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“	Stress hinders the emotions and physical abilities as swiftly as a bullet.	”
Chris, equating stress with being shot

“	I Really feel like I should be reeled into my Poke Ball and stored in the PC a while.	”
Chris after finding out that Rosechu had a pickle all along

Chris in stressed mode.

Stress is the bane of Chris's existence.

After high school, Chris had to face the fact that he couldn't blame his shortcomings on his autism. Thus, he began to use "stress" as an excuse. However, it's assumed that Chris is probably confusing "stress" with depression or anxiety, refusing to admit that he is in fact, unhappy with his current situation. Given the intensely sheltered lifestyle his parents provided for him well into his twenties, it is highly unlikely Chris ever experienced any form of intense anxiety or pressure that would give him severe psychological and physical effects, apart from his consistent paranoia over getting trolled and, in recent years, the Financhu Crisis. He is, however, prescribed medicine for this "stress". Since Chris tends to exaggerate everything, anything that makes him feel remotely uncomfortable is classified to him as a stressor.

In his prime, under the effects of "stress" Chris typically posted videos without his glasses and talked in a more meek voice. It is during these periods that Chris would opt to remove himself from the Internet for brief period, and then come back feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and given a new resolve to finish the Love Quest. This is most likely due to his autistic regenerative abilities that make sure that his heart never goes below 0% and into the negatives. Chris often cites stress as the reason why he isn't inspired to work on the comics; precisely why inspiration is needed to make Sonic recolors have sex with each other and kill Chris' enemies is not apparent.

In August 2013, Chris indicated through Facebook that his stress is beginning to take a toll on his health. Given his rather unhealthy lifestyle, it's not unlikely.

Causes of stress

Chris's message in the comics whenever his laziness stress gets the better of him.

Seeing that much of Chris's adult life has been defined by his dealings with trolls, it's no surprise that trolls are the primary source of his stress. As early as 31 December 2008, Chris has admitted that he received stress from his internet fame.

Chris also has heavy financial problems, which became such a focus for Chris in 2016 that he barely did anything else that year except for begging on the internet for money.

A fair amount of Chris's stress comes from things he held irrational hatred for at any point in his life, specifically his former hatred of homosexuals. This was used to the trolls's advantage several times.

However, Chris seems to use stress as an excuse for his general laziness and poor decisions, much like he does with his autism. For example, in the same IRC Chat where Chris discussed his internet fame, he also stated that he received stress when his father didn't wash his hands, even through Chris himself isn't a hygienic person. Thus, any mention by Chris about his stress should be taken with a grain of salt.

Effects of stress

“	Stress from losing friends... Stress at home... Today... My blood pressure is up; feeling real dizzy and faint.	”
Chris, 27 August 2013

One does not need to be a expert physician to know that this much stress has had negative effects on Chris's health, especially since he doesn't have a proper way to deal with it (as discussed below.)

For one thing, stress has caused even more damage to Chris's wellbeing than his lifestyle already has. Stress is also one of the primary causes of Chris's incontinence.

However, certain actions that Chris blamed on stress are not, in fact, a result of stress, and are further justifications of Chris using stress as an excuse.. For example, Chris has claimed that stress from dealing with trolls drawing Rosechu with a penis and calling him gay caused him to draw the hardcore erotica from Sonichu #8, when in reality anyone can tell you that it was because of Chris's overenthusiastic desire to assert his straightness.

Coping mechanisms

Over the years, Chris has developed a wide variety of ways to deal with stress.

Major coping mechanisms

The Sonichu comic

“	I'm still the mayor of Cwcville. There is no elections.	”
Chris in an interview, salvaging his world under the threat of an infomercial spokesman.

From the beginning of the Sonichu comic, Chris has dealt with stress by rewriting stressful events in his life to glorify him. The Sub-Episodes of the first four issues were based on real experiences that Chris had with security and law enforcement. The initial primary villain of the comic, Mary Lee Walsh, was Chris way of getting revenge on the former dean of student affairs at PVCC for preventing him from soliciting sex. Almost everyone of his trolls that wasn't a gal-pal was rewritten into a cartoonish villain. For years, CWCville served as a place where Chris word was absolute.

