Topic : Coping with Stress

As a single mother of 4 adult children, I remember working 3 jobs when they were growing up.  I also remember watching my health on the decline.  But still that inner voice said the children came first.  Then the depression, panic attacks and tears came, right along with the low energy.

Years of meds made things worse.  I met a young lady at my gym who wound up saving my life and changed the course for many with what she taught me.  She became my colon hydrotherapist.  I had never heard of colonics before .  It's not a medical procedure ,but a way of cleaning your colon out with water.  It is a part of my life now and you will not find one med in my home.  Not even aspirin.  I find that drugs are not the answer for my liver.  Toxic relationships had to be let go for the better as emotional vampires can kill the spirit.  And from then on it was about self preservation and that included finding the right job for me.  So sad is our society now that we are the walking emotional wounded.  But I am a testimony that we can take those bandaids off and heal ourselves with the right tools.  However, it starts from within our hearts and our 4 walls at home..

i like doing this too, also pilates, i sweat out my stresses, lol.

those and chocolate, lots of it.

if i can lock myself away in my room for a while, i usually can calm down, sometimes mediatation helps.  but it can be hard to find the time

I'm a nurse and in 2005 I was injured "on the job", I hurt my knee and since then I have had 5 knee surgeries, two of which have been total knee replacements.  After the first one I got a staph infection that the doctor let go for 4 months without aggressive treatment.  I found another surgeon (a GREAT one), my knee was taken out in July, '06 and left out until September '06 and I now have a new knee with no infection!  I was on IV antibiotics for seven weeks twice daily at home and unable to walk.  I thank God he has seen me through all that he has.  I am stressed over my job, I was fired due to inability to work through all this.  I will soon (hopefully) be able to return to some sort of nursing and at 48 yrs old dread getting back out there looking for a new job.  I don't sit around in self pity, I just can't believe the place I was injured is the very place I was fired from.  I was hurt trying to help a confused and combative eldery patient from hurting herself and in turn I was hurt myself.  Anyway, STRESS it's a bummer!!    

I have been stuck in Canada for a little over a year with my American husband. I am not allowed to cross the border without proof of residency and proof of job.  Then in April when my parents moved back to Canada from the states my Dad got really sick and I thought he wasn't going to make it.  It's been a very stressful time in my life and I have such a wonderful husband he is always supportive but I seem to be blowing up at him all the time lately. Is there anything I could do to relieve some stress in my life

Hello,

I'm new to this board, so please forgive me any weirdities or silly questions. I am a twenty year old undergraduate university student from the Netherlands. I get top grades, but at times all this stupid studying is taking a little too much. Last year I burned out, had symptoms of a stress/ anxiety disorder, including panic attacks and a depression (i.e. the niceties of life). I am doing really very good right now, but the memory is still hunting me at times. Just to give you an idea, the coming 4 weeks I will have to write 4 papers of about 3000 words, give a presentation, finish two topic proposals for two different theses (that will be two huge papers of some 10.000 words each, to be written around Christmas and one next semester), take two take-home tests and one in class test. My grandfather passed away just two months ago and my best friend dropped out of uni due to a burn out. Oh, I almost forgot, I need to start working on those applications for graduate study and then I did not even mention the regular readings yet. I know I pull myself through each and every time again... but it seems to be getting worse each and every time... How can I convince myself I am going to make it through? I know I can, I'm just not convinced (how weird that might sound). Right now I just wish I had some time to do nothing!!! Just watch some stupid tv programmes (I love cartoons!). :-)

Anyway, I am sorry, I do not mean to be whining. My life is nice, I know what I want and how I want it, and I have a fair confidence that I am going to succeed. Basically I live a lovely life, only I should have double the time to live it. ;-) Could anyone give me some advice on how I can see the upcoming 4 weeks a little less like an insurmountable mount everest?

Apologies for the long message!

Hope to get to know some of you a little, and best wishes,

Hoppe

Living with cancer and the stress it puts on all of us, I am a single mother 40 years old with a son of 8, Since the age of 16 I have volenteered my time for the needy, I was misdiognosed for my illness going every month to the doctor knowing something was wrong and he kept saying no you will be all right, well 3 years later i have cancer which spread to the liver and pelvis,, I have paid all my taxes paid into a plan if i get sick i will be covered wow what a surprise i have been through hell they never call back tell me go on social aid , my next meal i do not know where it will come, I helped cancer children , elderly patients , battered women, and poor which my son and i delivered food and christmas , this year my tree is empty my next meal for us i do not know, stress will not help me in my chemo, but my advise god gave me a beautiful son, i cry at night not knowing what to do how to heat, because in canada it gets -30degrees ice has entered my room no government to help me they just do not know when,, what i do for my stress i take out old music and play it , i light the house in candels for warmth, and i pray , pray, I talk aloud and say god help me, so then i can get back to help others, I breath slowly, shut my eyes and hear silence, hold a hot cup of tea in my hands and imagine that warmth on my face, and i relax holding my little boys hand with such innonence in his eyes and pray together and look at others in war countries or the solders in war with just babies now they didn't have the chance i have still to fight even though my diognose is less then 35% of survival, breath smile, and remember your happiest days ever a hot soup touching your lips to keep you warm, stress will leave you and a smile will become you