Well, yes, I suppose I was…
Three in four Britons have been so stressed at least once over the last year that they have felt overwhelmed or unable to cope, according to the biggest survey into the impact of stress.
A year ago tomorrow, my bike was stolen, causing me to cancel work and source another to replace it in the short-term. A week later, Mrs L was diagnosed with terminal cancer and we lived with that decline for nine months, her demise coming in February of this year. Today, on what would have been our thirtieth wedding anniversary, we are interring her ashes. In the meantime, following her death, I promised myself I would take it easy. Ha! I am more busy than ever, trying to juggle an already fairly busy diary with buying out a business. I don’t know whether I am coming or going
So, yes, stressed.
“Work makes a callus against grief”, said Cicero.
Indeed.
Gotta love the numbers when ‘our survey says whatever our agenda requires’, usually an increase in funding.
Not very many given the population of the UK.
@Bill
+1 Yep, give us more money
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@LR
Comment if you want to.
http://www.timworstall.com/2018/05/11/stock-markets-are-how-you-get-out-of-an-investment/#comment-784377
@All
Sometimes “stress” is real, brain overloaded with too many problems and defence mechanism is shut-down and reboot in protected/restricted/ignore mode. This does not solve problems, but does allow life to continue which is the innate “survival” mechanism.
Homeless rough sleepers exemplify this.
I tend to keep out of those discussions. NiV posts reasoned arguments and the window lickers wade in with their usual crap. Can’t be bothered, frankly.
Amazes me how “window lickers” proclaim they are, like Tim W, Libertarians; yet when TV/TS comes up they revert to ad-hom & prohibition.
I’m a hetero biker, rock&metal Goth and wear what I want when doing so is OK. Friends don’t care.
NiV displays admirable tenacity, shame the TS was bullied away.
They aren’t libertarians, they are social conservatives. As such, they are as much an enemy of liberty as the socialists.
Nolan chart – me:
https://c2n.me/3U9FpU6.jpg
btw have you ever been to Torture Garden? 1st time for MrsPcar & me was a revalation – way more than expected from TV/Movies depiction.
I did that quiz years ago. I’m on the extreme libertarian part of the scale.
Yes, but I suspect for most of the respondees, the stressors were a bit more mundane…
Oh, highly likely. The headline just struck a bell, is all 😉
Won’t someone PLEASE create a safe place with colouring books, crayons, and cuddly unicorns for these poor people. I don’t know how they manage to get through the day …