emotional stress
Lack of sleep, especially REM sleep, can make you think you're hearing things. "A brain lacking sleep or under emotional stress is like a brain on drugs,"
"And emotional stress is like the leak in the roof that might cost hundreds of pounds and puts you into debt. Actually, I am nearly always in debt."
"It's a cancer because certain unhealthy and stress filled thoughts may be eating away at your mental healthiness. Being in a constant inner state of emotional stress is like having a mental cancer. The mind and body are not separate."
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