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(108,903 posts) Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:21 AM Apr 2013

Millions Of Americans Can't Handle The Stress Of Work Anymore [View all]

http://www.businessinsider.com/stress-an-epidemic-afflicting-workers-2013-4

Longtime readers know that I see our system not just as financially sick but as spiritually and psychologically deranging.

The illnesses are related, of course—a distorted economic system (i.e. financialization) that rewards parasitic sociopathy and political predation cannot help but make its participants physically and psychologically ill.

Here is a selection of the many entries I've written on this largely ignored topic:

Serial Addictions, Serial Speculative Bubbles: a Sickness Unto Death (Feb. 2, 2010)
Welfare Nation: Addiction, Denial and Magical Thinking (February 1, 2010)
The Wider Context for Twenty-Somethings (Gen Y) in America (February 19, 2010)
Opting Out and the Culture of Entitlement (March 29, 2010)

Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-18/silent-epidemic-broken-deranged-system-stress#ixzz2R6FmTR9t

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Millions Of Americans Can't Handle The Stress Of Work Anymore [View all] xchrom Apr 2013 OP

I don't have any data of links, but I was thinking that so many companies that I have read about midnight Apr 2013 #1

I see it, esp. at the municipal government level here in New Haven. CTyankee Apr 2013 #2

O boy.... Govt. jobs should be put under a special protection program... This sounds so awful.... midnight Apr 2013 #13

Hubby got laid off in a job massacre back in Feb. 09. He now heads up as a volunteer the CTyankee Apr 2013 #14

Yes those damn government employees who are so overpaid. We need to get rid southernyankeebelle Apr 2013 #19

I see this happening at the supermarket. The chain advertises specials and then CTyankee Apr 2013 #21

Yes it's like that for sure. My husband is 58 yrs old and works very hard. There are southernyankeebelle Apr 2013 #23

Isn't that something.. Howard Dean is starting an organization that is trying to return our State midnight Apr 2013 #22

Feeling perennially behind in work is incredibly stressful suffragette Apr 2013 #25

Well, I think we all know that some things just don't get done... CTyankee Apr 2013 #26

Yes, many things can't get done suffragette Apr 2013 #27

At a certain point, you just give up, because nothing is going to get better. How sad! CTyankee Apr 2013 #29

Add in the fact that the 10% loss of productivity in the south and SW due to global warming byeya Apr 2013 #3

... Scuba Apr 2013 #4

This is what austerity looks like.... midnight Apr 2013 #15

Crazy talk, stupid talk. bemildred Apr 2013 #5

It truly "rewards parasitic sociopathy", the workplace is quickly becoming toxic, interpersonally mother earth Apr 2013 #6

"eliminate the real sources of stress and you bring down the entire economic, political ....... marmar Apr 2013 #7

... xchrom Apr 2013 #8

But we must all try to be useful engines. leeroysphitz Apr 2013 #9

Agree with this: PETRUS Apr 2013 #10

3+ jobless for each opening is the government statistic on the situation byeya Apr 2013 #11

Eliminating income by not working is an even greater stress BeyondGeography Apr 2013 #12

It's much, much worse, let me tell you. duffyduff Apr 2013 #28

This article and some of its Newest Reality Apr 2013 #16

Too many jobs feel like a hamster wheel. nt MOTRDemocrat Apr 2013 #17

The Japanese have a word for death from overwork: karoshi LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #18

I'm not handling it well. LWolf Apr 2013 #20

This is so easy for me to believe. My children and grandchildren are working longer hours than we jwirr Apr 2013 #24