This happened to a friend of mine. He was just sitting on his recliner watching sports and poof. Boy did he get angry while experiencing the TGA symptoms. All o

This happened to a friend of mine. He was just sitting on his recliner watching sports and poof. Boy did he get angry while experiencing the TGA symptoms. All of us were really concerned for his wife, who suddenly had this person without a "normal" working memory to care for. Fortunately the episode was really short, even if it did involve a long ambulance ride and a stay at the hospital. Given the circumstances, mostly the timing of the events and the external pressures on him to address some big stressors on a given schedule, I guessed that stress was a key contributor in his case. Doctors seemed to want my friend to focus on that aspect. This particular friend tends to keep things bottled up, and then grows more emotional as events arrive and progress. It's hard to watch, and I've tried to approach the _topic_ of approaching it with him, with little luck. But it has been a good lesson to me: Even if you think you are OK and life is great, continue venting information about stressors regularly. Personally I regularly word-dump into a journal or into my phone for health purposes. My journaling template[0] has evolved a lot over the years and it's still one of my top tools for moderating stress. The stress will always be there, but it seems that, perhaps depending on circumstances and individual psychology, one can do _enough_ of this kind of work to avoid some major stress-related health issues. [0]: https://pastebin.com/YmjnhaXp https://pastebin.com/YmjnhaXp