How do you deal with stress/anxiety?

**Todash** · July 23rd, 2008

I'm curious to know how we deal with stress and anxiety. How do you cope, both with the daily grind-you-downs and the breakthrough bubble-ups? Any little rituals you have? Medication? Rituals involving medication?

**Sundrop** · July 23rd, 2008

One word--ZOLOFT

**mstay** · July 23rd, 2008

Prayer and chocolate. Seriously!

**BlackEye** · July 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by Todash

I'm curious to know how we deal with stress and anxiety. How do you cope, both with the daily grind-you-downs and the breakthrough bubble-ups? Any little rituals you have? Medication? Rituals involving medication?

Beer and smokes.

**Spideyman** · July 23rd, 2008

Chocolate, ice cream, reading the SKMB, and meditation.

**Charms7** · July 23rd, 2008

Rituals involving eating sweets, buying lots of Lottery tickets and beating the crap out of my pillow. But what works best is Prayer.

**interplanetjanet** · July 23rd, 2008

I retreat into a fiction book!!!It's really true.

Oh yeah and a glass of wine at night.

**Peanut Queen** · July 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by BlackEye

Beer and smokes.

Me too...although sometimes I substitute Captain Morgans Spiced Rum instead of beer.

**Shasta** · July 23rd, 2008

Yoga and cigarettes. (I know, I know.)

**La Belladonna** · July 23rd, 2008

I eat quick snack-type goodies. Like chips, pretzels, cookies, etc... I need instant gratification when I'm upset so I don't want anything that needs prepared in order to consume it. If possible, I sleep. Reading a good book also helps.

I'll have a couple of beers or glasses of wine just to take the edge off and wash the snacks down, but I usually do my heavy duty "let's get buzzed/wasted/crazy/pissed" drinking when I'm in a good mood. Go figure.