coming from a person with life-pain experience: get used to it. it can be hard to be at first but it might be worth it, maybe. opting into this strat will make most of your stats irrelevant so do be cautious, however even if you don't go into this strategy you can still get the Stress-Adrenaline Converter upgrade, which while fairly expensive can make life way easier since you can use the accumulated pain and stress to supercharge yourself