How do you handle stress?

I have a stressful job and every morning after I 've been up a short while and mentally vulnerable, I catch myself going....omg, omg, omg... Nice to know Im not the only one.

One way I handle stress is that I force myself to think of and appreciate my blessings. I jog....releases powerful endorphins. I push work out of my mind when Im home. I pray for strength.

 

Every work day for 35 years started the same way. I would get up early to walk the dogs for a mile thru the woods & fields, just lost in early morning nature and all the early rising critters. After prepping for work I would hop into one of my fun to drive cars and drive nine miles to work to N.J. on back winding, hilly roads between farms & orchards with a Cappuccino in hand and most days not another car in front or behind except the last half mile when I crossed into small town NJ. I was always pretty mellow for work and any accumulated work stress was washed away by repeating the process after work.

 

You must go through a lot of hiking boots every year!

 

If there's the opportunity I always get off the asphalt asap and walk on grass - that makes 'em last a bit longer.

 

I've got Christian tendencies, so I'm completely immune to stress because I know our life on earth is just a cabaret and not to be taken seriously..

 

Exercise and gardening - often combined as in digging a hole and planting something.
In the winter I read a lot, nearly always non-fiction. I get old textbooks and read them. Geology and History are good, Physics wasn't very relaxing...

 

I just disowned you.

Okay... exciting, inspiring, life changing, staggering, shocking, heart stopping... but not relaxing.

Physics is to math what sex is masturbation. - R Feynman

 

My son has been in combat several times. Now, when things go wrong, I just tell myself "nobody died" and whatever was trying to stress me out doesn't seem very important anymore.

 

Drugs.

 

Transcendental meditation and just generally living a very active and productive lifestyle are my keys to combating psychochological stress.

And sex. Lots of sex.

 

Whatever floats yer boat mate..
Since retiring 9 years ago I just mooch around at home 24/7 chilling and doing nothing and have never been happier because retirement is the world's longest coffee break.
As for sex, I haven't had it for 15 years and don't miss it, she just lay there not moving and not making a sound and I was bored out of my skull, although Bill Cosby might have been turned on by her..

 

Cue for a joke:

After a particularly unsatisfactory 'session':

Him: 'Do you mind if I smoke?'
Her: 'I don't care if you burst into flames!'

All most fellas want to do is turn over and

 

I am unable to blow off steam. I never could... and so I completely crater every 10 years or so.

So maybe that's how I blow off steam: all at once, in a catastrophic paroxysm. Then I rebuild.

 

I am also very anxious and impatient person. I have a hard time sitting still. I have a hard time holding my tongue. Lol.

I will go for a walk or maybe play a video game or I will start vigorously cleaning my house (I do this without even realizing that I'm doing it when I'm angry ).

 

Me too! My dad was so laid back and easy going. It took a whole lot to make him angry or stressed. My mother, OTOH, is a total spaz!

 

idk. I quite frankly always pull through stressful situations. I seem to get more calm and focused, attack the problem, and then, later, when I get home, I find some way to really relax. And frankly I think the usual bad stuff helps: sex, smoking (green or brown leaf, your choice), maybe a few drinks, and rest. Also massages hit the spot.

 

Uncle Ferd has sex with his g/f.

 

Yeah, my father is really laid-back too and so is my maternal grandfather. My brother is the same as well. I got the same gene as my maternal grandmother and mother.

I definitely believe personality traits are hereditary.

 

It sucks, doesn't it? I wish I had more patience and control a lot of times. I mean, sometimes I do, but other times I don't. I mostly have certain moods where some days I'm just bitchy I suppose! Some days I wake up and I'm like, I love life and I love people. Other days, I'm like, I hate everybody!

 

That's called "being normal"

 

I guess, but the instances of hating everyone are far outweighing the instances of loving them lately!

 

It's MUCH more fun to hate people than to love someone (excluding family members obviously)

 

Especially when it comes to politics and message boards. I suppose it's normal when all you discuss are your opposing political views.

 

Nope. I thought I was normal too until a teacher in high school told me I am always so cynical and pessimistic (loalz) and, a few years ago, someone at uni pointed out I am always nervous and stressed. This was at a point when I thought I had grown out of it.