While I've had my share of moments of being over-stressed and freaking out, I've known too many people who suffer from full-blown anxiety attacks and who's stressors leave them barely able to function when they hit. Randomly I stumbled across the article linked below and felt like sharing. It's by someone who wrote a book about 'Peak Performance' who (much to their surprise) afterwords developed stress/anxiety mental illness. It's a good reminder that such issues can afflict anyone, and for those of us who don't suffer such I hope it'll remind us to be more understanding of those who do. As the article writer noted, we don't blame folks for getting the flu - we shouldn't blame them for suffering mental diseases either. And at times external help is absolutely needed and should be sought out; no one should have to go through this sort of thing alone.

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