Stress (as in, How To Relieve...)

People that plan on recommending sex, let it be known that such therapy cannot be carried out at this time in fashion you will offer. I will say no more on this, simply because I like it when I sound all ponderous and clandestine, especially when it's about NOTHING, ha ha ha.

Integrate your stress into your life, weave it in like string, revel in it. Make it funny. Acknowledge when stress is turning you into a raving psycho and make light of it. Let stress destroy your personality entirely and measure how humourous it is to have no personality (quite hilarious in my experience). See how stressed you can actually get and then just let it all go. Invite stress in and then pull the rug out from under it.

If you give yourself permission to do whatever you like with your stress and take control of your feelings of rage then maybe it/they will subside?

or maybe just like, take a warm bath and count backwards from twenty or something.

How easeful is death by blood letting in a warm bath?

soothe my savage breast
You should start wearing bras. It will relax you.

It's a manzier!

Aside from Bras or Laser Guided Melodies as relievees Id say dont sweat it. Get a nice bottle of Pinot Noir and let it all slide. Peffarbly with a loaf of fresh bread but you know each to his own.

I had a physical yesterday. My blood pressure is 100/80, which is damn good, especially for a freaked out twerp such as myself. Yet, I'm playing with the XBox again yesterday, and I'm auditioning as an extra in 12 Monkeys, pulling my hair out, cussing and swearing, frustration reaching an all-time high.

Maybe I should stop playing computer games.

Hmmm Have you tried a cup of warm milk before going to bed? To me this is the natural stress reliever.(Just sip it slowly) It really works! :) I hope you try it!

Ooh no. I remember an episode of Home and Away where Ailsa wuld always sleep walk whenever she had hot milk before bed. And it wouldn't do you any good to wander outside and have people seeing you in your bra.

No, it wouldn't, indeed. Though my breasts are large enough that one might be useful.

Make sure you are getting lots of sleep
Stop playing computer games
Go for a walk every day, even if it is just 5 minutes around the block, but actually look at the world as you walk by it
Consider stopping eating bread. Apparently the mould inhibitors they put in it have an accumulative effect which makes people irritatable and short fused - maybe try buying additive free bread for a couple of weeks to test this.

Make it work for you. Become a professional stress puppy. When the going gets stressful, the stressful turn pro.

Stress Puppy = the Tickle Me Elmo of 2K2?

Skin up.

What toraneko said is why you see soccer hooligans stuffing their faces with pints of bread isn't it?

just stop getting so worked up that i'm the better writer.

Dude, I am SO fine with that. (Well, not really.) (Well, no, not @ all.) (Ah, sheeeit.)

I have stayed away from the XBox these past two days, and I have been doing A-OK. My acne's clearing up, too. And my arthritis is a thing of the past.

i think i need to look at destressing strategies of some kind, physically i'm feeling a weird tightness in my chest which i'm a bit worried by. i'm actually not stressed about anything in particular, but both work and home are quite tense atmospheres, not relaxed atmospheres anyway. i think i need to do the following

1. be in bed by 10pm on weeknights, in order to get full nights sleep
2. cut right down on alcohol/smoking/going out
3. turn computer off instead of leaving on downloading

any other suggestions?

Now, I heard from an experienced medical-type person (actually, I think it was Ricki Lake) that stress is the feeling of not being in control. So here is my method.

I go down the pub, by myself, and get a pint of Stella. I then drink my Stella and smoke a fag. I then put out my fag, and gaze out the window. I tell myself "Stress is the feeling of not being in control, so you must take control. What are you not in control of?"

I then answer myself. I then reply "Which aspects of this are you not in control of?" and then the problem is broken down.

I know this all sounds like psycho-wank, but believe me, its calmed me down on plenty of occasions and taught me how to fix problems well easy. Try it - it costs a pint of Stella.

Now, I heard from an experienced medical-type person (actually, I think it was Ricki Lake) that stress is the feeling of not being in control. So here is my method.

I go down the pub, by myself, and get a pint of Stella. I then drink my Stella and smoke a fag. I then put out my fag, and gaze out the window. I tell myself "Stress is the feeling of not being in control, so you must take control. What are you not in control of?"

I then answer myself. I then reply "Which aspects of this are you not in control of?" and then the problem is broken down.

I know this all sounds like psycho-wank, but believe me, its calmed me down on plenty of occasions and taught me how to fix problems well easy. Try it - it costs a pint of Stella.

Oh, and staying up is a really bad idea. Be in bed by 9 - you may miss all the riviting television, but

believe me, you'll feel hell of a lot better. If you can't get to sleep, read a kids book (Hobbit, Peter Pan etc" as this always makes your brain go numb and happy.

If you are stressed, you only need three things:
Whiskey.
Someone to rub your back.
Someone stupid to laugh at.

hmm, thing is, i feel completely in control. i'm not actually worried about anything. its more, like, physical stress, as though body cant keep up, but then there is tension also (actually that does then make sense johnny, in that i suppose i dont feel in control of work or my house).

i think the computer being on in the corner of the room is quite a tense sound/view. i think i will turn off when not in use

Oh, don't have the computer on when you're not using it. Nothing winds you up more than the hum of a computer fan.

If its physical stress, definitely get some kip. 2 hours more sleep makes a big ol' difference to your mental health.

abra stress therapy bath salts, usually available at stores that sell homeopathic/natural bath products. really great for relaxing muscles and easing you off to sleep, and a great jet-lag remedy as well.

Kill it with machines!
Get some information on wearable biofeedback devices, or (goodluck on this one) biofeedback video games.

God, the answers (depressingly)simple...up thread, David makes a freudian slip that reveals the underlying problem:

"I KNOW this is indicative of some deep-seeded thing inside of me"

Never thought i'd have to say this, but..YOU PEOPLE NEED TO MASTURBATE MORE!

(Just go to a different website first, OK?)

more? MORE? i'd have to quit my job