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You're right, it's stupid, but that's pretty much what I do.
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You're right, it's stupid, but that's pretty much what I do.
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"No bad words. Just bad ideas."
When I was extremely pissed off at a game for some reason. I would explain my anger or what the game was doing wrong. Or if it was somebody I would explain to myself what was wrong that made me angry. Explaining things calms me down I don't quite get it but it works. and by the way it doesn't help to say "it's just a game" to somebody who is frustrated by said game just thought I'd throw that out there.
Tummy aches. Listen to music for hours at night. Smoke quite a bit too much. Go on angry rants about things that don't really matter.
However, if I just remind myself in time to go down to the studio and dance it off, I can usually completely avoid all of the above mentioned stress reactions. I recommend almost everyone to find an enjoyable physical activity, or any activity that doesn't allow for overthinking, it really can save your life.
However, if I just remind myself in time to go down to the studio and dance it off, I can usually completely avoid all of the above mentioned stress reactions. I recommend almost everyone to find an enjoyable physical activity, or any activity that doesn't allow for overthinking, it really can save your life.
I just sleep through it all. I once slept for like 30 hours because I couldn't bare to get out of bed. I wasn't unconsciously asleep the whole time, though. But I wasn't awake or sitting up either.
I also tend to stop eating as much, sometimes down to just one small meal a day. Having an empty stomach sometimes helps me feel less sickly.
If I'm in an actual situation though, I tend to respond with the most inappropriate humour my darn brain can muster. I manage to contain most of it in my head, but it's very hard to stay in control when your brain won't shut the heck up about the weirdest things. D:
I also tend to stop eating as much, sometimes down to just one small meal a day. Having an empty stomach sometimes helps me feel less sickly.
If I'm in an actual situation though, I tend to respond with the most inappropriate humour my darn brain can muster. I manage to contain most of it in my head, but it's very hard to stay in control when your brain won't shut the heck up about the weirdest things. D:
Don't do it up the stairs; I tumbled down them as I was crawling on my way to get food, got carpet burn on my face, bent my neck and my shoe fell off.sky14kemea said:
@DrStrangeLove: Yes, we've all learned the lesson and tried that, but after a given amount of time with no incidents, we fall into the trap of confidence. It is not the lava that is our enemy, doctor, it is ourselves, our hubris! We dug too greedily and too deep.
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I work in a high stress job, and to stop myself becoming ill, I go for a long walk (by getting off the bus a couple of stops early and walking to the next stop/ walk home) and then when I get home I tend to take a long hot bath, change into my pyjamas, and then go into my room, fire up my Nintendo Gamecube/ Playstation 2 and play something like Resident Evil 4 or Psychonauts, I find shooting things rather therapeutic. Through doing things like that, it gives me the strength to go back to work the next day and not scream and tear my hair out.
I seem to go in cycles, mostly I'll go into complete escapism mode without realising and buy way to many games. Eventually I'll clue in that something is bothering me that I'm ignoring and figure out what it is.
For high-stress but mostly short-term scenarios (exams for example) try to eat healthy, drink a lot of water,get some exercise and recognise that the body's stress response is preparing you for battle and you can totally handle this shit.
For things just generally being fucked up, get some paper and a pen and just start writing. It doesn't matter what just write what you feel. Get it out of your head. It's much much easier to deal with the problem when it's laid out in front of you.
Then make a list of what is in your control and what you can do to make it better and a list of what you can't control. And don't worry about the stuff you can't control, just hope for the best, whatever happens will happen etc etc.
As my Gramps always says "don't sweat the small stuff, and in the end, it's all small stuff"
For high-stress but mostly short-term scenarios (exams for example) try to eat healthy, drink a lot of water,get some exercise and recognise that the body's stress response is preparing you for battle and you can totally handle this shit.
For things just generally being fucked up, get some paper and a pen and just start writing. It doesn't matter what just write what you feel. Get it out of your head. It's much much easier to deal with the problem when it's laid out in front of you.
Then make a list of what is in your control and what you can do to make it better and a list of what you can't control. And don't worry about the stuff you can't control, just hope for the best, whatever happens will happen etc etc.
As my Gramps always says "don't sweat the small stuff, and in the end, it's all small stuff"