Danes like to talk about ’stress’. They take it very seriously.
You will begin to meet A LOT of Danes who are not at work because of ’stress’. Their job was too hard, they were unhappy, they were putting on weight.
Stress is real. It is out there. And it is coming to get you if you are not careful.
And your employer will be very supportive. Your employer will not say:
“You are just being feckng lazy, get your arse off the floor and get on with it!”
Your boss will say:
“I understand. I have had stress too. Then I went on a healing course and I drew some mandalas and I spoke to a psychologist and found out that I am a type B person and now I am fine..but you have to watch that stress! It is so real.”
And your neighbours will say:
“Oh stress! We have that.”
And you won’t feel so special any more, because stress is real and that tiny little sneaking feeling you had that you are making it all up because you want to stay home farting and watching Oprah on tv will go away.
Danes like to talk about stress. Because it is part of their lives, and because it is another way to get a day off.
Foreigners and muslims aren’t really allowed to talk about stress though, because they should be grateful and if they find it so bleeding stressful here why don’t they leave? Or rather, shouldn’t they STAY now we have paid so much for them to be here through our taxes?? I mean, after all, it is perfectly alright to support stressed out Danshish to have a little holiday or to find themselves but to pay for muslims and foreigners to go on with their lives in a less stressful way after we have PAID for them? Oh my goodness, no, sorry, no, but that just takes the biscuit. And I am speaking as a high powered respectable person.
IF foreigners have stress it is because they actually have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They are then mental.
Danes with stress get stress ostensibly because they have been ‘overdoing’ it.
And it’s all out in the open, nothing to be ashamed of.
My advice?
Make lots of impressed ooohing and ahhing noises and cooing sympathetic noises when a Denish person begins to ‘open up’ about their stress experience. Encourage them to put themselves first and take time to get over their stress. Explain to them that they cannot do everything and that it is necessary to take stress seriously. It is very real and it means you can watch Oprah.
