Stress

I read somewhere about some of the most stressful events that people go through. It was recommended by psychologists that the events be spaced by a year or more to maintain physical and mental health. This is off memory but they were as follows:

• Start a new job
• Get a new boss
• birth of a child
• lose a job
• marriage
• divorce
• death of a parent (or child)
• Buy a house
• sell a house

I find the last two a little funny because once you own one, you usually have to do both in order to move.

Last year 6 of these events have occurred to me. All in succession. Get this:

1. lost job
2. new job
3. new boss (yes a boss change occurred at the new job)
4. New baby
5. Told what happened
6. lost job (because the divorce would be a "distraction")
7. New job
8. Selling house
9. Divorce
10. New boss

Not to mention totaling the car I had JUST PAID OFF and had to buy a new one. And the paternity test wasn't much fun either. three weeks of waiting for that.

My father died the year before unexpectedly.

I have endured some things that would kill most men. I survived. I keep surviving and I don't know why. Because this was just in the last year. The Marine Corps was another animal entirely