Note that most ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection, not stress (read up on the 2005 Nobel prize for medicine: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/n

Note that most ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection, not stress (read up on the 2005 Nobel prize for medicine: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/nobe-m06.shtml http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/nobe-m06.shtml) Edit: the point I was going for was not to blame stress on everything, which itself can be stressful. Sometimes, finding a simple cause to an otherwise stressful problem can lead to big reductions in stress levels (and thus, the other symptoms others have pointed out). The most likely cause of an ulcer is a bacterial infection, not the only cause.