How does your stress / anxiety show? How do you cope with it?

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Headache and shoulder pain. Cope with music, painkillers and trying to remember I was better few hours ago, and will be better again soon

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So are you dear friend

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Clench my teeth, esp while sleeping. Get shaky esp if also too much caffeine. Lose blood in my hands. Feel mentally scatterbrained

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I don’t. I am insane.

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Manifest with stomach aches and bloating

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EFT (tapping) throughout the day has been amazing for me. And then when I get home, I lay on the couch for 15-20 min just doing guided breathing exercises to calm my nervous system down.

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How do you do EFT?

Amongst many other things, I ignore texts from friends and then get scared to respond because “it’s been too long and they probably hate me now”.

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I break out in hives. No joke. I cope by applying cortisone and drinking coffee

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I have an answer but it’s suitable for DM or confessions bowl 😬

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‘Don’t worry be happy’

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Chew my finger nails and cheeks

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How does it show? That’s my entire personality

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I eat…a lot

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Overeating, weighted blanket, spend 30 min laying paralyzed with fear.

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Migraines

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I pull my hair out strand by strand, and fixate unnecessarily on relatively small but analyzable decisions. I've not found a solution.

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I tell myself no matter how bad I do, I’d never lose my job. There’s nobody on the bench to backfill me.

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