The thought of adding up the cost of presents, decorations and food for Christmas could be genuinely painful for more than half the population, researchers concluded.
Millions of people suffer from high levels of “maths anxiety”. Brain scans of people waiting to carry out a maths test showed a higher than normal activity in the posterior insula, a region linked to physical and emotional discomfort.
There was no elevated level of activity when people actually carried out the numerical problems, suggesting that the pain was linked to nervous tension.
http://www.telegraph...-real-pain.html
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Thinking about Xmas costs could cause pain
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Still Waters
, Nov 01 2012 03:56 PM
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 03:56 PM
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 04:03 PM
Still Waters, on 01 November 2012 - 03:56 PM, said:
Brain scans of people waiting to carry out a maths test showed a higher than normal activity in the posterior insula,
Certainly hurts my posterior, right about where my wallet sits near my right ass cheek!
Edited by WGH, 01 November 2012 - 04:04 PM.
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 05:00 PM
They needed brain scans to arrive to this conclusion?
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 05:07 PM
Bloody hell, no wonder I'm so freaking stressed all the time. Stupid accounting...
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Posted 02 November 2012 - 08:38 PM
Well, Christmas is stressful enough.
The IRS in a few months makes me want to have another beer.
The IRS in a few months makes me want to have another beer.
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Posted 02 November 2012 - 09:12 PM
pallidin, on 02 November 2012 - 08:38 PM, said:
Well, Christmas is stressful enough.
The IRS in a few months makes me want to have another beer.
The IRS in a few months makes me want to have another beer.
There are two tax seasons here, one is in June (cadastral tax), at the time when people are planning for summer holidays; the other (income tax) is in December, around Christmas and New Year
Cheers!
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Posted 03 November 2012 - 12:57 AM
That makes sense. I am surprised they bothered to do a brain scan, but at least now there is evidence that it is true.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 02:47 AM
I don't buy christmas presants. Problem solved. lol 
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 12:26 AM
The holidays can be stressful especially when one feels the need to compete and overspend.
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Posted 12 December 2012 - 03:39 AM
Spending without thinking first usually does cause pain if one doesn't have the extra padding. Anytime you think last and act first there is a risk of personal injury.
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