Part 3 - Stress

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C.S. Lewis
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”

Stress Facts and Statistics – therecoveryvillage.org
Stress affects the entire body and is linked to many co-occurring mental and physical health problems, like: heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, and anxiety.

Stress Facts and Statistics – therecoveryvillage.org
Long-term stress is often a contributing factor in many of the leading causes of death in the United States, including heart disease, cancer, lung disease, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.

Psychosomatics – Merriam-Webster.com
A branch of medical science dealing with interrelationships between the mind or emotions and the body and especially with the relation of psychic conflict to somatic symptomatology.

Jer 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1Sa 16:7b
For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

Ps 44:21b
For [God] knows the secrets of the heart.

Don’t Forget to Be Human – blog, 11/4/22
I’m human. I’m flawed. I’m weak. I’m normal, it turns out. Imagine that?

Stress kills.

Stress Implies Cause and Effect
There are two fundamental ways of dealing with stress:
Even Jesus Removed Himself from Stressful Situations
Don’t ever feel condemned just because you need a break from those things that cause you stress. The strongest man to ever walk this Earth isolated Himself at times.

Walking Away from Harmful Situations
In general, YOU, of all people in this world, have the ability to remove yourself from harmful situations. There aren’t any real excuses not to (though it may be understandable, given your sick heart).

Pr 24:1
for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.