Learn to deal with stress

I’ve always been the worrier in the family. I’m not sure why, but I stress over the smallest of things. Especially when it comes to work, I get headaches, I get upset, my vision gets blurry. I’m sure there are tons of different things I can do. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

It feels like sometimes it will never end. I had to go on Nexium for stomach issues secondary to stress about 2 years ago and I feel like I’m heading down the same path again. I just can’t figure out what to do with this one. It’s really putting a damper on my life. I just worry about everything and I can’t handle it anymore. I just want some peace in my brain. To not care what people think of me is the biggest part of this. At work, I wonder if people think I’m not doing a good enough job and at home I wonder if my fiancee’s parents approve of me. Why should I even care though? It’s my life and my happiness. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks of it.

I have never been able to handle stress. I do what I like to call “come unglued” when certain levels of stress enter my life. Currently, my most major source of sress revolves around my job/money issues. Obviously, I have to work so I have been just trying to deal with this type of stress on a day to day basis. Money is the answer to the work stress but then carries on a life all it’s own in regards to debt and living expenses. I feel fortunate that I have a job that can pay my bills and still allows me to live comfortably because I realize that not everyone is so lucky. Some peple work two jobs and still aren’t able to make ends meet. I guess I just need to learn to leave work at work and not worry about it on my days off and my quiet time when I’m not there. This will be hard though because I’m a perfectionist and I worry about things that I might of done wrong or things that I couldn’t do to the best of my ability because I was rushed through it due to time constraints. Sigh. I really need help with this one.