Listener question: causes of stress

I wanted to reach out to you about some changes I have noticed for me lately.

 I am really feeling confused at the moment with feeling of stress.  

 1. That said I don't know if the course is a cause of stress to me or that the way my mind is flip-flopping around.  I just can't seem to focus I seem to have gone away with the fairies, The only think that is clear is that I don't feel I know who I am anymore, sometimes its like when I hear my own voice it doesn't sound like me. 

The one really interesting thing that came up this week was something my epilepsy nurse said at annual appointment.  "On reflection Karen, you were experiencing such stress 5 years ago when this started......"  I would have said to you at the time I was very busy or had a lot on, I never thought I was stressed, yet from my accounts to her it seems that's exactly what was happening. 

2. What can be done to help people who don't recognise that they are stressed - this has just made me think of my mum and how she always says we have to "just get things done" never did I find this harsh but it could really have fed in to that thinking. (sorry that just came to me).

Have you got anything you can put on a podcast that can help me understand points 1 and 2?