Surely it's our unrelenting hunger for bad news that has encouraged these competing experts to start peppering January with their booby-trapped days of misery or stress.
And because the misery of stress is often experienced as much in the body as the mind – tiredness, headaches, tense muscles and the like – common sense tells us that psychological stress leaves us prone to physical illness.
Investigation can be natural there are naturally inquisitive people or prompted due to exposure to pain, loss, misery and stress so that a person is motivated or even driven to either overcome or understand it.
For pure gastronomic misery and family stress, nothing beats being on the road at dinnertime, searching in vain for a decent place to eat.
According to William Davies, the science of happiness "has now penetrated the citadel of global economic management … the future of successful capitalism depends on our ability to combat stress, misery and illness and put relaxation, happiness and wellness in their place".
Anita Bellows, of campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), said: "It comes as no surprise for DPAC and confirms anecdotal evidence that we have been receiving on a daily basis of people being placed under intolerable stress, misery and hardship by the work capability assessment.
Orthopedic injuries are common and a source of much misery and economic stress.
Yeah, because "macho" working hours, fear of taking rightful parental leave, general presenteeist misery, and workplace stress-induced ill health, have worked out so well for men.
