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21st Jul 2016

These are the 15 most stressful things that can happen in your life

Carl Kinsella

A survey conducted by Statista and the Free University of Berlin has revealed the 15 most stressful things that can happen to you over the course of your life.

Stress is a part of life, but there are certain elements of our time on earth that we’d certainly rather avoid.

Some of the things on this list – like a jail term and marital separation – are things that we hope never affect us.

Other things, such as the death of a loved one or a spouse are simply inevitable.

The study was based around individuals clicking a ‘stress score’ between 1-100 on various events that they had experienced. These were the results:

1) Death of a spouse – 100

2) Divorce – 73

3) Marital separation – 65

4) Jail term – 63

5) Death of close family member – 63

6) Personal injury or illness – 53

7) Marriage – 50

8) Fired at work – 47

9) Marital reconciliation – 45

10) Retirement – 45

11) Change in health of family member – 44

12) Pregnancy – 40

13) Sex difficulties – 39

14) Gain of a new family member – 39

15) Business readjustment – 39

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Stress