What do you do when you are stressed? Any practical suggestions besides taking a walk or drinking tea?
Breath deeply 10x. Or rub one out, if I have the time.
Not at work, impossible
Well, the first step is to know what is causing you to become stressed. If you know what is causing you to get stressed you can use effective coping mechanisms to alleviate your stress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping_(psychology) Sleep, Adequate Nutrition, Hydration, and going to the gym help for me. However, there is behavioral therapy and chemical therapy to allievate stress. Most believe in at least behavioral therapy (the things I posted above), but depending on your situation you could try chemical therapy to assist as well if you wanted (drugs). Most believe that behavioral therapy is a must; chemical therapy is only required in certain situations.
Gym helps a lot for me. I also like to take a step back sometimes and think of the worst case scenario of my problem and realise it’s not as bad as I’m making it out.
if you don’t prepare your mind to handle stress before it happens, you’re in trouble when it comes. stress is great (personal growth inducing) when you approach it with the right mindset. but if it’s already on you and you’re looking for an easy way to relax, yea do some mindful breathing. do 10-count deep breaths and focus all your attention on the breath for as long as you can. if you lose focus, start back at 1. you should feel refreshed and worry free after 10 minutes.
that former lazard intern turned porn star would disagree
Also, cognitive distortions lead to anxiety, so try to avoid those —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
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Main types[edit]
The cognitive distortions listed below[1] are categories of automatic thinking, and are to be distinguished from logical fallacies.[5]
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All-or-nothing thinking (or dichotomous reasoning): seeing things in black or white as opposed to shades of gray; thinking in terms of false dilemmas. Splitting involves using terms like “always”, “every” or “never” when this is neither true, nor equivalent to the truth.
- Example: When an admired person makes a minor mistake, the admiration is turned into contempt.
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Overgeneralization : Making hasty generalizations from insufficient experiences and evidence. Making a very broad conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence. If something bad happens only once, it is expected to happen over and over again.[2]
- Example: A person is lonely and often spends most of her time at home. Her friends sometimes ask her to come out for dinner and meet new people. She feels it is useless to try to meet people. No one really could like her.[6]
- Example: After receiving comments about a work presentation, a person focuses on the single critical comment and ignores what went well.
- Example: Upon receiving a congratulation, a person dismisses it out-of-hand, believing it to be undeserved, and automatically interpreting the compliment (at least inwardly) as an attempt at flattery or perhaps as arising out of naïveté.
- Example: A student assumes the readers of their paper have already made up their mind concerning its topic, and therefore writing the paper is a pointless exercise.[5]
- Example: Being convinced of failure before a test, when the student is in fact prepared.
- Example: A teenager is too afraid to start driver's training because he believes he would get himself into an accident.
- Example: "I feel (i.e. think that I am) stupid or boring, therefore I must be."[7] Or, feeling that fear of flying in planes means planes are a very dangerous way to travel. Or, concluding that it's hopeless to clean one's house due to being overwhelmed by the prospect of cleaning.[6]
- Example: After a performance, a concert pianist believes he or she should not have made so many mistakes. Or, while waiting for an appointment, thinking that the service provider should be on time, and feeling bitter and resentful as a result.[6]
- Example of "labeling": Instead of believing that you made a mistake, you believe that you are a loser, because only a loser would make that kind of mistake. Or, someone who made a bad first impression is a "jerk", in the absence of some more specific cause.
- Example of "mislabeling": A woman who places her children in a day care center is "abandoning her children to strangers," because the person who says so highly valuesthe bond between mother and child.
- Example: A mother whose child is struggling in school blames herself entirely for being a bad mother, because she believes that her deficient parenting is responsible. In fact, the real cause may be something else entirely.
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- Example: a spouse blames their husband or wife entirely for marital problems, instead of looking at his/her own part in the problems.
and matthew mcconaughey in wolf of wall st.
Cheesecake
NOTHING is impossible! Go the distance
Meditation, workout, hugssssss 
I am not doing the last one enough…I mean, I am not doing the last one at all…O_O
There is a reason she is a former
Working out certainly helps.
It’s not the worst case scenario - it’s the lack of time to do everything I need to do that overwhelmes me. There is never enough time!
it is always ok to hug random strangers.
For work stress, finding an understanding colleague willing to listen and give trustworthy advice can help a lot.
I’m sure Analti’s posts help out then
squash. whiskey.
I am not really shifting blame here. It’s my own fault that I am easily distracted
The gentleman’s club is to men… as shopping is to women.
There you go, gender specific stress relief… gender specific ways to “waste” money.