… I have one of those wearable devices that monitors my heart rate, sleep quality, activity level, and calories burned. Mine is called an Oura ring, and at the end of the day, it told me what I already knew: I had been “unusually stressed.” When this happens, the device asks you to log the source of your stress. I scrolled through the wide array of options—diarrhea, difficulty concentrating, erectile dysfunction, emergency contraceptives. I could not find “financial issues,” or anything remotely related to money, listed.
According to a poll from the American Psychiatric Association, financial issues are the No. 1 cause of anxiety for Americans: 58 percent say they are very or somewhat anxious about money. How, I wondered, was it possible that this had not occurred to a single engineer at Oura?
For all of the racial, gender, and sexual reckonings that America has undergone over the past decade, we have yet to confront the persistent blindness and stigma around class. When people struggle to understand the backlash against elite universities, or the Democrats’ loss of working-class voters, or the fact that more and more Americans are turning away from mainstream media, this is why…
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I had my annual at the VA a while ago, they asked if I was stressed and I said yeah, but that was normal given the circumstances…
We’re nearing the point where this shit is the norm, and that’s incredibly dangerous for a society and the people living in it.
Crashing out is going to stop being the exception, hell, you could argue all the white 20 somethings that voted for trump are actively crashing out.
They don’t understand the problem, let alone capable of finding real solutions.
They just know shits fucked and that fucks with our risk assessment, that’s “crashing out”. Things no rational person would consider suddenly sounds like valid plans. Because prolonged stress shortens how far in the future we plan.