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STRESS
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What Stresses
Americans? Not
Having Enough.
BY LISA BELKIN
MERICANS ARE
stressed.
Ninety-one percent of us felt stressed
by something in the month of
March, with 77 percent of us feeling stressed “regularly” — defined
as weekly or more. Men and women
reported being stressed equally as
often, though that stress can be triggered by somewhat different things.
Those are among the results
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of a national survey of more than
a thousand Americans 18 and
older, conducted online for The
Huffington Post by an internal research team.
When people were asked about
the biggest cause of their most
recent stress, the most common
answers tended to include all the
things you might expect: too much
work (or none at all), too little
time, financial concerns, illness
and rocky relationships. More
than half of those surveyed named
“Work” (or lack thereof) as their
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