stress

brownbear said:stress is good up to a certain amount. It's what drives us to achieve.

I've got the biggest exams/anything of my life in 2 minutes and if i wasn't stressed there's no way id pass.

Same with Mr_haz- Stress is what drives him to make the right decision when s**t goes crazy on the table!

Dan said:
VG is right, that is not stress, that's just pressure - and very mild pressure in the grand scheme of things. If you were to fail the exams, and I sincerely hope you do not, you simply re-sit them at a later date.
Stress occurs when pressure is present for a prolonged period, over months and years, where there are very real ramifications and you start to feel there is nothing you can do about it.
Your physical and mental health are affected and it takes potentially life changing decisions to move away from the situation you are in.
But we ARE all in control of our own lives and no matter how bad things might seem we CAN make the necessary changes.

Dan said:
But we ARE all in control of our own lives and no matter how bad things might seem we CAN make the necessary changes.

1369phil said:
Life is about 10% what happens to you and abut 90% how you react to it .

slimsim said:I find the best way to deal with stress is to squash those feelings. Screw them up into a little ball deep inside of you and keep them hidden from everyone. Tell nobody how bad or stressed your feeling and then put on a brave face.

Then RAHHHHHHHHHHHH explode like Mount f**king Vesuvius reigning terror on some poor c**t who's made the slightest remark and rubbbed you up the wrong way. Punch something and break your own hand, fall out with friends, upset your family, hurt those closest to you.

I've done the latter many many times in my life, but maybe the actual solution is just to talk about it. Let's face it, women piss us all off when they start weeping about s**t or go on and on and on about something which doesn't interest us at all but you rarely see them acting like neanderthals due to a little "stress".

milsy said:I used to be very aggresive and I blame most of that on an ex girlfriend who used to run rings round me with head games when she didn't have anything better to do her favriote line after she had got me proper worked up about somthing was "what you gunna do now hit somthing" used to make me even more angry my girlfriend now actually chills me out which is how I suppose it should be

dr_hazbun said:
That tactic unfortunately doesn't work for me.
'I'm sooo stressed. Oh well, it's not life or death...Ohhh s**t...'

milsy said:how do you guys cope with it ?

FAT_SAM said:
Eliminate the cause of it.
In the past, I found stress to prevent me from making gains. I actually live a very simple life now purposely to avoid it.
I just work on the door - for me it's a stress free job. I'm smart enough to do a lot more, but a 9-5 job with mote responsibility and the stress that comes with it? No thanks...

FAT_SAM said:
Eliminate the cause of it.
In the past, I found stress to prevent me from making gains. I actually live a very simple life now purposely to avoid it.
I just work on the door - for me it's a stress free job. I'm smart enough to do a lot more, but a 9-5 job with mote responsibility and the stress that comes with it? No thanks...