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Originally Posted by BCIpam
Bottom line stress is something we all manufacture. It is totally controllable and we either deal with it, eliminate it or relish in it. I like to eliminate it. My sister obviously likes to roll around in it! To each their own!
I have to totally disagree.

I work daily with folks who are parents of profoundly, severely disabled children. The stress of the situation, with a 20 year wait for services and providing 24/7 care to an individual who needs total support, and is 40 years old (and the parent is in their 60's), is NOT manufactured. And, for some it is two or more children with profound disabilities. I could go on and on - how about a person raised in a home with an alcoholic father who beat the mother, and who had, as a young child to defend the mother and hit the father? That leaves marks that last forever and are NOT controllable.

From your view of life perhaps your stress is manufactured. From mine it is not.

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