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Quiz: How Stressed Are You?

Life can be pretty stressful at times. Money, work, relationships, it can all take its toll on you.

So how do you know whether your life is ticking along just fine, or whether you are feeling a little more stress than you should? Take our quiz to find out if you maybe need a little more rest and relaxation…


1: Your computer freezes before you have a chance to save what you were working on, you…
a) Switch it off and go get yourself something to eat to give it 5 minutes.
b) Swear and then try to write down everything you remember from the document/email.
c) Feel your chest tighten and palms become sweaty as you go through all the possible worst case scenarios ‘get fired from my job’ etc.
d) Start to hyperventilate, feel tears well up and then cry out for help from someone! Anyone!


2: The café where you get your first morning drink from is super busy. Do you?
a) Use it as an opportunity to catch up on some news by finding a seat and reading the newspaper while you wait.
b) Think about the day/week ahead and do a little planning/brainstorming.
c) Stand right near the counter and make sure you are well seen by the people making the coffee. Loud sighing and glancing at your watch helps speed up the process too.
d) After waiting for two minutes, storm up to the counter, yell about how slow they are and demand a refund because ‘Some people have a job to go to.’


3: You have some friends over for dinner and a few drinks. You are...
a) So happy! You have a blast and laugh the night away.
b) Enjoy yourself. Offer some advice to a few of them that are having issues and put on some fun music as you tidy up.
c) Try to have a good time but get annoyed when one of them makes a ‘supposedly’ jokey comment about the food and occupy your thoughts with how tired you are and how long it will take to clean up the kitchen when they are gone.
d) Worry before they even get there about how you actually have time to have people over because there are so many other things you could be doing on a Saturday night, like finishing that report for next Tuesday’s board meeting.


4: You are on your way to an appointment and get stuck in unexpected traffic. Do you…
a) Crank up your favourite song on the radio and enjoy that you get an extra 10 minutes to sing!
b) Call straight away to apologise that you will be late then come up with some ideas for your friends surprise birthday party.
c) Call to say sorry 10 times that you will be late and grip the wheel a bit tighter as you panic about how you should have left a little earlier because you never know what could happen!
d) Start beeping your horn and yelling out the window before you rip the car into a U turn and try to find an alternative route.


5: Your boyfriend/partner/hubby buys you some flowers. Do you…
a) Pull them close for a big old snog and float on air for the rest of the day.
b) Give them a hug and say thank you so much! So sweet and unexpected.
c) Wonder why they are giving you flowers, perhaps they have cheated on you or something?
d) Say that they shouldn’t be wasting their money on silly things like flowers, we are in the middle of a recession!


6: You come out of work to find your car has been towed. Do you…
a) Laugh at yourself, you should have been more careful where you parked.
b) Curse and then call the council to see where it could possibly have been towed too.
c) Burst into tears, you don’t have enough money to get it out of the tow yard so now you won’t be able to get home or go to work tomorrow. You have the worst luck.
d) Feel yourself immediately start to boil. You throw your bags down on the pavement and call the council to scream at the first person to answer the phone. You demand to have your car released for free and that they come and pick you up otherwise you will sue.


7: Your typical night sleeping is…
a) Straight through, like a log from 10:30pm until 7am.
b) Pretty much 8 hours, but you keep a pen and paper beside your bed just in case you think of something you need to remember for work.
c) It takes you a long time to get to sleep (sometimes several hours). The rest of the night is pretty disturbed with bad dreams and noises waking you up.
d) Sleep. You don’t really truly remember the last time you had a full eight hours without waking up in cold sweats. You can’t afford to sleep too much because of all the work you have to do, so you get a few hours here and there.

Last updated: 26/12/2008

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