Stress

OK, don't hate me here, but I have absolutely no stress. In fact, I can't even fathom stress. I can't imagine why anyone would want to be constantly jumpy, whiny, sulky, tempermental, etc. I often wonder what it's like...is it completely uncontrollable? Is it almost an external factor? I always see all these people that are always on the edge, you make a little mistake, and their bald head turns beat red, they start breathing heavy, generally look like they're going to explode. When ever someone makes a little mistake at my expense, I just wave it off with a "fuck it." Why can't everyone else do that? Please, share your insights on stress...it fascinates me.

Ahhh innocense!! I remember those days. God I wish I had them again. Okay Heep, without sounding like an asshole. I wish I could just wave off the stress. Unfortunately, 98% of the stress that I go through everyday is work related. When you have to deal with incompetent and sometimes idiotic people, they swing on your last nerve like a jungle gym. On a personal level, I don't stress anything really, cuz I can just say fuck off. However, at work, I don't have that luxury. Especially with the amount of responsibility that I have, a mistake on my end, could cost a company millions of dollars. Therefore, I have to be accountable for everything. When someone else makes a mistake that I have to clean up, it kills me at how stupid they are. Even some of the money managers that I have to deal with. These guys are making six figure salaries, have more money than they can shake a stick at, yet they can't seem to be able to read a simple instruction. I won't even get into the hand writing of some.:huh: But it kills me to know how some people even remember that their heads are attached to the rest of their body. So as it pertains to work, I am under a great deal of stress, especially around quarter end.

On a personal level, I don't really care about anything, so maybe I can safely say that I don't really stress anything.

My opinion is your way of handling stress can have alot to do with the environment you grow up in. My household for the most part was peaceful...when stuff did come up, like a family member dying, my parents were calm and took care of business, then did their emotional stuff in private. Even when our house caught on fire when I wa s 9 no one was sprinting for the front door...we just all got up and got our dogs and walked out.

For me personally I experience frustration more than "stress". For example when other administrative people call in sick at my office I am stuck doing their work. When I am out sick or on vacation no one does my work so I come back to a big pile of crap to work on. Other people call in for a runny nose or a stubbed tow, whereas I wait til I am on the brink of death before I call in. It's just an irritant when others look for anyway out of doing what needs to be done.

Oh yeah and my other favorite thing is realizing how inept or lazy people can be. I get at least 5 dumb emails a day to the effect of: "The stapler in the copy room is jammed, can you unjam it?" or "The adjustment lever on my chair isn't working, can you come look at it soon? I really need to get my work done and can't do it with my chair sitting this high (or low)".

Ok I am done now :D

My sister, Math and Physics are basically all of my stress.

Originally posted by Porsche
My sister, Math and Physics are basically all of my stress.

I can relate to the sister and math LOL.

My sister is 11 years older than me so you can imagine how much she used me as her personal pin cushion and punching bag for her "angry" days...that's ok as I got older I got my revenge.

School owns me. Literally.

Originally posted by johnny
School owns me. Literally.

Me Too, Unfortionatly :(

There are times at work that I feel some stress, but I do enjoy my work so it passes pretty quick. As I've gotten older, I've learned not to stress over things to much. Theres going to be another time and somehow the assholes generally get theres in the end anyway.

I am the cause of most of my stress. I am kinda the mother to all my friends even though I'm one of the younger ones... Anyways, I always have one of them running to me with their problems expecting me to fix it. Well, in the last year or so, I finally stopped keeping everything inside. I find little vents to let out my anxieties. However, I can be set off VERY easily at times. If I don't have complete control of what I'm doing I get very anxious and I stress myself out. I sometimes expect too much from myself in trying to impress others when meanwhile, others are impressed with most everything I do even if it isn't up to my standards. Oh, and I overreact to most everything that doesn't go my way :( I have a bad little tendency to suspect every downfall as my ultimate end... That's about it...

Other than that, you don't stress much then huh? J/K...I know what you mean though. I've had friends call in the middle of the night with something and thru my sleepy mind try to come up with a decent solution for them.

I leave my phone disconnected, at least at night. The girls in the house always have someone calling at 3:30 AM. I start throwing things at ringing phones that wake me up.

Originally posted by Heep
I leave my phone disconnected, at least at night. The girls in the house always have someone calling at 3:30 AM. I start throwing things at ringing phones that wake me up.

*lol* I keep my cell phone on 24/7 just incase someone has a nightmare or something :hehe:

Inconsiderate drivers really get my blood boiling! :mad: :mad: You know the guy that's more important that everyone on the road and has to be somewhere before everyone else?

I don't get mad much but those assholes really make me wish I could just legealy shoot out their tires!

Please tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back....take a deep breath...and RELEASE THE ANGER!!! hehe

I hate the little punk be-itchs that won't let you over when you are trying to make an exit or a turn, like it's realy going to hurt them to slow down for half a second to let you over and worse then that are those bastards that pull out into the middle of an intersection with a line of traffic in front of them and no were to go and then your light turns green but you can't go anywhere because bubba in his 15 inch lifted 76 bronco is blocking the intersection. Sometimes it makes me want to put huge steal bumbers all around my car and just start making my own way through traffic.

Originally posted by KatWoman
Please tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back....take a deep breath...and RELEASE THE ANGER!!! hehe
Weeeeeeeeeeezzzzz....BLLLLAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Whew, thanks! :D

I pull over when people wanna get by, doesn't bother me and it makes them happier. For instance, a few days ago, I made a turn onto another road, and a Mazda Tribute also turned on behind me. It was just a bunch of young guys, so they started tailgating. I played a little bit, floored it, and went up to 100KPH in a 50 zone, but they obviously wanted to keep going faster, so I just moved over in my lane a bit, slowed to 90, and put on my 4-ways. The guy gave a friendly toot as he went by.

