What do you do when your upset or stressed?

Self explaining title....so...What do you do when your upset and stressed?

I cry & listien to sad music..Talk to a friend.

clean while listening to empowering music.

I get herpes on my fucking lips -.- No, but seriously. I was stressed on friday and I got herpes on saturday. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. I'm sorry for those mean words, i'm just out of control.

I'm getting off topic.
When I'm stressed I try to drink water and listen to some calm music and try to not think about those things that just happend..

I get an empty piece of paper and a pencil, I put my headphones in, draw/write anything that pops into my mind while listening. Cry if needed. Wear comfy and soft clothes to make me feel smoothed. Hugging my pillow (it never hugs back haha). Open my window for cold and fresh air to make me feel alive. Sometimes, talking to bestie helps too unless you need to get over it by yourself.
If I can't do any of these, if I'm outside or around people, I usually can't do anything, I get aggressive and try to avoid people and sing to myself. They say breathing exercises help.

Winter wrote:I get an empty piece of paper and a pencil, I put my headphones in, draw/write anything that pops into my mind while listening. Cry if needed. Wear comfy and soft clothes to make me feel smoothed. Hugging my pillow (it never hugs back haha). Open my window for cold and fresh air to make me feel alive. Sometimes, talking to bestie helps too unless you need to get over it by yourself.
If I can't do any of these, if I'm outside or around people, I usually can't do anything, I get aggressive and try to avoid people and sing to myself. They say breathing exercises help.

that sounds like a good idea!

Meditate and sleep.

I blast music and dance around the house like a moron
Usually while crying...

It helps me at least.

wow these are all great ideas....I've been under a lot of stress lately....(my fiance' is in the army, my mothers being ehhh, my grandmothers going in for surgery and is have memory lose, my bother is have money issues, and I am missing my loved ones that have passed on, not to mention trying to piece together my wedding) soooo I need all the help I can get
usually
I draw or write listen to music, dance vent in my live journal (I am not emo...) or talk with friends online...but these past few days I have been overly emotional and haven't been handling it well at all..... plus me being really sick.... it's all overwhelming..... so any stress relief helps right now....

I break out , you should see me around finals time it's bad. And I bite my nails, and play with my hair

@Katt I would really suggest meditation. It helps a lot. I'm trained in Transcendental Meditation, but just clearing your mind for about ten minutes is also helpful.

yes that would. My mother is a shaman so I didn't grow up with Jesus like a normal child (no offense to anyone I do believe in God tho) I grew up with stuff like "Be the water" (I'm a water element so yeah =___= ) and in the Wicca laws... well my mom knew I was an indigo child be for I was even born so yepp.... anyways back on subject...Meditation was something I was never good at... but I will try and see if it helps =] thank you <3

I completely shut everything out and go into my own little world.

I do different things (listening to music, brooding, writing,) there's never really a set thing that makes me feel better or even really gets my mind off of what's upsetting me.

If it gets too bad, I usually just end up going to sleep. :/

Katt wrote:yes that would. My mother is a shaman so I didn't grow up with Jesus like a normal child (no offense to anyone I do believe in God tho) I grew up with stuff like "Be the water" (I'm a water element so yeah =___= ) and in the Wicca laws... well my mom knew I was an indigo child be for I was even born so yepp.... anyways back on subject...Meditation was something I was never good at... but I will try and see if it helps =] thank you <3

Wow, that is so interesting. Your upbringing sounds fascinating! That kind of stuff is so cool to me.

Eat, write songs, hug my dogs, complain a lot

i go off on a rant in my journal, listen to music, chat with friends, and doodle.

go to the movies, go shopping.

I listen to music and I write post on TOL

ahh i sleep.. or listen music.. or cry.. sometimes a write poems..

writing poems thats cool

Music and dancing usually gets me in a better mood but this week I've spent most of my moping in bed

I think I may bake a cake today and have no shame about eating it all by myself XD See if that cheers me up a bit!

I've come to the conclusion that my constant stomach ache is caused by stress.

javieljones wrote:Music and dancing usually gets me in a better mood but this week I've spent most of my moping in bed

I think I may bake a cake today and have no shame about eating it all by myself XD See if that cheers me up a bit!

yummy cake sounds very yummy!!!

@JaneLove yeah I was the weird child but I survived and also sorry about your stomachache =[ try some herbal tea...peppermint =] it always helps me and it's good for you =] and I bake when I am stressed too but I whined up feeling all fatty-like after =/ but all these are great Ideas...I dunno why I've been so emotional lately I mean it's BAD emotional =/ I need all the tips I can get...

