Stuart Solomons, founder of communications platform Ernie Connects, marks Stress Awareness Month by highlighting how technology can help combat the ‘three plagues’ of care.
With April being Stress Awareness Month, we find ourselves once again exploring the causes and cures of stress – a feeling that has ballooned over the past year among the UK population due to Covid.
Indeed, the Mental Health Foundation estimates 74 per cent of UK adults felt so stressed at some point over the past year they became overwhelmed or unable to cope. Furthermore, recent research by the Stress Management Society found 65 per cent of people in the UK have felt more stressed since the Covid restrictions began in March 2020.
Put simply, stress is one of the great public health challenges of our time, yet it still is not being taken as seriously as physical health concerns, despite being a key driver in exacerbating mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
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