I have also been having the cascading stress issue. Character is reasonably vanilla exhibitionist, but I've narrowed the issue down to dancing in the brothel being the trigger. Something is doubling stress every turn regardless of choices made, and even if I'm able to finish dancing and/or serve a customer after that, the number keeps multiplying forever. Even if I edit down .stress, .stressgain, .stresssaved, .trauma, .traumagain, and .traumasaved and remove all traits, it still multiplies and I immediately end up in a stress loop I can never escape from, as the character gets more than 10000 stress per turn within about 6 turns.