in the past due to many of our traditional avenues of dealing with stress being no longer readily

available to us as well as the many new stresses caused by modern life. These include the

increasing crowding of today's cities, the fact that the stresses in today's life are largely implied

and that there is no physical way to take them out as well as anticipation often being more stressful

In today's increasingly urbanized world one can see that people are becoming more

crowded together, and so stimuli such as noise are amplified by the close proximity to one another.

People in the city tend to be overstimulated however, and this causes them to try to block out

whatever excess they can, such as ignoring people who they see walking down the street. The

overcrowding in today's gargantuan cities has amplified the problems of substance abuse,

alcoholism, crime and mental illness in comparison with areas that have the population density of

rural areas and villages. This was shown although to quite an extreme in a study performed by

John Calhoun at the United States National Institute Of Mental Hea

performed at London's Bedford College, on a group of 220 South London women. The area from

cannot go and take more money in an acceptable fashion. This creates stress because the

Road/Air/Work Rage. The lack of control one feels over their surroundings amplifies the tension in

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