HR also told me after I got diagnosed with stress due to work. Then made a follow up meeting to see what I was doing on my spare time to reduce my stress.
Job searching, that’s what I was doing.
Get into a difficult romantic relationship, you’ll forget all about the societal doom
Sidebar I know SSRIs are helpful and at times lifesaving but goddamn the tradeoffs can take a toll on the people who love you. Prozac/Strattera is a hell of a combo. I miss my girlfriend.
God I hated straterra. That shit only ever did bad things for me.
Vomiting every day like clockwork and a high libido with no ability to achieve orgasm, but in return you get hyper focus that you can’t turn off cause the stuff never stops affecting you. Sure I missed my SO, but I missed my old self too. I guess it’s alright if you can’t be trusted with stimulants and really need the help but I’ll never take it again
They say that so they don’t have to figure out what’s actually wrong with you in the corporate-designated 15 minute appointment
That is a delightful link.
You can though. Leaving malevolent leftism behind can be a great first step to alleviate stress. You can still keep the good parts, the ones that are about making things better. Just drop the ones that make you hate everything.
That shit is just an energy vampire that does nothing to improve the world, it just makes you miserable.
Things like such and such just used your tax dollars to reduce an entire educational facility full of pupils to rubble…as you drive to work over a road full of potholes and have no mass transit so if your car gets screwed up you’re done. Specially if you’re living paycheck to paycheck.
How bout a prescription to stop doom scrolling. I feel like it’d take at least that to get my damn phone out of my hands.
I love Lemmy for that, you can’t doomscroll very much here.
I prescribe you to stop doom scrolling
HOLY SHIT I’M CURED
Bad news. My doom scroll is contagious
OH SHIT
and it’s spread by farts. what the hell dude
I was too far into lemmy/scrolling, but not like any TikTok/facebook/etc. I think I just got dopamine burnout. One o got antidepressants, it was so much better for my mental health.
I don’t think they mean “stop surviving”. They mean, if something extra would normally be extra stressful, like going to a friend’s wedding or hosting in laws for a week, tell them no. Or even just tell your boss “no” now and then. Say you can’t get that done in a week, refuse an unreasonable request here and there.
If you already are doing the bare minimum and still suffering stress… Wtf? Most people doing the bare minimum aren’t that stressed. The point is, you probably don’t know how to avoid stress, and saying no alone became stressful. You need to learn to avoid it.
People who let stress overtake their physical health have come into positions where they literally can’t conceive of the idea of “avoiding stress”. They’ve lived and breathed it. That’s the fucking problem, and your doctor isn’t going to fix that with a pill. You need to change how you live.
Most people doing the bare minimum are overwhelmed with the pressure of living paycheck to paycheck. Times are tough, especially when you do not have a financial fallback, are ill, and are making Min wage.
It’s more like whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen regardless of how you feel about it so you can stress or you can chill and whatever is gonna be is gonna be regardless.
My doctor said, go for a walk and get away from her.
I mean… You can. Just not for longer than 3 days or so before you die from dehydration. But hey! If you die, you no longer experience stress. 🤷♂️
