Arthur Ciaramicoli

You know, Americans right now, half of Americans say they are awake at night due to stress disorder.

anticipating stress for the next day.

75% of Americans say they experience stress on a daily basis, and it is based on worry about what's going to happen.

When you are an anxious person and you have negative self-talk, the likelihood that you're anticipating negativity in the future is very, very high.

And this whole approach, this empathic cognitive behavioral therapy approach, I developed over many years to help people slow down

and recognize that old negative bias thinking and get help in correcting it through positive interactions with other people.

It is amazing because the stress rates in our country have really increased dramatically.

I mean, and it goes along with several other things that have happened in our country.

I mean,

the empathy rates have diminished.

The amount of Americans trusting each other has diminished.

20 years ago, Americans said they had five to seven close friends.

Today, it's two to three close friends.

So our empathy for each other has been reduced.

Prejudice has been increased.

I mean, prejudice, if you have many prejudices, you're experiencing stress all the time because you're kind of walking through a minefield in life.

If you feel uncomfortable with

African Americans or Italian Americans or Irish Americans or Muslims, you have multiple ways of experiencing stress on an ongoing basis.

So the stress hormone cortisol is living within you on a regular basis, which causes negative thinking, weight gain, inflammation, hair loss, breaks down muscle tissue, causes flabbiness, depression, anxiety, and memory loss.

Well, I think it's part of our fast-paced society, Mike.