Were you aware that it was Stress Awareness Day at the beginning of this month? Did you remember Stress Awareness Month in April? Perhaps you marked World Mental Health Day in October or Stress Down Day in February? With the myriad of days relating directly to stress and its associated disorders, just how much impact have they had on the general public? Are people less stressed?
New figures, released to coincide with the 15th annual National Stress Awareness Day (November 6), seem to suggest little has changed. Five million people took a day off work in the last year because of stress, the study by Friends-Life revealed. They calculated that £460 million was spent every day covering what some call “wasted wages”.
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