How do you deal with stress?

I guess I am also getting more anxious because I can't get the things that should get done accomplished either.  And right now, I am stressed about being stressed if you know what I mean.  I am feeling a bit stranded because I do not have a therapist I can confide it at the moment.  I just have been too overwhelmed to look for another one.  It takes more energy than I can handle.

I was doing all right, then all the sudden nothing makes sense anymore.  That's where I am at, to say the least.  Thank you for letting me vent, and maybe someone out there has something to share.

i love you!     you can talk yourself into and out of almost anything - and do!

my cyber-sister, in the end the only thing we can control in our lives is how we feel.  us fortunate ones with mental illness may need some meds to balance some chemical imballanes - but in the end, it is always our choice.

let's say you were flying in an airplane at 20,000 feet and all of a sudden the plane banks and you fall out. without a parachute.  you have two choices.  you can curse the pilot and the plane and your mother and father and your siblings and god.  OR you could turn around and view the most beautiful sunset you will ever see and get engrossed in the differing greens of  the foliage below and the beauty of the blueness of the river below - and you could do this fo the rest of your life.  i submit that these are the choices all of us have made since we fell out of our mother's womb.

warren

I guess for a short while, I was confused  about where my life was heading.  I  panicked about it, and fealt like it wasn't going anywhere.  Plus, I just recently lost my car (in a wreck), lost both my therapist and psychiatrist, had to move back home after 5 years of being away (i'm 27), can't work or finish school (only 6 classes left) .  It all happened so fast, and pretty much within 2 weeks of each other, that something had to give.

I am okay now, I have made a few changes to adjust to the new life, and I feel better already.  I have not had a chance to look for a new therapist or pdoc because I have not made the time or effort, but I think there is no time life the present.

Plus, I discovered recently that I have control issues, if things don't work out I get very angry .   I am learning that I can only control a small % of what happens in my life.  I can try/and control what I say or do, and that is it.  Anything that is outside of me, is outside of my control.  It was and still is a little hard to accept, but that's the way life goes.

I am suppost to meet with my former therapist to try to find a new one tomorrow, I'll let you know how it goes.