Americans Are Stressed About Politics
Stress and the Toll of Conflict Conflict is one of the main causes of stress that we encounter in our lives, whether it’s conflict from co-workers, from family, from significant others, from our friends, or even from people we encounter on the street and acquaintances we don’t know well. Conflict virtually always takes a heavier toll on us than most other forms of stress. It can not only make us instinctively feel less supported socially and bring to our awareness that there’s a problem that needs to be solved, but it can tweak our “need to belong” as well, making us feel less of that group-based safety that we’re wired to seek out....