Did you know that April is National Stress Awareness Month? Did you know that today, April 16th is Stress Awareness Day? Does it stress you out that you didn't know that? Now that we have reached the point in this country where we are stressing about stress, I thought I'd share some interesting numbers from Fast Company magazine with you:
1/3 of American children ages 8 to 17 say they worry about their family's finances.
2 other major sources of childhood stress are homework and teasing.
To cope, 44% of kids listen to music, 26% eat, and 22% actually talk to their parents.
Americans spend $14 billion on stress-relieving products each year.
There are actually 2 kinds of stress. Distress, which we all know, and eustress, a positive form that improves productivity and performance.
The word we know as "stress" has had its meaning since the 20th century, but can trace its roots back the Old French/Middle English word "destresse" or "distress".
3/5 of doctor visits around the world are as a result of stress.
Americans spend $22.8 billion on anxiety-related healthcare each year.
275 million work days are lost in the U.S. each year because of people taking "stress" days.
These "stress" days cost employers $602 per worker per year.
62% of Americans claim to be stressed about work.
Eating 1.4 ounces of dark chocolate every day for two weeks has shown to reduce stress, of course, according to a 30-person study done by a team of researchers from Nestle.
A study completed in 1938 and re-given in 2007 showed that high school and college students were 5-times more stressed out going into the Great Recession than they were during the end of the Great Depression.
2/3 of spoken curse words are a result of stress (the other 1/3 must be just for fun!).
80 of the 15,000 words typically spoken per person per day are swear words.
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