Hi everyone,

I have a quick question on coping with stress and I'm hoping some people here could possibly help me out.

Fwiw, I've always been afraid of developing a gut disorder because my brother had one and I feel like his having one has effected my way of perceiving gut disorders.

I also have a lot of stress in my life and have noticed that I tend to store stress in one specific spot in my body during any one specific period of time.

Like, I used to store most of my stress in my shoulders, than it moved to my neck, than my knuckles, and now, because I'm afraid of developing a gut disorder, I can feel it moving to my gut, because I'm always thinking of it.

This may or may not be the case, but regardless, my stomach pains as of the past couple days have been getting progressively more significant and I feel like I'm storing all my stress in my gut now.

Storing stress in my gut means developing a gut disorder, and that'd be pretty difficult, so I'd like to avoid that... Is there any way I could possibly avoid this gut stuff by making a habit out of storing my stress elsewhere? How would I go about doing that? Is this approach effective, or should I approach it by doing something else, like "not thinking about it"?

(Btw, I've actually wondered if this would be classified under more of a somatic problem, but I figured exploring it through the lenses of stress at the root of the problem would be more helpful, haha.)

Thanks!
-Eliapple