I have always felt like stressful situations come in groups. It’s not just that you’re having a flare-up, it’s that it’s happening just when your work project is due. As things pile on, it is easy to get caught in a cycle of chronic stress. Especially with illness, which is…
Stress is annoying. It’s this crazy automatic human ancestral thing that messes with our minds and bodies. Something happens and suddenly your body reacts as if it is under attack, fight or flight. We don’t have the same dangers as when we were hunting or gathering, but our physiology assumes…