[Elyane El Helou]

Stress is a killer it starts in the mind and becomes a physical ailment manifesting in Tachycardia, lack of sleep and sometimes eating disorders, you try to calm yourself down but those thoughts comeback and the bodily aches and pains comeback too...

How many times you went to the doctor in a horrible pain asking for a diagnosis and he sends you back saying you are fine there is nothing wrong with you?
Stress can make you wish you got a disease that you can treat or else you are in the unknown.
For example a tragic event happens in your life, but things start working out after a while and you think you will be safe and everything went to normal but then stress doesn't go away and you fall in a catalystic self-destructing mood.
My way sometimes to ease things up is to convince myself that things will get better so everytime I imagine a stressful situation I trick my brain to stop it right away and explain that it is not what I think, especially if it is not imagination only and that I know what I am thinking about is for a fact happenning or going to happen.
That is the tough part when you trick your mind into processing a reality as if it is 100% a lie, because usually we don't stress about inexistant situations we actually stress over very real things and we try to process them as if they are not there to avoid being stressed and depressed.