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| Common causes of stress
Environmental
- Unemployment
- Work, including job uncertainty, unclear role definition,
dangerous occupations, shift work, pressure regarding performance
- School or academic pressures
- Financial hardship
- Concerns about health care, access and affordability, and the
reliability of medical science, especially given the media
prominence to litigation
- Weight of current affairs, such as major disasters, reported crime,
war, environmental degradation, corruption
Personal
- Relationship difficulties including marital breakdown,
resolution of custody issues
- Childrearing, especially in the absence of extended support
- Coping with work, needs of partner and family
- Loss and grief associated with events such as the death or serious
illness of a loved one
Health
- Changes in lifestyle and relationships consequent upon illness or
disability
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