Because of Sonichu's status as Chris's go-to coping mechanism for dealing with stress in the past, he has gone to great lengths to prevent outside interference. Because of this, the dystopian state of the government of CWCville is largely formed by Chris's attempts to maintain control over his life. When BILLY MAYS was proclaimed mayor of CWCville, Chris was quick to rebut this, declaring himself as mayor-for-life.

Extended hiatuses

Main articles: Chris and the Internet#Attempts to leave the Internet and Saga#Dark Ages (20 March 2010 to 3 September 2014)

“	Fuck you most, and fuck you, social sites like MySpace and Facebook! I'm out.	”
Chris bids farewell to the internet... for the sixth time.

Years ago, it wasn't uncommon for Chris to temporarily leave the internet in reaction to stress. When he did so, he would stop uploading videos and working on the comics for a brief period of time, usually a week.

Chris first major hiatus brought about by stress was after Blanca Weiss dumped him. During the video in which he commented on the breakup, he was visibly depressed, lying on his side for the entire video. He stated that the trolls had made him "crash into slumber" and sighed frequently. After uploading the video, Chris went silent for a week, and it took a Q&A video to get Chris uploading again. Throughout March 2009, Chris had expressed increasing amounts of stress towards Clyde Cash. This culminated in the video "YouTube Finale," in which Chris announced that he was leaving the internet. Although this only lasted a week, it would set a precedent for Chris's activities throughout 2010. During this time, Chris, who by then was seeking the advice of Rocky Shoemaker, would announce his exile from the internet four times in the span of two months, with causes ranging from another failed attempt at getting a girlfriend, to the loss of the CWCipedia, to his troubles with Michael Snyder. After the 6 June 2010 video, Chris would not make any more finale videos for a few months. However, on 22 November 2010 Jackie called Chris out on his numerous flaws, causing Chris to leave the internet a sixth time. This would be the longest Chris went without uploading videos at the time, lasting about eight months until the Calling Out videos.

On 7 September 2011, Bob Chandler passed away, and a month later, Chris was arrested on charges of attempted vehicular manslaughter. This caused Chris so much stress that he wouldn't upload any videos for two years, and even then he wouldn't resume regular uploads until October 2015.

Delusions of godhood

Main article: Messiah complex

“	Chris Chan Sonichu is watching over you.	”
Chris to a divorced woman, 11 June 2020

Thanks to interactions with the Idea Guys and a plethora of enablers, Chris believes that he is a deity known as the CPU Blue Heart, and that he is the key to an event known as the Dimensional Merge, where our dimension and the dimension of the Sonichu comic will combine. He believes that once the Dimensional Merge happens, he will have access to his money in CWCville and will thus be able to end the Financhu Crisis.

Minor coping mechanisms

These coping mechanisms, while noteworthy, are used less frequently than the above.

Hedgehog-defensive state

Chris performing the hedgehog-defensive state.

“

I went full Hedgehog Defensive and let my quills keep others back. It Hurts

”

While being kicked out of the 2018 TooManyGames convention for making unwanted physical contact with other event attendees, stress forced Chris to create the hedgehog-defensive state. Instead of leaving the con, he curled up into a ball on the floor and imagined he had hedgehog quills to keep the "meanies" away, eventually being escorted off of the premises by security. He also blamed the trolls and an event coordinator for causing the stressful situation. It's implied that this is a replacement for the pepper spray he used on 26 December 2014.

Body swapping

Main article: Spirit possession

“	Firstly and Mainly: Mama (your Chris Chan Sonichu of this Dimension 1218) and I had swapped bodies in the morning hours of March 31, 2020.	”
Sonichu's declaration to the world, 15 April 2020

One effect of Chris's belief that he is a deity is the belief that he can swap his soul with someone else's. When BABScon was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris resorted to LARPing as Sonichu in order to deal with this.

Chris also used Mewtwo to manhandle a troll that questioned Chris's supposed control over the Dimensional Merge..