Reply To: Dealing with Work-Related Stress

Thanks yytz. You would make a very good therapist! I know I have to always keep working on myself, but it is frustrating that if other people worked on their middot more, I wouldn’t need to work on getting thicker skin so much. I feel like I am being punished for crying, which is the way my body relieves stress. I guess I have some genetics that make me get stressed out easier than others, but I don’t really want to medicate myself for crying. I want to be stronger, but I also wish I could be rewarded for all my hard work to become a dr so I can help people and for being so nice and caring, but instead I am being told I need to change b/c I don’t respond well to criticism (usually when it is given in a cold way). Why did G-d give me such sensitivity? It feels like a curse.