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Stress is kind of misunderstood.
It’s basically a mechanism on your body to pump you up to solve a difficult high stakes problem (high stakes being subjective to each individual).
The problem comes is modern societies where 99% of the time you can’t be actively acting on the problem (you are in traffic worrying about your house payment) or the problem expands over time (some older family member has a chronic health condition).
Stress asks for action, so a good hack is to actually do something *physically* when you are stressed. Do errands walking, do exercise. It doesn’t need to be related to the cause or the stress, weirdly enough.
Talking about is tricky. Talking about it with intention to find solutions is good, but simply talking to a therapist can be just a bad proxy to talking to someone who can actually help you with the problem that is causing the stress.
Eventually people default to trying to solve bad mental health which is a consequence not the cause with money (drugs, appointments).
Attacking symptoms is always vastly more profitable that attacking the cause of a problem, never forget that, and stress comes from problems.
It’s basically a mechanism on your body to pump you up to solve a difficult high stakes problem (high stakes being subjective to each individual).
The problem comes is modern societies where 99% of the time you can’t be actively acting on the problem (you are in traffic worrying about your house payment) or the problem expands over time (some older family member has a chronic health condition).
Stress asks for action, so a good hack is to actually do something *physically* when you are stressed. Do errands walking, do exercise. It doesn’t need to be related to the cause or the stress, weirdly enough.
Talking about is tricky. Talking about it with intention to find solutions is good, but simply talking to a therapist can be just a bad proxy to talking to someone who can actually help you with the problem that is causing the stress.
Eventually people default to trying to solve bad mental health which is a consequence not the cause with money (drugs, appointments).
Attacking symptoms is always vastly more profitable that attacking the cause of a problem, never forget that, and stress comes from problems.