Stress......
We all know it, live it , breath it and deal with it.
How we all deal with it is different.
Some eat their stress away..... others workout... and some take it out on the ones they love the most. Or you may be one of the people who yells out the window at the people driving bad in there car, or blows up on the girl in the supermarket line.
Now when you eat your stress away..... does it really make things disappear? No. But for a few minutes you feel ease you feel that you have no worries in life. And then you look over next to you and see the bag of Peanut M & M's, empty can of Mt. Dew, a slice of Pizza and a coupon that was calling your name for Yogurtland...... which all equals a not so good feeling.
When you workout... it's more like you are getting out your aggression. You can run for an hour, or maybe do yoga and feel better. Yes, this may help you deal with your stress but the stress won't go away. It's still waiting there for you when you get back home. The good thing about squeezing in a workout is that it may prevent you from blowing up at someone you don't want to or crying when a little something goes wrong that at that moment seems like it's the end of the world.
As for the other methods..... of how we each deal with stress..
Taking it out on the one you love. Now most people just say that comes with the territory. But if you think about it. It's only going to make your special someone angry or stress, which then in turn will make you more stressed because you will feel guilty for being rude or unkind to them.
For the innocent bystander who get's you (a big ball of stress) in line at the supermarket, or behind them driving down the road. Nine times out of ten, they don't know you, they have problems of there own to deal with and yet you unload on them. Mind you it's not there problem, that you didn't get enough sleep , or your special someone and you got in a fight, or that you didn't get that promotion that you wanted at work. It's not even there problem that you are stress.
I know we are all stressed for different reasons, and some more than others. Some handle it, some breakdown when it get's to be to much.
So take a deep breath, punch a pillow, dance it off, sing at the top of your lungs, do whatever will make you smile. And think just a second before you unload your stress on someones shoulder.