Stress Is Your Friend

Kaltern – For a long time, stress was viewed with the same contemptuous scepticism as depression; it was a “made-up” illness that, according to my father, who firmly believed in the school of hard knocks, could be cured with a trip to the “porcelain throne” and a shift in perspective. His guiding principle was straightforward: get rid of emotions that don’t pay rent. But we have since come to know...