Dr. Divi told her audience that one out of three of them would develop some kind of chronic disease problem, like depression, etc. Are people doomed to suffer from these problems? Dr. Divi said no. She suffered from chronic pain herself, with her immune system crashing. The problem was something that teachers have spoken about for decades: stress. But it’s not just the normal stress that can happen when people are dealing with their kids or work-related stressors. Stress is anything that puts bodies into the fight-or-flight response, or anything outside of the normal feelings. With people raised to ignore emotions, most folks put the focus on doing things and achieving accomplishments to try and make feelings of inadequacies go away.