stress-2
Explanation
This comic satirizes the way stress has become so normalized in modern life that it has essentially become the baseline expectation. A patient tells the doctor she has been feeling stressed lately, and the doctor replies that stress is the normal state and asks if she has had any "unstressed" periods. He explains that if she ever stops being stressed, he will need to schedule a follow-up because something would clearly be wrong.
The joke is an inversion of the standard medical interaction: normally a doctor would be concerned about a patient reporting stress, but here the doctor treats stress as the healthy default and the absence of stress as the alarming symptom worth investigating. This resonates with the common modern experience of feeling perpetually stressed and the semi-serious belief that if everything seems fine, you must be forgetting something. It is a commentary on how contemporary life -- work, finances, news cycles -- has made chronic stress feel inevitable.