{"id":24426,"date":"2018-11-03T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=24426"},"modified":"2018-11-03T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T17:00:34","slug":"stress-and-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/stress-and-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress and the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big city, large crowds of people, soaring rents, not enough free time \u2013 are those the reasons why people in Central London are so often under stress?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recent social media study revealed that Westminster is the \u2018most stressed\u2019 borough in London. According to the Evening Standard<\/a>\u00a0a research by the site Spa Seekers<\/a> tracked around 24,000 mentions of the words \u201cstress<\/em>\u201d and \u201canxiety<\/em>\u201d on status updates on the social media.<\/p>\n

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Map created by Tsvetelina Petrova (Click for full-screen access)<\/p><\/div>\n

Westminster is the winner, as more than a half of the posts were posted in the area. Hackney and Camden get the silver and bronze prizes but still, the anxiety and stress mentions were much lower in these boroughs. Unsurprisingly, the suburbs\u2019 residents are less stressed and anxious. Barking and Dagenham turned out to be the \u2018least stressed\u2019 boroughs in the capital.<\/p>\n

There are millions of definitions, ideas and researches about stress. Everyone experiences their own kind of stress. This is why I went to Westminster and Barking \u2013 two completely different boroughs of London with absolutely opposite stress levels. Listen to the Londoner\u2019s points of view about stress in the following audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n