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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 10, 2017 at 11:49 pm
Tres,in all honesty, if it wasn't for Pam, I'd be completely stuffed in all aspects... (don't tell her that, she'll get a big head!)
I really couldn't care about most things really as long as I've got the companionship of my ever faithful and reliable other half and a roof over our head ...
The rest is just really 1st world distractions.
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What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 10, 2017 at 11:57 pm
(March 10, 2017 at 9:57 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: What do you do when you're just barely holding it together?
Do you mean being bummed out or about to lose it?
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 12:26 am
(March 10, 2017 at 9:57 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: Let's face it, we all have moments when we're just barely holding it together. Heck, that sometimes describes weeks, months, years at a time for me.
In the past I would have reached for lots of food - more sugar, please.
The article below talks about exercise as self-medication.
I find that the more I physically move, even if it's without a specific purpose, the less chance anxiety has to chase me down and beat me up. Keeping my brain busy helps, too.
What do you do when you're just barely holding it together?
Quote:"What do you do, reader, when the imps of agitation are upon you? When they’re running up and down your insides, each with his little wavering bouffant of blue flame, making the present tense an almost impossible place to be? Do you have a drink? Take a pill? Reach for your laptop? Shovel a drooping, dripping slice of pizza into your face? Because if America—as John Updike beautifully observed—is a conspiracy to make you happy, it is also a conspiracy to make you anxious, violent, horny, and obese."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...ty/508766/
When I was still teaching and had too much to do I'd compensate with food. Like you, sweets were my treats. With no where near that kind of stress now I've got a handle on the whole snacking thing. Mostly, I just don't want to eat recreationally. Food is for fuel, though it's great to add a dash of socializing and to make it as aesthetic as possible.
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 2:07 am
My self-care tends to fall into one of three types:
- Work on a project around the house that requires a lot of physical labour, such as tidying up the garden or doing some carpentry.
- Take myself out for coffee and just watch everyone go by.
- Hot bath and an early night.
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 2:18 am
Go to the gym.
Have sex.
Chat to people I like.
I always feel pretty emotionally stable but when I feel myself slip slightly then doing these things helps me out.
Plus I live in England, we don't get sun all that much. Going out in the sun relieves my stress a lot in the summertime. Going for a walk in the countryside, going for a long long cycle or going for a drive. I love the summer.
I don't think I've ever been into eating bad food to help stress.
I used to smoke weed, drink too much and play computer games and drink way too much caffeine and so on but I've given all those things up now.
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 4:26 am
When life is too much, I shift to my virtual life in Skyrim 
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 5:04 am
Aoi, I just installed the special edition! Very nice updated graphics ...now with mods built in ...No more Nexus needed... Bit I'll still use it.
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 6:24 am
I used to cope with being overwhelmed by throwing rocks at protestants, but that's frowned upon now (fucking political correctness).
These days, I usually cook something. I like to cook, and I'm good at it. It kind of puts me back in 'the middle' and makes me realize that things are never as bad as they seem.
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 6:55 am
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Complain to my wife how everything is terrible.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: What Do You Do When Life Is Too Much?
March 11, 2017 at 10:08 am
In the past, nothing healthy. I'd be consumed by anxiety, sometimes requiring hospitalization.
Now, I'm using techniques from DBT (dialectic behavioral therapy).
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