How do you stay physically/emotionally/mentally healthy while living with intense ongoing stress?
I have been under a lot of stress for a while due to money, work and long distance relationship issues. People have recently started commenting to me about my health (specifically not eating much, and keeping to myself perhaps too much), and I know their concerns are valid. I just don't know how to make myself change.
11 Answers to "How do you stay physically/emotionally/mentally healthy while living with intense ongoing stress?"
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I depends on your religious worldview: if you are a man/woman of faith, then trust in your God/gods. I am a Christian, so I find immense comfort in knowing that everything is in God's hands and that "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." If you are a non-religious persion, then you may find comfort in those closest to you. They can be your support group :)
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Start with small things that validate and support you. If eating has become an issue then perhaps be really conscious about making something nice that you enjoy (preferably healthy) and sitting down at the table and making a decision to enjoy every bite. Just taking a few extra minutes a day to do this will help. Plus it has the added bonus of supporting and being kind to your physical body which is carrying you through all this stress. If you can afford some supplements then Omega 3 is always really good for stress and depression. I cannot stress the benefits of exercise enough. If you can get out and raise your heart rate you will feel better and sleep better and exercising is great for working off negativity. Take a bath and put a cup of salt in it, the negative ions will help support your energetic body and if you do not believe in that then just the act of running a bath and intending for the act of bathing to relax and support you will also help. Any act of self-love will help you.
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Put everything into perspective. In one year this will be "machts nichts". Meaning, it doesn't matter.
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I don't know, I'm pretty sure that in one year, I will still be worried about paying my student loans, paying for rent and food, finding a full-time job, and making my long distance marriage work. I was worried about all of this a year ago. Now even more so.
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Then what can you do to eliminate even a tiny portion of these problems right now? In the next 30 days?In the next 12 months? I'm not trying to belittle your problems and worries. But you have to actually DO something to eliminate them. Maybe that means giving up something. Changing something. Starting something. Otherwise, you're just wasting time & energy worrying. That's not productive.
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Ganja my friend.
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vodka
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I ran out off ***** to give
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I'm going through some of the same issues. I'm working to do the best I can to take care of myself. I'm doing everything you mentioned and it helps- but it doesn't fix underlying problems that might need to be addressed. I've realized that my answer to the long-term stress and problems in my relationship has been to just try to soldier on and hope things work out. If I do a good job, maybe someday I'll earn happiness by being patient. That hasn't been working out so well for me. My husband is a musician and we're almost never together, similar in some ways to a long - distance relationship. I'm realizing that by giving too much and waiting too patiently I'm hurting myself over time. We had a really tough conversation last night where I admitted this is hurting me more than I can deal with right now and that I need to pull back some. I've asked for separate rooms and I am going to take some time to just think about myself and my own needs. I can already feel some of my stress lifting. This may not be what you need to do, everyone's situation is different, but sometimes you have to look at whether your stress is due to something you need to change, but haven't.
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Run...Run...Run Takes your minds off things and makes you feel better, sleep better. Good for the brain.
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ha! thats a good question to me who takes on the world by choice......i have the odd melt down of my own, then i vent get up and start again......
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Posted by originnone 1 Oct 17th, 2012 at 5:24PM
As Bill Clinton would say, I feel your pain. The answer, I suppose, is to do the same things you would do if you were feeling good about things. Exercise, eat well, get sleep when you can, learn new things, do nice things for yourself - like spending time with people who build you up. Of course, I'm not one to talk.
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