Feeling stressed? Congratulations. You are a typical American.
Over the last several decades, the United States has become the world champion in the stress category. According to the American Institute of Stress, stress-related illnesses cost the American economy $300 billion in medical bills and lost productivity every year. Forty-four percent of Americans feel more stress than they did five years ago, and one in five people experience "extreme stress," which includes symptoms like heart palpitations, shaking and depression. Three out of every four visits to the doctor are for stress-related ailments.
A lot of that stress is hitting us earlier in life as well. As psychologist Robert Leahy points out, "The average high school kid today has the same level of stress and anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s."
The numbers are shocking, especially given the fact that we live in a country that should have the least to be stressed about. We're relatively secure. We...
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