I can handle stress reletivly ok now, but not at all times. I'd say I have had an extremly stressful life, distressful. I use to handle stress pretty poorly, completely crumble. Then I began to get through the stressful event and keep it together untill it was over and then crumble. Like when I fled from my ex with our children. The police were involved, lawyers, courts, no home or belongings.. and extreme fear of my ex. That was monumental stress, I kept it together very well to do what I had to do. But after it was over I really fell apart.

Now I am really working on getting through it and not falling apart after. I am using a lot of meditation and mindfulness and philosophy to get there. But I still have to work on it. I think I am much much better and can catch myself and turn it around before I fall apart. My goal tho is to eventually not have to catch myself.

I have always been super sensitive to stress and external factors. I probably always will be, just learning how to work with it. I used to try to just toughen up, that never worked for me.