One of the invisible costs of an economic reccession is the impact financial worries place upon one's mental health. As worry increases, it can manifest itself with symptoms of anxiety, panic attacks and even depression.
The article of interest takes the view of this through the perspective of an emergency room physician.
- How widespread is the incidence of stress due to the economy?
- What symptoms of stress can mirror that of a medical condition?
- What two types of unusual advice does the physician give his stressed patients?
- How is the economy impacting you or those close to you?
- How do men and women experience economic stress differently, according to the APA survey?
ER doc sees economy sickness
http://healthyliving.freedomblogging.com/2008/10/23/er-doc-sees-economy-sickness/300/
And a link to the APA survey referenced in the OC Register article:
APA POLL FINDS WOMEN BEAR BRUNT OF NATION'S STRESS, FINANCIAL DOWNTURN
http://www.apa.org/releases/women-stress1008.html
It appears that this will be a time when we will all benefit from our skills of resilience.
-Jeff
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Happiness is contagious in social networks.
If happiness is contagious in social networks, does that mean it is supposed to be a natural state at work, at church, in politics? If happiness exceeds 9 percent and unhappiness decreases 7 percent then why are we faced with so much sadness today -- other than happiness? Maybe it is just my network of people that are always unhappy and not the greater number of people. In my personal experience, it seams the happier I am the more “downers” come to rain on my parade to tell me why they are so unhappy and that I don’t have a right to be happy.
I hope that is not a signal to my level of self-esteem, my goal is to raise my self-esteem to allow others to know I have the right to be happy and they could benefit from being supportive of that view so they can get that 9 percent boost. Maybe we all need to state “we are happy” -- the case of pretend until it is real.
It is far too easy to be anything but happy in today’s constant state of crisis. Just turn on the tube – the business of reporting crisis after crisis and attempts to make every crisis part of us. I propose that every air channel will be required to report nothing but good things for a minimum of 30 minutes every day during prime time to create the networks of happiness that will support and build hope.
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