Does anyone else have a very poor stress response? And have you managed to make it better? 

I feel like I have a very poor stress response to any life events that manifests itself in nasty mental and physical symptoms. For example, my daughter had an unlucky fall and got a minor fracture. Instead of having a “kids being kids” no big deal type of reaction, my mind was instantly filled with this intense feeling of dread and impending doom as I started to over analyze our fragility and death. Took me about a week to snap out of that terrible mood.

Two weeks later I realized that I have a particularly busy week at work. Nothing too crazy, just some extra work that was due. However my mind and body went into some crazy panic mode as if something so colossal was happening. Ended up with a terrible chronic stress headache that won’t go away for days now.

In short, my mind and body reacts very poorly to out of the ordinary life events. The mental and physical reactions manifest themselves as if something very terrible or extremely stressful is happening. But in reality it’s just every day life.