The Listenary

Stress can kill you—and worry about stress will kill you faster!

To attend a stress management seminar, lawyer-homemaker Suzanne must work late the night before, harass her teenage daughter to be sure to be home for the evening, and deal with her six-year-old son’s cell phone calls during the seminar to complain about his sister’s babysitting.

To schedule a stress management seminar, training manager Brian must gather more data and make the proposal more perfect than the one for Internet skills; he must market it more persuasively, and guard the time slot more carefully to keep this topic from getting bumped for something more obviously tied to the bottom line.

Yes, the ways you deal with stress can increase your stress.