How Stressful Is Your Job? How Stressful Is Your Life? (choice)

[jacquie4000]

How Stressful Is Your Job?

How Stressful Is Your Life?

Does The Stress From Your Job Lead Into The Stress In Your Life?

What Is Your Outlet?

Do You Even Have One?

[ChrisP]

Originally Posted by jacquie4000

How Stressful Is Your Job?

Not very.

How Stressful Is Your Life?

Very

Doe The Stress From Your Job Lead Into The Stress In Your Life?

No

What Is Your Outlet?

Music

Do You Even Have One?

Not really.

[jacquie4000]

So your job is not strssful but you feel your life is can you explain why?

Music is your outlet...So you don't really have a life or an outlet maybe I did not make that clear.........Sorry

[michel]

Originally Posted by jacquie4000

How Stressful Is Your Job?

I don't have one.

How Stressful Is Your Life?

Dreadfully stressful

What Is Your Outlet?

being a hermit, and being on my computer as much as possible.

I was retired on grounds of stress (back in '93). I went to see my doctor as I do each month, and, as it happened, my wife needed to see him as well; we went in together.

For once the doctor was focussing on my wife and telling her to listen to my advice; his weords were something like "Michel is an expert at anything to do with psychology, stress, anxiety - he knows it all, listen to him"

To which my wife (obviously) asked him "well, why is he sitting next to me having a panic attack, and takes loads of medication, and has problems in everyday life ?"

"Because he has found a way of coping with chronic depression and stress" , he answered, "If it wasn't for his amazing coping stratehgies, he would be at St Ann's (the local psychiactric hospital).

I was astounded! - of course, he never tells me what he thinks of how I am coping; it gave me a bit of a fright - to think I am permanently "on the brink"....

Stress is a bit like a metal spring; you can push it (or pull ir) our of shape so far, and it will go back to its original shape; if you pull too hard, or crush it too hard, it "looses it's memory" of it's original shape. I guess that's the best way to describe how stress has affected me. I am so pathetically scared to death by the smallest and silliest incidents. Oh well, at least the doc paid me a compliment!

[jacquie4000]

I was retired on grounds of stress (back in '93). I went to see my doctor as I do each month, and, as it happened, my wife needed to see him as well; we went in together.

When did life so to say start stressing you out? Was it since your were a child? Or did it happen later in life? If I may ask of course I am just curious.

[PureX]

My job now days is not stressful at all. I do maintenance part time for a small machine shop.

My previous job tended to be sometimes very stressful. I managed a crating shop for a large fine art handling company in Chicago.

My life is not very stressful because I've eliminated many of the things that created stress for me. I was a raging alcoholic for many years, and part of my recovering from that meant having to completely change the way I thought, and lived. It was a long and difficult path, but I am really a different person these days, and I not only have eliminated most of the thoughts and behaviors that caused me stress, I have developed a habit of keeping them away from me. So my life is quiet and peaceful and I'm grateful for that.

My job is a part of my life. I don't keep them seperated in my mind. And I would act to eliminate stress in either case, as quickly as I were able to recognize it's source.

If I were to feel stressed, I would immediately try to eliminate it at it's source. And if this is not possible, I can relieve stress by doing things that I really enjoy: listening to music, designing boats, walking in the woods, things like that.

A lot of stress, however, is a state of mind. It can simply be let go of by choosing to do so. Sometimes we have to practice at making this choice, a little, to make the choice "stick", but really, stress is mostly something we allow to happen within our own selves.

[jacquie4000]

So many of us have alot of stress in our job or our life or both....Sometimes it is hard to find the balance to make life work. I am very interested in everyone's opinions to how they have delt with it or what is the solution.

[jacquie4000]

My previous job tended to be sometimes very stressful. I managed a crating shop for a large fine art handling company in Chicago.

So did you change you job to relieve stress? But when you changed jobs...was it less pay so therefore created another form of stress? Or was it workable less stress but less pay yet I could still get by in my life .....which was worth the lack of stress?