Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.
I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.
There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.
Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.
I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
It's a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which is responsible for bringing lifestyle diseases to the fore - and these are exquisitely sensitive to stress.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
