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What's your take on correlation between health and your employment situation?

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Depends on what job we're talking about. What are the stats on stress-related heart conditions?

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I wonder if perhaps stress could be called our modern-age plague?

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I know stress can cause alot of things and can easily over come us if we are not careful. It has happened to me before. Not having a breakdown, but I had to step back and tell myself to look at things in a different way.

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Those days things had to be done today, and what wasn't had to be done tomorrow or during the week, as time permits.

Nowadays everything has to be done YESTERDAY!!! Can't be good for a human... nor any living thing!

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Scolls wrote:

Those days things had to be done today, and what wasn't had to be done tomorrow or during the week, as time permits.

Nowadays everything has to be done YESTERDAY!!! Can't be good for a human... nor any living thing!

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I'm talking 21st century, pre-80's. And not work hours, but workload.
The days when people had the time to stop & assist you if you were broken down. The days when you could take your entire family to a hotel without needing to take out a bond to pay for it!
The days of the "baker's dozen", etc.
The days before greed took over!

Of course, back in the days of slavery, it was even worse than the industrial revolution from the slave's point of view.

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These conditions only exists in developed countries and parts of the world that are industrialized similarly. However, yes, I think that you're right. Kind of (mental) conditions exhibiting in many people in those places seem to be modern diseases.

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What about family vacations? Do people even still go camping anymore? Or is it now all just hotels & resorts?

Same with family time. Did television take over the family?

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the japanese have a developed good methods for dealing with stress at trhe workplace.--somecompanies provide sleeprooms and allow workers to stop for meditation exercises.

meditation works wonders

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I have suffered with bouts of depression my entire adult life - I get frustrated with people who have a bad day or a few bad days and start running round saying they are depressed.

Depression seems to have lost the stigma it used to have, thankfully for those of us who have had to endure it, but as a consequence there are millions of people claiming benefits for depression which in reality, if there was a real litmus test for depression, would prove negative.

OK so we are no longer told to 'pull ourselves together' which is a blessing

The knock on effect is the ease of which anti depressant medication is prescribed, we are all aware that anti depressants can ease some of the symptoms of depression but what about the cause? 'Here's a prescription come back and see us when they run out and we'll give you some more' is not the answer.

I apologise for my random ramblings hope some of it made some sense