Stress Level

So people around me have been getting sick like crazy and just weird things have been happening lately. Yesterday in a meeting someone gave us all this stress test to take. It's basically a questionaire that lists certain life events and then assigns each event an amount of points. The questions are like 'have you moved to a foreign country? Been divorced? Left every family or friend that you've ever had? Changed social activities? Changed workout activities? Had a baby? Changed income level? Changed jobs? etc'. You get the picture. Pretty much you just mark the things that have happened to you in the past year and in the end your score is supposed to tell you, not officially or anything but approximately, if you are stressed. For the average American a score of 200 or higher means that you would be more prone to stress-related medical problems like hypertension, blood pressure issues, etc.

I would say guess what my score was but I don't even think anyone would be close. I got an 812 and that wasn't even the highest score in the room. No one got below a 200, not even close. No wonder everyone is so sick all the time. I've spent weeks trying to figure out why I am exhausted all the time, no matter if I sleep 6 hours or 12 hours a night, everyday I am tired. I've eaten more protein and then no protein, more vegetables and then less. I've changed my sleeping schedule around thinking that maybe if I went to bed earlier or later it might make a difference. I've done everything I could think of to try and figure out what the heck was causing the problems. I thought about the idea of stress but I don't feel stressed at all so I crossed that one off the list of options. Turns out, it is just stress...and it's not even the kind of stress that I can do anything about. Plus I probably made it worse by changing around all those things trying to figure out what was wrong! At least I don't have to keep doing all this crazy stuff trying to figure out the exhaustion thing!