How do you deal with Stress?

RodaRose

How to breathe -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd94Gh4lKOA

izu87

This is a very good video.

yoovie

smoke a sandwich and slip into a bubblebath in silence and stay there, without access to electronics, and keep adding hot water until Ive thought about everything Ive put off facing in my mind.

horton1170

I often do the same in stress related situations both personal and work. But I found pray to be a great outlet for me! I to evaluate the situation based on emotions and actual happenings. From that you will realized majority of what you are stressing over is not your fault and you should encourage yourself and know that the situation can be handled tomorrow and enjoy time at home with serenity and find somethings else to do maybe read a book or watch your favorite tv show as reward of your hard day at work!

izu87

Hot bubble bath is my dream. Unfortunately I do not have a bath tub And hot showers are not the same.

yoovie

oh god no thats just called hot waterboarding.

steponebyone

izu87 wrote: »

My guess is that most of you will reply 'By working out'. But is that all? Is working out the secret to dealing with stress?

The past few months I've had so much work related stress that I lost all of my desire to follow diets, workout plans or do anything really. Work has become from a place that I loved and looked forward to going to, to a place that causes me anxiety and simply crushes me. I guess I just never thought about how getting a promotion will change everything. From a free developer I became the manager of half of our company, responsible for our biggest products and our biggest clients. And this responsibility is making me feel like suffocating.

And I cannot stop thinking about it. I get home and my mind remains on work related issues until I run myself into a really dark place of fear, self-pity and weakness. And guess what I'd do - eat a few chocolates and go to bed at 9 o'clock.

But now I'm slowly getting back into it all. I'm trying to acquire the ability to turn my mind off work once I'm out of the office, but it's really hard. However, trying to start working out, making sure to eat less, reading around the forums and so on is somewhat helping. But only somewhat.

And is Working out the only secret to dealing with stress? Or you've got other tactics? I can't be the only one who feels like doing nothing when stress becomes just too much, right?

Prayer, and lots of it.

dubird

To be honest? First person shooters. Or some other game where you're killing monsters. You won't believe how much stress that relieves! Working out actually increases my stress because I don't like doing it. The only reason I still go on walks is because of Zombies Run, and if exercise was completely required to lose weight, I wouldn't have lost what I did.