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While the grim economic news has focused attention on people’s financial worries, non-economic irritants exert their own stress. A newly released Harris Poll, fielded in late October and early November, gives a sense of how large some of these loom in American life.

Respondents were given a list of stressful experiences and asked to say whether they’ve endured each of them in the past month. Fifty-eight percent of women and 53 percent of men said they’ve had “too many things to do”; 53 percent of women and 41 percent of men have had “trouble sleeping”; 49 percent of women and 40 percent of men have had “concerns about health in general”; 30 percent of women and 25 percent of men have experienced “being lonely”; 19 percent of women and 18 percent of men have suffered “frequent or excessive noise.”

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