What stresses Americans out the worst?

[LiberalElite]

http://www.livescience.com/49706-what-stresses-americans-survey.html?google_editors_picks=true

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If you tend to worry about making ends meet, you're not alone. Money is the No. 1 stress factor for adults in the United States, topping work, family obligations and health concerns, a new survey found.
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[NYC_SKP]

1. Time, expectations, the number of items sold to us that represent "happiness".

Were we to sit down and think, and read a little, and nurture meaningful relationships and study nature, we could cut our expenses literally in half, and then in half again.

We've jumped the shark, bought into the lie, and are at each others' throats kvetching about our failure to meet unmeetable goals.

Color me unsurprised and trying to make it despite they hype.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Absolutely! Not only am I scraping by to pay my obligations today,

but there is the ever-present threat that my job may go away at any time due to "downsizing", which is something that my company seems to do every single year at this time (I have been there for 10 years, and believe me, this is getting more than stressful).

It's the constant fear of financial insecurity that haunts so many of us. We never know when disaster might befall us whether it be job loss, huge medical bills or some other unforeseeable disaster.