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exactly!
Now, lets take subject A. He is mid 40s, white, has 3 kids and a wife, and is a investment banker. Works 60 hour weeks. Gives up every single free moment of his life to his job. Soon becomes stressed and suicidal.
Take subject A and place him on a very large dose of effective anti-depressant. Soon, all stressors in his life seem null and void. He still goes to work - quite effectively. Still goes home and has to deal with the wife and kids, but is no longer suicidal. No longer feels the pressures of life choking him.
The events of his life that were bombarding him are still there. However, his reaction to them is drastically different. Ergo (I love that word), the stress in his life was completely created by his psyche, and therefore not real.
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