... : Don't let worry kill you off ‑ let the church help. The American Psychological Association says that 48% of Americans say they are more stressed now than five years ago. The #1 reason for worker sick days in 2007? Depression and mental illness . . . Brian Cox wrote this poem “Emeritus” when he retired from academe in 1993: And so I retired, apprenticed to silence, only one deadline to meet, no worries at 6 a.m., ambition obsolete; cv permanently filed, sleep easy as a child. Perhaps the most famous ...