To stress or not to stress...that is the question

"Stress is nothing more than just a socially accepted form of mental illness." So my question is why do we stress so much? Is it worth it in the long run and what do we gain from it? Yes, a certain amount of stress is necessary and keeps things interesting, but when it's causing you to lose sleep at night, stifling your creativity, sucking the life out of you and causing mini panic attacks all of the time, it's obviously too much. My husband, Matty Watty, is going through a tough time at work. As a project manager, the poor guy has a really full plate and is totally stressed to the max. He has to deal with people with extremely thick accents, who are rude, unappreciative, and extremely demanding. His is constantly overloaded and can never seem to catch up from the work that keeps getting piled on him. I, the fixer that I am, try to be as encouraging and supportive as I can, but I know it doesn't do much. He makes good money doing what he does, but is it worth his sanity? I recently went back to work and accepted a position that was about 15K less than what I was making at my previous job. But you know what? I don't stress at work. I'm able to do my job and leave it at the door when I go home. It's so laid back and to me, that's worth the pay cut. It's like I bought piece of mind. My previous job sucked balls so bad, I'd come home in tears. I'd dream about work and it was always a burning thought in the back of my mind. I could never get away from it enough to relax. So I'm trying to encourage him to find something else. I know it's hard for some people to go backwards in their profession, but honestly, I don't think he's going to do this type of work much longer anyway. I told my future sister in law one day, "you are at work 85%-90% of your time. If you are miserable at work, you are miserable 85%-90% of your life." That really puts things into perspective. So I say, go...take the cut....find something you can at least be satisfied with, so you can at least somewhat enjoy life. After all, you only get one shot at this life, so you better make it a good one, right? To wrap this up, I'd like to use this quote: "Brain cells create ideas....stress kills brain cells." It's just not worth it!