Working out also helps me A LOT. It's great to get the endorphins flowing and release all the pent up stress.

@Katt I've been drinking a lot of tea. :] Green tea, mostly. But not too much because caffeine makes me nervous. And thanks. :]

^ Try herbal tea! It's extra calming and has no caffeine. I really like camomile - it's soothing and makes you sleepy.

I drive around in my car while listening to music. :/ Wasteful.

I am a tea-a-holic lol soda is really bad =[ plus I say it weird b/c of my Canadian accent lol and hey driving is fun but with gas prices today.... >_<

^How do you pronounce it?

I always have tea. I bring a thermos of it to school. I love chamomile, but I've been drinking these teas I got in England because they're so much better than anything you can get here.

it comes out soda but i say my O's weird lol
and that must be so awesome to have teas from england *^.^*

Sometimes I say it like "so-der" lol. Boston accent.

you know how Canadians say a-boot instead of about? well that's how my O's come out...

Sooda. Like that?

What part of Canada are you from?

funny thing my ancestors come from Canada I'm US born.....

Some of my ancestors came though Canada before settling here in the US too.

sometimes I cry...sometimes i get a bad mood...sometimes i just don't talk anybody or if i do it i just talk to them very hard u.u

MusicMusicMusicMusic

I buy a crap load of music from iTunes

alis18 wrote:sometimes I cry...sometimes i get a bad mood...sometimes i just don't talk anybody or if i do it i just talk to them very hard u.u

yes, crying is very good

yep...i like cry though it makes you feel not better but it helps you

I think crying is healthy.........

Crying is very healthy because if you bottle your emotions too much it becomes disastrous because when that bottle is too full and breaks it's just an awful nightmare of emotions like sadness anger and depression. But I am a sap to crying I cry so easily especially at movies...that's another thing I do when I'm down is watch a movie....lol chick-flick+Popcorn+candy+ice cream= best sleep ever....lol I'm a weirdo...haha

I put on my headphones and go for a walk :3 .

Walking is a good way but I live in a national forest and Wildlife will eat me... >.< lol

I hold everything in and when some unfortunate fool angers me it all come out hahaha it could be some granny on a sidewalk who accidentally bumps me and then ->

Jk it hasn't gone that bad

I've done that too but it never worked I had sever anger out bursts so yeeeaaaaahhhhh I ry to find ways to contain or get rid of it lol like eating my comfort food...Homemade Pizza yum ^_^

My brother just told me this fact (not sure if it is true)
But when you listen to a song that you like, it triggers chemicals in your brain and it makes you happy.

If you think or do something that makes you happy (even if your not at the moment) it will help you when your not happy.
Best music to listen to when your upset is songs that higher your vibrations (vibrations are the waves of your emotions that go into your aura) so movies like Phantom of the Opera, or artists like Sara Brightman are all good for that. The upbeat and positive-ness is to help. because the more you higher your vibrations the more positive you become the more positive you become the better your life gets, the better your life gets the more happy you are and so on and so forth. So doing the things that make you happy will make your life better in the end in short LOL. I study metaphysics still =___=''' so I lean about auras and chakras and vibrations and all that good good gum drop stuff that when you explain it to people they look at you like "WTF? are they drunk?" lol so

But in short that is true BUT the catch to that is if it's a sad song that you like then chances are it will only add to your sorrow only covering it with a comfort zone....that make sense? Happy makes happy sad makes sad that's kinda what it comes down to....lol
sorry for the long (and confusing) post ^_^'''

Katt wrote:If you think or do something that makes you happy (even if your not at the moment) it will help you when your not happy.
Best music to listen to when your upset is songs that higher your vibrations (vibrations are the waves of your emotions that go into your aura) so movies like Phantom of the Opera, or artists like Sara Brightman are all good for that. The upbeat and positive-ness is to help. because the more you higher your vibrations the more positive you become the more positive you become the better your life gets, the better your life gets the more happy you are and so on and so forth. So doing the things that make you happy will make your life better in the end in short LOL. I study metaphysics still =___=''' so I lean about auras and chakras and vibrations and all that good good gum drop stuff that when you explain it to people they look at you like "WTF? are they drunk?" lol so

But in short that is true BUT the catch to that is if it's a sad song that you like then chances are it will only add to your sorrow only covering it with a comfort zone....that make sense? Happy makes happy sad makes sad that's kinda what it comes down to....lol
sorry for the long (and confusing) post ^_^'''

I think that you're right