What are you doing to cope with stress?

[mahina]

Ideas for changing thoughts and releasing fear, standing in our truth, Excercise, laughter, bourbon, all most welcomed.

Mahalo DU.

[Generic Brad]

1. I am looking for a job

Believe it or not, being severanced from my long time job has been way more stressful than anything happening in Washington.

[lunasun]

6. Best outcome to you soon

[mahina]

16. Best luck in the world.

Hearts up.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

36. Paz.

[samplegirl]

44. I agree

Lost my job last March so it’s been a year. Working two part-time jobs has been hard. Finding work is exhausting and depressing.

[Skittles]

2. kicking ass

[mahina]

17. Yass!

[3catwoman3]

3. Cookies and milk while rewatching...

...Downton Abbey episodes.

[mahina]

15. Mmm

Sounds delicious.

[Kath2]

4. I will certainly not quit smoking until tRump is out of office.

Mahalo.

[mahina]

14. I feel you.

[Kath2]

19. Another obnoxious tweet from A-hole.

And I have to have a cigarette. Not in the good way like after sex.

The bad way - stressed out to the max.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Me, too.

I gave up alcohol 9 years ago - smoking's all I've got left.

[zanana1]

49. I gave up alcohol 39 years ago and smoking 20 years ago...

Now I eat. It's all I've got.

[dameatball]

58. I gave it up about 9:30 last night when I couldn't understand my own posts. I feel better now.

[fierywoman]

5. I'm listening to some very well educated, very savvy, very snarky, very up on US politics

women tarot readers on the internet.
I feel better.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's not the DU way of thinking about stuff -- Tant pis, peggio per voi. (With love to y'all.)

[MontanaMama]

8. That is fascinating!

I’d love to know more about who you’re listening to!

As for me, I’m doing my best to relieve stress differently day to day...a nap here and there because I don’t sleep well at night, I take CBD oil for those nights...listening to Enigma radio on Pandora, watching baseball...playing with my batshit crazy dogs and wine...thank the universe for wine.

[fierywoman]

18. go to

Psychic Violetta, Lena Rodriguez, Kirsten Langston and the Empress! Oh and another but I don't quite remember her name -- something like Dweller between waters?
Listen to Violetta and Lena from today to get a taste ...
I wish you peace. xoxo
oh god yes wine !!!
(They're all on youtube.)

[MontanaMama]

22. Sounds like its right up my alley.

An esoteric escape. I’ll check it out tonight when I’m not sleeping! I wish you peace too. Peace for all of us.

[lunamagica]

21. How is the CBD oil working for you?

[MontanaMama]

23. Wonderfully! Most of the time.

No more sleep prescriptions at all but I have to take the CBD early enough in the evening and make sure I get the tv turned off so I have little noise stimulation. I take a tincture as well as a stronger distilled version that I squirt into a gel cap. I feel relief about not taking prescriptions any more.

[lunamagica]

35. I'm glad it's working so great for you

My anxiety and insomnia have reached record levels this past year and a half. I even took Zoloft for a while, but it didn't help.

I've been virtually sleepless for three nights. I hate this.

[MontanaMama]

47. It is so hard not to sleep.

You feel so cheated! As if the days aren’t stressful enough...to feel anxious through the night is the greatest insult. I never thought we would be here and yet here we are.

[mahina]

12. I would love to hear that too.

Is it available to us too? If so and if you don’t mind, I would be grateful for a link by pm.

Merci, a bientot!

[fierywoman]

20. look above to my reply to MM -- de rien!

[Kath2]

13. Stephanie Miller helps me.

[MontanaMama]

25. Stephanie is a warrior

goddess. She’s incredible.

[Kath2]

27. I love her.

I am at work when she is on. But I listen later. She is excellent.

[cilla4progress]

7. Booze, marijuana, hard work

and good play.

I boomerang from insomniac despair to maintaining a positive outlook.

[MontanaMama]

10. Me too.

Sometimes the sky is falling and sometimes it seems like all will be okay.

[cilla4progress]

31. Really looking forward to

the march on Saturday.

[Maeve]

9. Whiskey. Lots and lots of whiskey

I prefer triple-distilled Irish, Connemara, if I can get it, but a lemon-wrapped brick up-side the head if nothing else. (Oh, and whisky if whiskey is not available. The difference is that whiskey is made in Ireland and America, whisky in Scotland or Canada and the hell I care if it's made outside those four countries)

[PunksMom]

11. I was never a big drInker

but I’ve found solace in a good martini or two, three times a week. I can’t take much more though😩

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Lately I've been eating way too much ice cream, so

I'll probably switch to liquor.

[bettyellen]

34. HA, Ive been craving something like a mudslide or Kahlua milkshake!

[RandySF]

26. Very bad habits

[Lifelong Protester]

28. A glass of wine every night now.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. Alcohol.

I also think that it helps me a lot that I don't own a TV and I read a lot. Mostly non-fiction on many, many topics.

[frazzled]

30. Solitaire

Lots of solitaire. It really empties the brain out effectively. But also:

Movies, like especially old ones on TCM that take you totally out of recent decades. Plus they distract you for a full 2 hours.

Cooking, preferably with lots of mindless chopping, mincing, stirring. Anything repetitive and time consuming. Bonus: you get to eat it.

Music, for me anything soothing, like cool jazz, vocalists, Brazilian, etc. Tonight we went to Symphony and sat through Schubert’s Mass, no. 6 in E-flat major. Great for the first 30 or 40 minutes, then your brain cells really start to melt into oblivion. Dona nobis pacem.

Daily 25 minute full body workout with lots of stretching and strengthening.

