How can I channel less stress?

[loveoutloud]

I am crazy stressed out right now, and it is showing negative functional concequences in my dail life....my face is breaking out REAALLY BADDDD (i look like a peperoni pizza), it is interfering with my abilty to sleep and is impacting my academic and clinical performance.

My teacher pretty much told me I need to chill out, but I can't. When I try to relax, all I can think about is how I am wasting time, and how much I am going to fail on whatever pressing matter i am avoiding.

Do I need a councellor or something?

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

sounds like a good idea. if'n you had a patient tell you the same story, wouldn't you recommend counseling?

getting professional counseling help is no different from seeing an orthopod if you've had a really bad sprain or a dentist for a toothache. on the plus side, when you've taken advantage of the help they offer, you'll be in a better position to recommend it to a patient who needs it. you will not say, "i had to do this once when i..." because the patient doesn't need to hear that, because it's not about you at that point. but you can say, "many of the people i've seen in my practice (and just between you, me, and the an, that includes your coworkers) have had great experiences with the right counselor. you'd see a dentist if you had a toothache, right? let me see if i can help you identify one."

[Mentalageis16]

1. talk with someone about your stress

2. take some Asian herbal teas (relaxation & cures pimple!)

3. drink some coffee (3 cups a day, coffee is pure liquid lol and study have shown that ppl who drink more coffee have less of a chance to develop depression)

4. how about exercise? if you don't like jogging, you can swim (good for joints)

5. have a little notepad and write everything makes you feel stressful, make a T table, list the bad stress on one side and good stress on another, compare the two, and see what you could eliminate easily or turn some bas stress into good.

6. some ppl eat foods to make themselves more comfortable, but it's actually not good, a lot ppl are like over 180 lbs. and that's obese. try to stay fit, and socialize more with friends, it will draw your mind away from stress once you feel good about yourself.

7. eat mints or minty food, it could calm you down, physiologically.

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

I live with a lot of stress as do we all, but I internalize mine and pretty much live in agony, lol. I can't help but laught at it. I always thought it was funny until my mental health teacher told me it was an inappropriate emotional reaction. Oh, well. I promise you can survive. Oddly enough, school work isn't what bothers me.