We similarly, hold on to our stresses because they give us this false sense of security. We have learned to function with these stresses. Much like the drunk, we have become functional stressors. We become so numb to the stress, so used to dealing with the stress that we take this as being the natural way to be. Again, this is only limited compared to the maximum capacity that we could be functioning.
Stress actually serves to eat away at our capacity to perform at our maximum, peak levels.
It distorts and destroys us at the core of our being. It prevents us from healing, not only on the psychic but also on the emotional plane. Thus such maladies ranging from mental to physical illnesses take root and we are unable to effectively heal because of the draining resulting from the various stresses. Now while I say that these results from various stresses, what I actually mean is that stress serves as a catalysts, which enhances the severity of such psychic or physical traumas. All too often this struggle, taking place at the subconscious level, rarely causes more than a dull response from us.