Stress and UC

Hello Everyone,
I am not new to this forum but I had to make a new account to be able to post this message because I have forgotten my old password. I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I only read the posts here when I am in a flare.
And this time again, I'm having minor flare. I was diagnosed with UC 12 years ago and since then I've had major flares, where I had to skip one whole semester in school , two in university. It took me a long time to get over the
"WHY ME" phase and learn not only to accept this condition but also to appreciate it. I started to see flares as little alarms that I am not treating myself well, that I am over stressing, that my body is asking me to pay attention. Since I started to look at things this way, and responding with a "oh, ok, I get it" to the first trace of blood instead of stressing out and by that making sure that it evolves to a super flare, I have managed to stop many flares from getting worse. I wanted to share this video with you, because I think that many of us have are a little bit afraid of stress, and when we are in stressful times we accept that it will trigger our UC, and I think that this belief contributes to worsening our symptoms.I don't want to be afraid of stress.

http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend.html