Stress has become ‘the next big thing.’ If we type the word ‘stress’ into the Google search engine there are 18,000,000 pages, each with 178,000,000 articles and websites offering advice, stress tests, statistics and potentially ‘the answer.’ There are stress counsellors, self-help books, DVDs, etc - it is almost as though ‘stress’ has become an industry in itself.
Stress is now a self-diagnosing condition
Stress has also become a self-diagnosing condition where we find individuals visiting their GPs and saying ‘I have stress,’ (rather than ‘these are my symptoms, what do you think it might be doctor?’) We have created a stress culture and so most of us can recite the usual symptoms and suddenly everyone is a stress expert.
