{"id":27353,"date":"2015-11-06T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=27353"},"modified":"2015-11-11T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:38:13","slug":"voxpop-stress-and-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/voxpop-stress-and-the-city","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: Stress and the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in its fifteenth year, the National Stress Awareness Day (NSAD) is held on the first Wednesday in November of each year.<\/p>\n<p>It has been organised on 4 November by globally acclaimed and UK-based International Stress Management Association (ISMA<sup>UK<\/sup>) in a bid to spread the word about this issue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Stress-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-27435 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Stress-1.jpg\" alt=\"Modern life causes stress\" width=\"480\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from jean pierre gallot on Flickr. Modern life causes stress<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stress is a large part of daily modern life.\u00a0The symptoms don\u2019t show themselves clearly, with complaints ranging from stomach-aches and headaches, to insomnia and frequent illness.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is a significant one with four out of ten Britons saying that they suffer from it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27629\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/stress-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-27629 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/stress-3.jpg\" alt=\"stress ball\" width=\"480\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Flickr. A common way to deal with stress, a stress ball<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sarah Williams, an employee at mental health organisation Cardiff Mind, commented that they don\u2019t have anything specific planned for the day but said, \u201cWe have tons of support activities (see sidebar) run daily to help people cope better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With NSAD near, how do Cardiffians deal with stress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[10273,148,10271,10272,10268,496,10269,10267,10270,1596],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voxpop: Stress and the city - Alt.Cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With National Stress Awareness day round the corner, how do Cardiffians deal with stress?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/voxpop-stress-and-the-city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voxpop: Stress and the city - 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