Funny and helpfulJuly 24, 2005 Francine(Wyoming) 10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am a mental health therapist and I used this video with my counseling groups. They gave the video rave reviews.
extremely irritating and annoyingDecember 12, 2004 Haseeb(Tempe, AZ United States) 2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Many people find Loretta Laroche (the presentor in this video) very funny, but personally I found her extremely irritating and annoying. Her loud whiny nasal tone really got under my skin. I did not laugh once throughout the entire video.
None of what she said is original. There is nothing surprising about the fact 75% of peoples conversations tend to be negative and what you say and act like affects how effectively you can deal with stress. If you walk around the place complaining and sighing, chances are stress will get the best of you. The way you see yourself is often the same way others will see you. We also already know that laughter and finding humor in things helps us cope with stress better. What Loretta Laroche said in this video could have been summarized and presented in a ten minute talk.
Everything in my day was going just fine until I watched this awful video.
Not recommendedJanuary 27, 2004 3 out of 12 found this review helpful
Bought this video partly because so many other reviewers said how funny they found it, and because we thought it might have been useful for people under stress in our organisation. Three of us watched it together and were very disappointed. We didn't find it funny at all - in fact, we didn't even find it amusing. Maybe it appeals more to a US/Canadian sense of humor? (I don't mean to imply anything about the US/Canadian senses of humor other than it might be different from ours).
It didn't offer any useful strategies for dealing with stress - it was just Loretta making weak jokes about things that stress people. Some of the info was ok if you had never read anything on stress at all before, but it was pretty basic and not useful to us at all.
In addition, we found Loretta's voice to be akin to fingernails scraping down a blackboard. One of us could only sit through about 10 minutes of it - the voice was just too stressful for him!
Would not recommend it as a stress resource. Might be ok as comedy if it appeals to your sense of humor - but it didn't appeal to ours.
Funniest VideoMay 9, 2003 Lorna Goodman(Utah United States) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I watched this video while walking on the treadmill, and I had to keep stopping to go to the bathroom because I was laughing so hard. I suffer from most (okay, all) of what she makes fun of. I have been struggling with depression, and have decided to watch this video every day for a month while working out and see what happens. I'm also giving it as a birthday present for everyone I know who is too serious about life. I really didn't expect much from this video except that I thought it might be helpful, but Loretta is as funny as Bill Cosby. She has really changed my mindset on life.
FantasticSeptember 25, 2002 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I watched this video at a class and had to have it. I am a HR Manager and thought this video would do a world of good at work. It puts a lighter side on the day to day stress of the common person.
