Why Are We So Stressed Out?

We are living in very challenging and stressful times and it doesn’t seem like things are getting any easier. COVID-19 hasn’t made things any easier. Life can sometimes seem incredibly frustrating and unjust, but somehow we continue to soldier on, day after day, hoping and praying that things will get better soon.

Yet the world is becoming a crazier and more unpredictable place to live in every day, let alone stressful. Millions of people are in record levels of debt. Many are losing their jobs, their homes, their health, and sometimes even their sanity. Worry, depression, and anxiety seem to possess become how of life for way too many of us. We seem to have entered the Age of hysteria. The constant stress and uncertainties of living within the 21st century have certainly taken their toll, and as a result, many folks seem to measure a lifetime of constant fear and worry. Turn on the news or open up a newspaper and that we are bombarded with disturbing images and stories. We begin to wonder if we are safe anywhere. In this, the knowledge age, never before have we had such a lot of access to such a lot of data.

The economy is another stressor. Our country is in debt and so are many Americans. Soaring gas prices, outrageous housing costs, even the value of food has sent many Americans to figure in jobs that are unsatisfying and tedious. They work these jobs because they…