find better ways to cope with being down/stressed/tired

I have bronchitis. Argh. This is not a better way to cope (^{pushing myself off cliffs of stress and pressure all the time until my body just gives in}). At all. Another two weeks of antibiotics, here I come. A new course of drugs every month is definitively not the answer.

So far my only solution for feeling any of the above is a good nights sleep. Oh and talking things over with a close friend. Watching comedy dvds… okay so I have a couple but sometimes they don’t work as well.

Does anyone else have any good ways of coping?

Again, I’m not sure how to go about this but it seems like a very good idea.
I was hit with some bad news recently and its really wiped me out, I need to cheer up and find some energy.

I have been sat here feeling like a total troll. I just came on, I am so tired I could just lay down on the office floor, I feel achy and crampy and cranky and bloated and ick all over. I’ve had 5 leftover mini eggs. This is seriously the worst mood I’ve had for weeks and look: no binging! So I was right to mark this goal done…

to subsume this into the “take care of myself and get attuned to my needs” goal. I have learnt so much about what makes me tick and am getting better at juggling blues/stress/exhaustion without resorting to food. Yay.

Ever since I restructured my daily goals to factor self-appreciation, taking care of myself and giving myself room to breathe into my daily routine, I feel like I’ve finally started getting to grips with this goal. Still at the baby-steps stage but I am much more likely now to figure in some kind of analysis of whether I:

• need more sleep
• need a night off
• need a lie in
• am demonstratively taking care of myself
• need to vent
• need to treat myself
• need to just give myself a break

into my options for dealing with blue and stressful days. There are a million ways to care for myself besides seeking out the nearest supply of chocolate or gooey carbs, and I am just starting to realise how many avenues there are to making myself feel better.

Now I just need to practice, and expand my repertoire!!

I get to this point, where I’ve had the most rockingest three or four days and been doing everything I can think of and totally on a high and then… I just get exhausted!! It is frustrating because mentally I am still buzzing from the vibe that’s been building but I also am aware that I can’t hold the pace much longer and I need a time out.

Time-outs are fine, but boring when life has been a veritable mars bar. Need to find something calm to do tonight.

stresses me out. Forget being a tourist in my own city, most of the time I hate the place, and the people. It’s so bloody stressful.

I have come up with two cures for this:
1) run away – just get out of London more, which I definitely plan on doing
2) make an effort to notice the unstressful things at least as much as the stressful ones. People who let other people through instead of barging right through them. People who smile. Children at play. That sort of thing.

I’m going to try both and see if it helps.

is accepting that some sadnesses never dissipate completely. some hurts always remain, engrained in who we are, forming the basis for fears and insecurities that become part of our personality and that we end up learning to live our lives around, or in spite of.

I do not resent my little lingering sadnesses. I know there is a lot more to life, and I don’t mind letting them have a little of my time and space sometimes, time and space for tears. I feel strangely comfortable with my melancholy sometimes. Sometimes it almost makes me content. I wouldn’t be without it.

and clearing a stress-less space around them, seems to be one logical way of dealing with pressure before it builds up. Trying to spot in advance which days will be busy, which days I have tasks I find stressful, even what point in their respective cycles my relationships are in. Working out before I get there different ways I might respond to the stress that arises and at least being able to recognise that there are other, less stressful periods at the other side.