The disconnect between your conscious feelings and how your body is reacting must be, as you say, bewildering As others have said - it's easy to look at others and say "well, they are coping" - but there is no telling what's going on there But nor can you ignore what's happening - if you can't identify any set of factors which are contibuting then teasing them out through talking seems like the best way. But again, I would suggest not being so quick to gloss over your circumstances as normal, and no worse than others. We aren't all made of the same stuff - we all have different plusses and minuses. Just because things seem to work for others, don't assume you should be doing the same You have been through a number of big life-events in recent years and even though you seem to be through them, your desire to return to what was normal might be the cause of your body resisting?