I did a post back when it was the old forum. Yep I had major stress, we were going through marital problems, my wife was on numerous depression meds-could hardly get out of bed, not that she wanted to. We ended up losing our house to foreclosure. I started showing symptoms in June of that year and when we lost the house in November I was diagnosed. There is the Scale of Life Events you have probably heard of it. It gives various events of stressors a point value. The more points you have the more likely you are to have a significant health concern/death in the near future. It tops out at 300and at the time I was over 400. HMMM there may be something to this.