How do you deal with stress/anxiety?

My surgery has put me out of my incredibly rigorous and competitive high school for three weeks.

I'm catching up on a lot of my reading, but the number of lectures I've missed has really put a dent in my education, and I have been feeling incredibly anxious about it to the point of not being able to sleep well at all for the past few days. I'm baffled as to how I can possibly hope to make up all of my tests and quizzes, and a lot of the more trivial assignments that my teachers have been giving out on a near-daily basis.

In short, I have anxiety problems and being out of school for three weeks has been a shocking experience. :( Man, to think I used to freak out over missing an afternoon...

OT, how do you deal with stress? If my scenario sounds stupid, just think about the last time you were severely stressed, and what you did to help you deal with it. I'm doing all the work I can at home, but there will always been that cloud of work and anxiety hanging over my head until I go back and catch up on everything, potentially over my Christmas vacation in a month as well.

I have tried breathing deeply and listening to calming music, which has helped a little. Any other suggestions? What do you do?

Games and talking to friends. Movies are great too.

Edit: Also try to tell friends how you are feeling. It's great to unload your feelings.

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hentai

Eat sweets and take naps.

i can definitely see how that would be stressing. having surgery alone would probably be stressful enough, but having to worry about how you're going to get all your schoolwork would make it twice as bad, i assume.

hopefully your teachers understand the situation you're in, if you have to like stay in the hospital and stuff i think they should cut you some slack.

Seriously, just kick back, watch TV and have a few beers (if you are of age). Hope the surgery goes/went well. :)

Seriously, just kick back, watch TV and have a few beers (if you are of age). Hope the surgery goes/went well. :)

Pirate700

i can definitely see how that would be stressing. having surgery alone would probably be stressful enough, but having to worry about how you're going to get all your schoolwork would make it twice as bad, i assume.

hopefully your teachers understand the situation you're in, if you have to like stay in the hospital and stuff i think they should cut you some slack.

needled24-7

Take a deep breath, google search on google news "child killed" and suddenly remove all self pity on my petty BS that I consider stress.CreasianDevaili

I find something to get engulfed in. Often it's TV series. When I'm on a really bad 'low' (occasionally I will get on an extremely severe major depressive episode that may last a week or a month, sometimes triggered by life events and sometimes just randomly) I let myself become almost obsessed with something, which allows me to distance myself from my stress and live outside my own mind, I guess you could call it, where my stresses don't have any effect on me. It sounds crazy and really extreme but it's not really. It's not like I make up imaginary friends, I just surround myself with something and am always learning about it so that I don't have the time to revert back to my stressful and anxious thoughts.XilePrincess

Eat sweets and take naps.

soulless4now

Pornography or sex, try it Dopamine is one hell of a drug.Fightingfan

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almasdeathchild

Rub one outScottMescudi

Games and talking to friends. Movies are great too.

Edit: Also try to tell friends how you are feeling. It's great to unload your feelings.

JasonDarksavior

I find something to get engulfed in.XilePrincess

Lately video games and manga has kept me busy from stressing out over anything.

Music use to help a lot but anymore it just feels like that makes it worse.

Reading / Writing

Listening to Music

Watching TV/Funny stuff on Youtube

Long and meaningful conversations with friends

Video Games

Nutella

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almasdeathchild

You and I can be the best of friends.

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freek666

You and I can be the best of friends.

the classic song "tubthumping" by chumbawumba. if lyrics like "i get knocked down, but i get up again" don't help, then i don't know

personally i just hold it all in and have a bit of a breakdown every now and then. not the best idea, but hey...

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Sleeping

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Pornography or sex, try it Dopamine is one hell of a drug.CaptainAhab13

Marijuana.

Rub one outScottMescudi

reading, bud, and music--in that order.

I drink. Often.

Go to bed.

I just started trying meditation.

Heck knows if I'm gonna commit or if I'm even doing it properly.

I play games. Lots of 'em. For a long time. Usually clears my head

I usually try to occupy my mind with gaming or i go to a friend's place. Alternatively i also share some of my life with a friend, help me feel better sometime.

A odd manner is i pet my kitties and hug them, it somehow help me at time.