Some feelings can be signs of stress too. Your body and emotions are attempting to give you a message and you need to listen to it and sort it out. Dr. T.H. Holmes, of the University of Washington in the U.S, created what he called his Social Readjustment Rating Scale in which he gave numerical values to many different types of stressful situations. He was able to correlate, with considerable accuracy, the number of stress points a person accumulated in any two year period, with the degree of seriousness of the disorder which that person was then likely to suffer. This does not mean that you should avoid stress.
Stress is a necessary incident to being alive.
Rather, you must learn to deal with stress in such a way that it does not trigger the silent response. We must have stress to survive. In these situations, we tend to internalize the overt, or visible, reaction to stress and add it to the invisible non-specific stress. Many illnesses have multiple causes. Migraine headaches are an example of illness where stress is a major causative factor.