Many years ago I attended a lecture on how to manage stress. The speaker (I don't remember his name!) said we each have a finite supply of energy to deal with our stresses and can be compared with a bank account. When we respond to various stresses in life we make a withdrawal of this energy. When the bank account is empty we reach exhaustion and breakdown.

Most of us long for a stress free life! There is actually one place on this earth where the residents have no stress --the cemetery! Yet few people want to move there, or more correctly be moved there.