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If you think it’s your job causing the stress remember that unemployment is generally considered to be far more stressful. So is spending all that horrible money if you win the lottery. In fact, our brains seem capable of producing adequate stress secretions in virtually any situation.

Holidays are great stress inducers – all that packing and planning combined with those delayed flights and hotels built around sewage farms. Alternatively, if you decide to stay at home and do nothing you can get hit by delayed stress. Haven’t you heard of people who only get ill at weekends or during the week’s holiday they took? Maybe they’d been managing their stress too well on a daily basis and it decided to go on a little holiday too.

Triggers

There is no one trigger for stress, just as there is no one cure.

For really ideal stress-inducing conditions, though, look no further than the average office. The office is the perfect place to succumb to stress – and to moan about it, too. There’s the ‘too-much-work’ stress, the ‘boss-or-colleague-from-hell’ stress, the ‘juggling-home-and-business-life’ stress, and of course the general stress malaise of being cooped up in an unhealthy atmosphere with little in the way of exercise for long periods of time.