In some societies, stress is now regarded as a major problem, and it is thought that people suffer from more stress than they did in the past. However, others feel that the amount of stress people have today is exaggerated. they say that previous generations were under more pressure, but the idea of suffering from stress did not exist. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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„We live in
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stressful
time
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“ you can hear often on
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, in schools,
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sitting on
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in
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or on television.
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, older generations think and say that they lived in more stressful times but that they coped better with everyday situations. The question is
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people suffer from stress more
today
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than they did in the past?
Informations
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today
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through media fast run and get to everyone every second
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the day. Every person is notified within a second if something
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is happening in their country or on the other end of the world. Through mobile
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you can read all kind of
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of
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all around the globe and that
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availability
cause
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from
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stressful
and devastating news.
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,
pressure
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today
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is coming from social media
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as
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and
facebook
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where everyone
are
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portraited
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as succesfull
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succesfull
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successful
and
good looking
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. On
one
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side youngsters are forced by
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their parents
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to have good grades to
enroll
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incollege
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in college
and on the
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they „have to“ follow trends and look good to fit in friend groups.
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, people before didn't
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cellphones and they weren't worried
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about what
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friends from school
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thinking about their „popularity“. They were under
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from
parents
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their parents
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to finish school as soon as they
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so they
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find a
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job rather than
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they would love to do.
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, youngsters had to gain
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even before
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start giving birth to children as soon as they
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.
In
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that time it was
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embarrassing
having
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child after
21
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being 21
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year
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old. With everything that has been said, I think that people
today
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are too
sensibile
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sensible
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and that generations before felt more
pressure
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and stress but they coped better. I think they weren't
so
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fragile
like
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today
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's generations.
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