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Environmental Demands and Pressures

Our environment is both a concern and a potent source of stress for many of us. Destruction of animal habitats, vanishing wildlife, shrinking rain forests, pollution, acid rain, oil spills, and their implications for future life on this planet, distress us all. But less obvious environmental destruction includes violent crime in your neighborhood or any environmental circumstance that threatens you or your loved ones.

American society underwent sweeping changes over the 20th century and stress is an unavoidable byproduct. Geographic, social, and financial mobility have disrupted the semi-settled society of 1950, leaving us with the challenging and highly stressful task of forging a new society for the 21st century. Conflicting political agendas, competitions among societal factions, breakdown in the social order, constant flux in our cities and neighborhoods, discordant community values, and shifting social mores all contribute to social discord.

You experience the stress generated by societal discord in everyday neighborhood hassles. As population densities increase, our neighborhoods become increasingly crowded and stressful. Construction work disrupts our daily routines and brings the stress of noise, dust, and dirt to our doorsteps. Declining quality in local schools, inadequate public services, and dilapidated recreational facilities further disrupt the ordered routines of daily life.

Neighbors who fail to maintain their property, or are noisy or unfriendly, make a neighborhood unpleasant. Add violent crime, vandalism and other minor crimes, and neighborhood stress becomes intolerable. When this happens, good people move, bringing even greater disruption and stress for those left behind.

But even those who move do not escape. Moving takes time, energy, and money. New neighborhoods can be more stressful than old ones. You have to adjust to your new neighbors, new traffic patterns, new stores and new schools. No neighborhood is hassle-free. You have to deal with unfamiliar problems with depleted resources. You may look back wistfully to the old neighborhood you couldn't wait to escape.

Think globally, act locally. Controlling environmental stress begins at home. For most of us home is a haven, a safe harbor, where we can lick our wounds, rest and restore our energies before returning to the fray. Hassles in the house rob us of this haven. When the kitchen is piled with dishes, the table is covered with magazines and mail, the floor is strewn with toys, and the cat box hasn't been emptied all week, home is no haven. When you don't bother to clear the bed off, but just slip in between the sheets, you know you're in trouble.

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