Scary Stress Statistics
Three quarters of Americans experience symptoms related to stress in a given month:
- 77% experience physical symptoms
- 73% experience psychological symptoms
- One-third of Americans feel they are living with extreme stress.
- About half of Americans (48%) feel that their stress has increased over the past five years.
- Money and work are the leading causes of stress (mentioned by three quarters of Americans).
Physical symptoms of stress include:
- fatigue (51%);
- headache (44%);
- upset stomach (34%);
- muscle tension (30%);
- change in appetite (23%);
- teeth grinding (17%);
- change in sex drive (15%);
- feeling dizzy (13%)
Psychological effects of stress include:
- experiencing irritability or anger (50%);
- feeling nervous (45%);
- lack of energy (45%);
- feeling as though you could cry (35%).
About half of Americans (48%) report lying awake at night due to stress.
Stress impacts lives in a dramatic way:
- About one half of Americans say that stress has a negative impact on both their personal and professional lives.
- About one-third (31%) of employed adults have difficulty managing work and family responsibilities.
- Over one third (35%) cite jobs interfering with their family or personal time as a significant source of stress.
- Stress causes more than half of Americans (54 percent) to fight with people close to them.
– One in four people report that they have been alienated from a
friend or family member because of stress.
– 8% connect stress to divorce or separation.
Workplace stress costs more than $300 billion each year in health care, missed work and stress-reduction
Workers who report that they are stressed incur health care costs that are 46 percent higher, or an average of $600 more per person, than other employees
Workers in the United States already put in more than 1,800 hours on the job a year: 350 hours more than the Germans and slightly more than the Japanese
More than 30 percent of workers say they are “always” or “often” under stress at work. A quarter of those surveyed in 2002 said there often were not enough co-workers to get the job done
About half of Americans (48%) report lying awake at night due to stress. (Source: American Psychological Association study, 2007).
To combat wakefulness, Americans filled more than 50 million prescriptions in 2008 for sleeping pills like Ambien and spent more than $600 million on over-the-counter sleep-inducing supplements such as melatonin and valerian root… http://healthcareresorts.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/scary-stress-statistics/
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