last night a DJ saved my life

sweetdaaddyy:

if you’re sad and you know it clap your hands👏🏼👏🏼

if you’re sad and you know it clap your hands👏🏼👏🏼

if you’re stressy and depressy and your life is kinda messy if you’re sad and you know it clap your hands 👏🏼👏🏼

Confession #3,707

chronic-confessions:

Having chronic conditions that are (at least in some part) triggered by stress are so difficult to talk about with folks who don’t have health conditions.

“What triggered your recent attack?” they’ll ask.

“Stress, probably.” I’ll say.

“You need to learn how to cope with stress.” they’ll advise.

“I am coping. But sitting in traffic can be stressful. Going to work is stressful. A deadline is stressful. Having an event coming up is stressful. Going to the movies or the museum is stressful!.”

But what is particularly difficult to articulate is that not all stress is necessarily bad stress. I enjoy working. I enjoy planning events. I used to thrive on that energy! I still do. But once the energy dwindles, once I no longer have adrenaline coursing through my body to make sure I hit my deadlines (which, btw I am very good at delegating and managing), instead of having a normal kind of tired slump for a day like many folks do, I’m miserable and in agony for a week afterwards.

“So take on a smaller load.” More sage advice.

There’s a point no one really talks about. A point where because of your condition you do less and less of the things you need to do or the things you want to do. Beyond a certain point you cease to BE and just become your condition. So I try very hard to balance my work and personal life and my condition. Knowing that too much in any direction will severely hinder my performance in the other.

But stress will always be unavoidable. All I can do is manage. Cope. And folks need to realize that “doing enough” is not just “doing the minimum.” It’s coping. It’s the new maximum. It’s the new me. It sucks, I know, believe me I’m living it. But doing things the way I do, even if I know a week later will be tougher than usual because of the letdown, is preferable and more manageable than the alternative of turning into a husk of myself.

Aquarius: Biggest Stress Trigger

thezodiaczone:

Though “live and let live” is your motto, Aquarius, you really like to have your way. You get frustrated when you can’t justify doing what you want without a good reason. Nor can you abide people who try to bend your will to theirs. Already high-strung, you become stressed by the pressures of time, and often feel there’s not enough of it. Yet ironically, by slowing down you’ll actually get more done and feel more relaxed.

stressandlove:

I can’t even begin to tell you how important it is to do things that you love, no matter what, for no one else but you. It’s made me realize I need to focus more on keeping myself healthy, it’s proven to me that I’m going to be somebody someday, and it’s made me feel like I can really be loved