ARE YOU A 'STRESS' FREAK? _____________________________ Freaks are people who thrive on things (positive or negative). Some people thrive on the notion of 'stress'. They assume that because there is word for their feelings of 'stress', it is real (and it is them them, because they believe it). Give something a name and it is so. Sorry, but not so. 'Stress' has become one of the best work-related diseases after the 'bad-back' problem, to exclude people from work. Most of this is total rubbish, or whatever term is used in your vicinity. Words aim to describe. They do not describe. Whatever you say something is, it is not. Example: What is a tree? It is a piece of wood (etc.)...end there. It is therefore not a tree but something else, a piece of wood and so on. Crude example, but effective. Calling something  as important as a feeling, by a word, does not reflect the difficulties that the definition is supposed to include. I may have certain 'symptoms' which I describe as a 'cold'.     I feel lousy.     I have a headache.     Some-one near me sneezed.     and so on... A cold is defined by these symptoms; therefore, I have a 'cold'. Manufacturers of drugs recognise these 'symptoms' and produce drugs to their profit to 'counteract' these said symptoms. Placebo. A placebo is a device which in itself is nothing. It is a psychological device to inveigle the taker/ingestor ti believe that the product will work. It will work if you believe it. Otherwise, it won't and is a sham, as much of medicine is.

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