More Solitaire. Then reading in bed and sleep. Cognac helps.

My pathetic routine to avoid reality.

[3catwoman3]

33. I have played...

...TNTC (too numerous to count) games of cell phone solitaire. Watching patterns develop and fall into place is very soothing.

[mahina]

45. Not pathetic, frazzled seriously good ideas.

Here's something good! A different flavor altogether...

Vulfpeck! Minimalist soul?

[Laffy Kat]

32. I drank wine by myself tonight and it actually helped a little.

Now I'm in bed waiting for Colbert to start. I'm returning to work tomorrow after a week off and that will help too.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

37. Comedy escape! ...chris rock, ricki gervais comedy specials on netflex now. Laughter

...is the best remedy.

[Kablooie]

38. This

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. I didn't know you could still get those things!

[Kablooie]

40. Still around.

https://www.amazon.com/Toysmith-Bug-Out-Bob-Toy/dp/B000P51LDK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1521783852&sr=8-2&keywords=martian+popping+thing

[Solly Mack]

41. Building, painting, staining, re-purposing, redoing everything about my house.

Building new pieces, turning old pieces into new things. Painting, staining, making my own stepping stones, making my own back-splash. Making light fixtures - using a wire frame, paint stirrers, stains in various colors and a pendant light.

As well as gardening.

Keeping busy making my home an escape from all the crazy happening outside my door.

[AJT]

51. That sounds incredible. You have both creativity and building skills, very cool.

[Solly Mack]

61. Very limited skills. :)

But I try and my most of my projects are simple and easier to do than I first thought. Looked more intimidating than it turned out to be.
(Fortunately)

Also, been doing a lot of reading and watching of "How to" videos.

[LeftInTX]

55. That's a good, healthy outlet

When then the world is a better place, your home will still be a better place!

[Solly Mack]

62. It's kept my mind busy. I still get the news but then I go work on a project.

Helps a lot.

[The empressof all]

42. Korean Dramas....

Reading subtitles helps focus me and I can't pick up my phone or surf elsewhere when I'm involved. They are usually good for 20 hours binges which allows character and storyline development. I find for the most part they are escapist and uplifting and it's interesting immersing myself into a different culture.

[DFW]

46. I just went through two messed up years

My wife got cancer (again), Trump and his demon hoarde took over the US government, the US and the German governments still can't decide which one of them needs to stop asking me for half my income, my heart condition hasn't gotten any better, (though no worse, either), and my work schedule hasn't gotten any lighter. I still can't find a replacement, and I am determined to retire at age 80, maybe even before that if I ever get tired of this job I've had since 1975. It involves lots of travel, great pay (especially if Germany and the USA stop trying to take a combined 90% of it), and unlimited vacations as long as the work--there is plenty--gets done. But at some point, enough will be enough.

Soooooo, stress? I just shove it in a special little drawer I have for such nuisances, and only open it when I REALLY have to, or when I have nothing else to do (yaaah, like THAT has ever been an issue). If something bad happens and I can't change it, stress isn't going to make things any better. If something bad happens and I CAN change it, but fail--THAT'S stress. That's what I try to avoid.

The things I think I can handle? Go ahead, make my day. I'll manage or I won't. Stress won't change anything, so into that drawer it goes.

[mnhtnbb]

48. I separated from my husband of 32 years last November and moved to a rental beach house

in Emerald Isle, NC to cope with that stress. My beach house lease is up at the end of this month and I'm going to miss
my ocean view and beach walks with my dog, Snowy.

But, we will be moving in to a downtown, high rise studio apartment in Raleigh next week. I managed to get most
of my favorite art and decorative objects out of the house earlier in the week where I used to live in Chapel Hill and moved
to the apartment. It's going to feel like home.

Unfortunately, I won't be in Raleigh this Saturday (one last week at the beach) to join the March. But I plan on participating
in plenty of protests/marches as we move in to election season. I have my voter registration form printed out and ready to
complete/mail so I will be all set to vote in my new location come November.

So I have been stressed on two fronts: personal and political. I have done what I could to manage the personal stress which has been
overwhelming in addition to the political stress. For the political stress, I limit watching cable news. I limit my time on DU.
I have been watching the old seasons of The West Wing on netflix. I have been reading a lot of novels. I walk my dog, Snowy,
several times/day. I had been drinking alcohol--daily--but I have given that up. Losing weight is more important and by giving
up alcohol and paying a little more attention to what I eat, the weight is coming off.

I am trying to put my personal needs first and do the things that I can control to make myself feel better. Trying to avoid as much
of the negative news as possible until I am in a position (after moving to Raleigh) where I can do something positive to contribute
to the blue wave in November.

[Aristus]

50. Drinking.

[Zoonart]

52. I clean...

I take it all out on the dirt.

[hermetic]

53. I drink a bit

then I get up again, nothing's ever gonna keep me down.

I take care of a large cat colony; that keeps me occupied. I read a lot. I gave up watching TV many years ago and now my only news comes from DU and some great folks on Twitter. Still, though, I wish I could get far away from this country and the unbelievable bullcrap that is taking place here. I've had it.

[still_one]

54. My music, piano

[Motley13]

56. Wine

[whathehell]

57. Going to Canada for two weeks

I may stay longer..I need a break from the insanity.

[shenmue]

59. Vodka

[Bayard]

60. Pet/play with my dogs

And pull weeds like a mad woman in the garden. Put some of my favorite music on, and dance by myself around the house.

[HipChick]

63. Lot's of Cadbury Easter Egg choclates..

Phone on Do-Not-Disturb..

[Phentex]

64. Exercising and eating...

neither helps for very long.