We're too stressed about stress

摘要

Happy new year. Have you settled back into work, full of enthusiasm for the challenges of 2007? Or are you, like so many people, already stressed out? I don't expect the Christmas holidays helped. In the build-up to the festive season, endless miserablist articles told us 'anxious emotions become ever-more intense over the Christmas holidays'. Headlines in December proclaimed that we are 'Wound-up Britain - the stress capital of the world'. We rank highest in 10 countries in the stress league.