S. and, especially Japan, this has led to an increase in stress, psychological problems, substance abuse and even suicides when students fail to pass their entrance exam for a respected school.
The Chinese are quickly learning that everything is a tradeoff. They may be getting better jobs, bigger houses and their first cars. However, such "gifts" normally come hand-in-hand with such downsides as depression, stress and anxiety, physical illness and overall discontent. Last year a study in the U.S. found that Americans are making a lot more money than in the 1950s, but they are not any happier. In addition, the amount of medication keeps on soaring higher. For the first time, more than half of all insured Americans are taking pharmaceuticals for chronic health problems. In fact, younger adults showed the steepest increase in chronic medication use and nearly a third of the nation's children, under the age of 19 are on long-term prescription drugs (Jackson, 2008).
The situation is not any better across the world. A recent Telegraph article explains that in Britain, 5.4 million adults, about 10% of the population, suffer from phobias, panic attacks, generalized anxiety, somatic hysteria, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Their income may be going up, but so are...
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