Enemies and various effects can inflict Stress on you. 

For each point of Stress you suffer you must discard 1 card from your hand. You can choose which cards to discard. 

Whenever you have no cards in your hand, you must automatically Focus, which will reduce your Endurance. If one character reaches 0 Endurance, the episode ends (with a less desirable outcome).

If you discarded your last card due to Stress and there is still excess Stress, you must spend Hope to ignore that Stress. If you have no Hope left and there is still excess Stress, you must trigger 1 Surveillance, regardless of how much excess Stress remains. After that, the excess Stress is ignored. 

Clarifications:

• You may spend any number of your Hope to ignore 1 point of Stress for each Hope spent.
• Suffering Stress is not equivalent to discarding cards. (Discarding cards is the result of Stress.)
• If you suffer more Stress than the number of cards in your hand, only 1 Surveillance is triggered at most.
• See Focus for details on exactly when Focus will happen.