and customers,
and surviving in the jungle of office politics, while tending to their needs of
their spouses and children. Even retirees and the aged could also be feeling
some form of stress. This is most severe when they have very little control in
trying to meet their daily demands or needs. Physical and psychological
isolation will make a person even more vulnerable to stress. The lack of control
over the situation or uncertainty of the future contributes to stress.
Studies have shown that up to 40% of young people to 80% of workers report
facing some form of stress. Stress costs corporations a huge sum of money
annually in medical costs, turnover and absenteeism. It also makes a large
percentage of companies struggle to retain their top employees.
With the ever-increasing rate of connectivity via the internet, mobile phone,
emails etc, we see busy executives working furiously at their laptops or firing
emails from their Blackberry or smartphones. People now spend a large part of
their waking hours checking their emails and Facebook pages, tweeting,
chatting, updating their blogs etc and this invariably takes away their time
from what they should be doing - their work or their time with their families.
This will in turn lead to a sense of being overwhelmed when work starts piling
up, with an ever-growing list of chores and unfinished tasks. And that's when
stress starts to be felt. The lack of proper and effective time management is
always one of the top causes of stress in our lives.
Emotional trauma, even if it is low-grade and ongoing, fear and grief, as well as
bio-chemical issues such as blood sugar regulation problems, can also be likely
causes of stress.
However, we do need stress in our lives because it has many positive benefits.
It provides us with challenges and chances to evaluate our values and
strengths. Stress can show us how to handle situations under pressure without
having a mental breakdown. It tests our flexibility and adaptability for
unanticipated changes. Normally, events we consider unimportant can be
stressful. This gives us an ability to measure what is out of the ordinary. We
need to be able to identify the signs of stress in our daily lives, to turn them
from being destructive forces to constructive ones.
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3. Modern Day Causes of Stress
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