Purplebricks’ big new idea - meditation for movers

Your comment does bring to life the true issue with agents needing information. IF they are not provided with an answer within the timeframe that they believe is reasonable, they email again and then again. IF you can imagine what that volume looks like when you times your emails by the amount of transactions they are handling surely you can see that you are exacerbating an already problematic situation, which is going to get worse by your actions.
This is how Conveyancers are invariably treated and then everyone screams at them asking why they take so long.....is because they are dealing with high volumes of transactions and even higher volumes of people hounding them for information to see if they are doing their job.....which of course they are.
Just imagine how stressful the situation would be on the receiving end of those emails when all you want to do it your job. It must be like being micromanaged by everyone, every minute of the day and it must be hell. If anyone needs meditation it is a conveyancer, but they are not afforded the time to do it as they are too busy doing their job, explaining to people that they are doing their job and still getting beaten up for it.
Everyone needs to get involved with getting buyers and sellers better prepared for a move so that all parties are better informed and more aware of what is happening. There is much of a conveyance that can be self help.
Change needs to happen and, in time, will happen, and the stress levels will be reduced significantly.
I am in favour of looking after mental health, but would rather see more action in alleviating the causes of stress for anyone involved in the house moving process, rather than working out how to fix it once it manifests itself.

But that's not comparing like for like. You're taking a very extreme situation to minimise the stress involved with a house sale or purchase, which can be very high thanks to the sums of money involved, the delays, the amount of paperwork that is still required.

No-one's saying it's as stressful as being in a war, or suffering through the Blitz, or even dealing with a deadly pandemic which is affecting both health and wealth, but that doesn't mean it's not still stressful. Just like losing a job, a divorce or some other traumatic life event.

I'm sorry, but moving house is a big deal - and should be treated as such. If it's not taken seriously, that causes all sorts of problems for all parties. We shouldn't minimise the stress involved just because it's not as stressful as being on the frontline of a war or global health pandemic. It's like saying none of us can be worried about Covid if we don't have it or aren't facing it head-on as a frontline worker. It doesn't add up.

I'm far from PB's biggest fan, but I think this is actually a good initiative.

Bully for you, but for others that might not be the case. Also strikes me that the biggest snowflakes are often the ones who are calling other people snowflakes. The sort of people who actively refuse to wear a mask to help prevent the spread of a deadly virus because it's a bit uncomfortable, or those who rail against millennials for daring to want the same quality of life as their parents.

Let's look at an example quickly. A seller pulls out at the last minute before exchange, leaving the buyer without a home to purchase and a load of already paid costs that they can't recover - are you telling me they don't deserve to be a tiny bit stressed?

It's nothing to do with life being easy - people know it isn't - but equally anything that can be done to improve the mental health of people, particularly at a time of a pandemic, should be fully welcomed in my view.

Mindfulness might have been viewed as hippy dippy nonsense a few years ago, but its benefits are now widely known. People who suffered shellshock (or what we now know as PTSD) in the war you talk about could have done with a bit of mindfulness and far better awareness of mental issues in the aftermath. It might have helped to prevent a host of social issues in the decades after as people clammed up or turned to drink to cope with the horrors they'd seen.

I feel it is fair to interject to stop this crazy war on words between Jan and Algarve Investor. It is turning in to a measuring competition.
People handle situations in their own way. For one person, the transaction falling through 'could' be a catastrophe and something that does seriously rock their world in a negative way.
Thankfully we are not all the same and manage situations differently.
How anyone can bring the stress of war and compare that to a house move is ridiculous, BUT, no one can deny that people in either situation will react in their own ways and, just maybe, need support.
One persons mental health is not the same as the next persons, no matter how much you wish to argue about it.
Surely the point has been missed.....some people do get stressed, and those people might need some support and advice. If that is not you, fantastic. But don't belittle those that are affected otherwise it becomes too difficult for them to speak up and get help for fear of being ridiculed or being accused of being weak....which is far from fair and tantamount to bullying.
So please, reel it in.