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easily-available resources for stress coping and prevention!

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easily-available resources for stress coping and prevention!

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merican Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

National Alliance on Mental Illness.

MentalHealth.gov.

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well, for me, i don't

but in theory,

here's what i would do!

1. disconnect: i'd give myself some time alone with my thoughts. figure out exactly what's stressing me.
2. recenter: do some breathing exercises
3. if i can't confront the stressor, refocus: do something else. use a distractions
4. if i can confront the stressor, make a plan of action: figure out what's stressing me out and how to either turn that stress into motivation or figure out how to make the stressor stop stressing me out
5. take a nap: also a form of a distraction, it would help me reset
6. go on a walk/bike ride: the outside is magical, ya'll
7. vent: i'd express my feelings in possibly a not so calm way, because let's be honest, sometimes it feels REALLY GOOD to scream your problems into the void of the internet
8. take a bath: just decompress in the tub
9. read a book: loose yourself in the word of... well- another world
✨escapism is a healthy coping mechanism when used in moderation i will die on this hill ✨
10. scream: you heard me.

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there are positives and negatives, first off:
positives:
uhhh? i get motivated to do stuff?
i kinda go into this haze of I'M GONNA GO EVERYTHING THAT'S EVER BEEN DONE ALL RIGHT NOW IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES and it's kinda fun to see the results of that
when i power that stress into energy, it make me feel good and productive

BUT- and there's always a but- these feeling all hinge on weather i can turn the stress into productivity.

soooooo

without further adieu

✨the negatives✨

BURNOUT!!! :D *fixes non-existent glasses in a professor-like manor and adopts a very bad British accent* for you see:

when i go into the aforementioned 'I'M GONNA GO EVERYTHING THAT'S EVER BEEN DONE ALL RIGHT NOW IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES'  too many times it leaves me both mentally and physically exhausted. i get stuck in the anxious loop of 'i'm not being productive enough'  and neglect the more important things, like... you know... LIVING. i go days without eating and drink maybe a cup of water every 3 days and forgo showering etc. it's incredibly self destructive, and also incredibly hard to break out of the loop without outside intervention. at the beginning of quarantine, i went into a several-week long loop of this. at the end of i think a 3 week period i had lost almost 50 pounds, which sounds great, until you realize it's because i had been starving myself and working every hour of every day i could get, usually passing out between 2-3 am. I was such in a depressive and anxious state that i was having at least three major panic attacks a week and it was only getting worse the longer it went on. I've gone through similar things since then, but none quite as bad and none quite as long.