Quotes About Stress

Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.

The sensation of being alive in the early twenty-first century consisted of the sense that our ability to pay attention—to focus—was cracking and breaking.

Depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences!

Becoming acutely lonely, the experiment found, was as stressful as experiencing a physical attack.

The science is so clear on this that a recent summary explained: "It is now obvious that stress can cause structural changes in the brain with long-term effects.

It said that we are, collectively, experiencing "a more rapid exhaustion of attention resources.

What does it mean to be a society and culture so frantic that we don't have time to dream?

He explained that when you're very young, if you get upset or angry, you need an adult to soothe you and calm you down. Over time, as you grow up, if you're soothed enough, you learn to soothe yourself. You internalise the reassurance and relaxation your family gave to you. But stressed out parents, through no fault of their own, find it harder to soothe their children because they are so amped up themselves.

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

But I was going to learn that neither of these stories is true. The primary cause of all this rising depression and anxiety is not in our heads. It is, I discovered, largely in the world, and the way we are living in it. I learned there are at least nine proven causes of depression and anxiety (although nobody had brought them together like this before), and many of them are rising all around us—causing us to feel radically worse.

when they had the financial security that came at the end of the harvest, they were on average thirteen IQ points smarter - an extraordinary gap. Why would that be? Anyone reading this who's ever been financial stressed knows part of the answer instinctively. When you are worried about how to survive financially, everything - from a broken washing machine to a child's lost shoe - becomes a threat to your ability to get through the week. You become more vigilant

Our Western society is a bit ADHD-ish because we're all sleep-deprived…. It's huge.

The concept of "work hours" is vanishing for most people—so this thing that 87 percent of us don't enjoy is spreading over more and more of our lives.

different study of office workers in the U.S. found most of them never get an hour of uninterrupted work in a typical day. If this goes on for months and years, it scrambles your ability to figure out who you are and what you want. You become lost in your own

It's worth repeating. Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.

Stress isn't something imposed on us. It's something we impose on ourselves." Stress is a feeling. Stress is a series of thoughts. If you just learn how to think differently—to quiet down your rattling thoughts—your stress will melt away. So you just need to learn to meditate. Your stress comes from a failure to be mindful.

It's easier to find serenity through meditation when you haven't just lost your job and you aren't wondering how you're going to avoid being evicted next Tuesday.

If you worked in the civil service and you had a higher degree of control10 over your work, you were a lot less likely to become depressed or develop severe emotional distress than people working at the same pay level, with the same status, in the same office, as people with a lower degree of control over their work.

The worst stress for people isn't having to bear a lot of responsibility. It is, he told me, having to endure "work [that] is monotonous, boring, soul-destroying; [where] they die a little when they come to work each day, because their work touches no part of them that is them.

Cuanta más desigualdad hay en una sociedad, más extendida está toda suerte de enfermedades mentales.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.