This really sounds bad. 40,000 local kids suffer from anxiety disorder and in the city of Metro Vancouver alone.

More seriously, 80% of the children suffer in silence and may carry the anxiety disorder condition into adult where treatment may be more difficult.

The reason behind the silence? ” An anxiety disorder “used to be thought of as a sign of weakness,”Robichaud continued, “but it’s actually a sign of strength to go about your daily routine. It takes a lot of work to be anxious. It’s physically exhausting.”

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Here is a simple receipe to mitigate anxiety, via courtesy of Hilton Head Island.  It consists of hot oil and salt, your typical cooking items.

Maybe pouring a vat of warm oil onto your forehead or floating in 10 inches of water mixed with 1,000 pounds of salt don’t intuitively seem like ways to unwind. But on the island, shirodhara massage and floatation therapy are two offbeat treatments now being offered to those feeling frayed by the regular rhythm of life.

Via Islandpacket

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Cool. Now there is a value to stress and work anxiety. At a bill of … $300 billion a year!

Stress in the workplace is costing American business $300 billion a year.

That is the figure the American Psychological Association puts on the loss of productivity, absenteeism, turnover and increased medical costs caused by stress at work and one in four has called in sick as a result of stress. Talk about productivity.

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