Jane was able to use the objective feedback from her Stress Audit to identify the sources of her stress and to make some changes in her life. The report that you are about to read, JANE, is about stress. But it is quite different from anything else you have ever read or heard about stress. Based on the information you have provided by taking the Stress Audit, this report is aimed at helping you understand something about how stress affects you. It will give you some helpful hints on how to better manage stress and how to make yourself less vulnerable to the symptoms of too much tress.
Stress is epidemic in the western world.
Over two-thirds of office visits to physicians are for stress related illness. It is a major contributing factor, either directly or indirectly, to coronary artery disease, cancer, respiratory disorders, accidental injuries, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide - the six leading causes of death in the United States. It aggravates other conditions such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, genital herpes, and mental illnesses of all types. The stress epidemic is an extremely costly one. The medical costs alone have been estimated at well over one billion dollars per year in the United States alone.