Overview
- Mexico’s ENSAFI survey reports 36.9% of adults with high financial stress and 34.6% with moderate levels, a burden that intensifies during December spending.
- Cardiologist Juan Pablo Costabel describes how sustained cortisol and adrenaline surges raise blood pressure, speed heart rate and trigger arrhythmias, with heightened danger for people with hypertension, diabetes or prior heart disease.
- Clinicians note more year-end consultations for insomnia, palpitations, tension headaches and pressure spikes, reflecting stress that has built over months rather than a single event.
- The World Health Organization recognizes burnout as an occupational risk, and new reporting highlights end-of-year exhaustion, with local data in Argentina indicating nine in ten workers feel burned out.
- Experts recommend practical steps such as prioritizing tasks, setting limits on time and spending, protecting sleep and diet, exercising and using brief therapies, with supports like SALME’s crisis line (075 or 33 2504 2020) and university workshops promoted as immediate resources.