If Chocolate Doesn't Work . . . One in eight of us have called in sick because we were too stressed out to work, and one in five have up and quit.
Half routinely skip lunch.
A third of us find ourselves too stressed to sleep. We already know that we are stressed. The experts talk a lot about taking deep breaths. I always thought it was the oxygenated equivalent of counting to 10, ensuring that I pause before I do something rash. The pace of your breathing, he says, is something you have control over, even when everything else is falling apart.