Well, my wife told me to go to counseling, lol.
Yeah, stress can do a lot of damage. Glad to hear you're better. Do you ever feel writing to be a theraputic way to releive some stress? I find writing journals sometimes can help, but writing for an audience, e.g., Medium not necessarily.
(In fact, right now the traffic is so slow, and some writers with big followers seem to stop too, I'm thinking about quitting too. Anyway.)