<story><title>Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxxxxx</author><text>From casual observation (living here since 2000) I believe that being stressed and &amp;quot;busy&amp;quot; is a badge of honor in the US. For example during Christmas time everybody complains about being stressed with it. I don&amp;#x27;t remember that from living in Germany. Christmas was downtime not a source of stress.&lt;p&gt;For a while it was also popular to be &amp;quot;outraged&amp;quot; about stuff but that seems to have calmed down quite a bit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>&amp;gt; The findings were not all bleak for the United States. Despite having widespread negative experiences, Americans also generally reported more positive experiences, on average, than the rest of the world did.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be interesting to know how they came to the decision to focus on the negative emotions in the article.</text></comment>