Wow it seems that everywhere i look theres STRESS :mad: In my psychology class we were talking about stress and today in another one of my classes we had a guy come in and talk all about stress and how to deal with it . Telling us that stress leads to people doing drugs/alcohol depression and alot of other crap and he's right . We did a little survey and i scored a 38....thats 2 times above avg with other people my age and gender and shit ....and everyone else in the class was either in the 10- low 20s I think I"m really stressed!!!!!!!! Today at work I almost wigged on some customer that acted like an asshole to me . I was so frustrated at why people must be asses to me even though i haven't done a damn thing to them . I'll go ahead and explain my confrontation with this basturd , I'm a server at a rest and i was doing my own section on my side and this old FOCKER saids to me Wheres my food i've been waiting for a DAM !!! Hour and ....i was thinking to myself do i make a big secene here in front of all these other people and flip completely out on this guy and kick his ass for yelling at me for no damn reason ...... So i decided to wait for him to leave follow him outside and confront him and tell him #1 I dont appreciate him asking me where his DAM food was b/c i'm not serving him second I'm only doing my job and no one elses and he has no right to talk to me like that and when i was talking to him I had this rush going through my body b/c my hands where shaking when i was telling him WTF was up ! He Very quickly said i'm sorry i'm sorry .......OOOOHHHH i was so pissed all the built up stress from this whole damn month was all about to come out at this moment . Then i said ok fine shook his hand and walked back in .......STRESS ...PEOPLE .... PISS ME THE F%@! OFF :mad:

Originally posted by gdalton
I hate the little punk be-itchs that won't let you over when you are trying to make an exit or a turn, like it's realy going to hurt them to slow down for half a second to let you over and worse then that are those bastards that pull out into the middle of an intersection with a line of traffic in front of them and no were to go and then your light turns green but you can't go anywhere because bubba in his 15 inch lifted 76 bronco is blocking the intersection. Sometimes it makes me want to put huge steal bumbers all around my car and just start making my own way through traffic.

I've decided that since I live in the Steel City I'm going to invest in I-beams to make as my front and rear bumpers... then Imma gonna F*ck some people's cars up. :devil: Like all those morons who can't manage to let you into the lane!!!

i'm usually pretty good.. but i have days where even the smallest little thing will piss the hell outta me
Usually just when i get home, sometimes my mom doesn't do anything bad but i still get pissed at her for the dumbest things..... meh

I think the biggest thing is if i bang my leg on something (like a chair) then i get so pissed i just start swearing, fuckin chair, ARGH!! and i get all mad then proceed on destroying the chair :D :D

Originally posted by gang$tarr
i'm usually pretty good.. but i have days where even the smallest little thing will piss the hell outta me
Usually just when i get home, sometimes my mom doesn't do anything bad but i still get pissed at her for the dumbest things..... meh

I think the biggest thing is if i bang my leg on something (like a chair) then i get so pissed i just start swearing, fuckin chair, ARGH!! and i get all mad then proceed on destroying the chair :D :D


Thats anger management for ya:D

Originally posted by SkYLiNeFrEaK



Thats anger management for ya:D

LOL
that's the only thing though, when i bang something.. then i get mad at whatever i hit. Even though it's my fault i'm like, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU THERE!!! GETTING IN MY WAY! %^*&#@^#*&@#(!&#@$)
talkin to furniture, i think i'm goin crazy :bloated:

Originally posted by gang$tarr
I think the biggest thing is if i bang my leg on something (like a chair) then i get so pissed i just start swearing, fuckin chair, ARGH!! and i get all mad then proceed on destroying the chair :D :D

LOL!! :D:D:D:D

I'm the exact same, I'll bang my leg on a chair, then start yelling at swearing at the damn chair then throw it across the room :D:D

I don't think that's stress though, just revenge :D

Originally posted by Heep


LOL!! :D:D:D:D

I'm the exact same, I'll bang my leg on a chair, then start yelling at swearing at the damn chair then throw it across the room :D:D

I don't think that's stress though, just revenge :D


Worst stress I've relieved, banged my head against to much. Bad idea, but for some reason, it makes me laugh.

I've walked into doorways, my head all the sudden goes in one direction, and BAM.

I sometimes get stressed out, but it tends to take a fair bit to get me there! If I was any LESS stressed at the moment I'd be asleep. Boss is away and I've got no work to do. VERY BORED!!!!!

Originally posted by FTO Girl
If I was any LESS stressed at the moment I'd be asleep.

Sounds like you've been :bonghitte :bonghitte

:D :D lol

I am an emotional person, but I stay usually calm with little sign of stress.

Originally posted by saturntangerine


I've decided that since I live in the Steel City I'm going to invest in I-beams to make as my front and rear bumpers... then Imma gonna F*ck some people's cars up. :devil: Like all those morons who can't manage to let you into the lane!!!

aw screw the I beams i want a 20mm minigun in the left fender well so no mater if its a geo or a kenworth i will always win :devil:

as for stress it usaly starts at 8:00 when the first litle coment by my service manager just makes me want to drag him behind the olds for 20 miles,and laste all day untill about 530 when i get to school and no longer have to deal with any ones shit! plus i can always take a nice relaxing nap in suspenson class :D