Japan 3% Highly Sensitive and Impatient

[Mulboyne]

Japan Times: General anxiety disorder may be affecting 3% of population
About 3 percent of Japanese are probably suffering from generalized anxiety disorder, which leads to depression and seriously affects not only those who have it, but also those around them. Osamu Tajima, a Kyorin University professor, said GAD patients sleep poorly, suffer headaches and become highly sensitive and impatient. "Naturally, they become irritable, tormenting themselves and troubling those around them," Tajima said. GAD used to be called anxiety neurosis and was thought to be a condition that mainly affected highly sensitive and nervous people...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Japan Times: General anxiety disorder may be affecting 3% of population

I think this is a typo and they left off a zero.
It should be 30%.
At my (former?) company, most every floor of the building has one third of the people twitching and arguing to themeselves at any moment. But hey, maybe things have got better without the performance stress I added.

[Mulboyne]

I think this is a typo and they left off a zero.
It should be 30%.
At my (former?) company, most every floor of the building has one third of the people twitching and arguing to themeselves at any moment. But hey, maybe things have got better without the performance stress I added.

Here's your missing zero

Asahi: Up to 30% of office workers suffer "workplace hypertension"
Up to 30 percent of office employees have "workplace hypertension," a condition in which blood-pressure levels are normal during checkups but rise considerably at work, a recent survey showed. In Japan, an estimated 35 million people have hypertension, which could lead to heart attacks and stroke if left untreated. But health experts say the actual figure could be larger. An unknown number of people have "masked hypertension," in which blood-pressure levels appear normal during health checkups but rise at home...more...

[Andocrates]

I have that GAD shit and it isn't fun. It's really bad when I'm in Japan so I think it's linked (for me) to the Japanese diet. I don't eat enough of something or other, probably choline-from dark green vegetables.

[Mulboyne]

PakTribune.com: Hour of Exercise a Week Eases Hypertension
It only takes 60 to 90 minutes of exercise a week to significantly lower blood pressure, Japanese researchers reported. That amount of aerobic exercise spread out over a week reduced systolic blood pressure -- the top number on a blood pressure reading -- an average of 12 points and the lower or diastolic reading by 8 points, the researchers found...more...