Meeting a nice stranger

Imagine this scenario: you have just finished shopping and your hands are filled with groceries. You move to the door to leave but it isn’t an automatic door, you have open it yourself, which means somehow awkwardly repositioning everything you are holding to free a hand or put down all of your stuff, open the …

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Games that calm you down: flower reaction

By Pascalou petit (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons This isn’t going to be a very long post like most of the others I make and I would like to apologise for that. The thing is that, as great as it is, there isn’t much to say about this game. So …

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My experience with too much fludac/prozac

By Sander van der Wel from Netherlands ([281/365] Hot chocolate) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons If you guys read my first post or the about page of this blog, you’ll know that I have a psychological problem called OCD. Without going into too much detail I basically get a lot of intrusive thoughts which …

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Foods that reduce stress: Black Tea

By patrick george from cochin, india (liquid gold) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons I remember when I was a kid, my parents loved to have a nice cup of tea after a long day of hard work, or if they generally upset about something. At the time I thought they just liked tea a …

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Rage Room

This is something strange that I came across while I was looking up ways to deal with stress and anxiety, they are called rage rooms. By Jessica Flavin from London area, England (Anger Controlls Him) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons I wrote about escape rooms in one of my previous posts, did any of you …

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Try this: Prank It Forward

Ever heard of the concept of paying it forward? It is an expression which means that when someone does something good for you, you do something good for somebody else instead of just repaying the person who did the good deed for you. There was even a movie based on the concept.       …

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Hobbies that calm you down: Stamp Collecting/philately

By Heptagon (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons This is one of the oldest and most well-known types of hobbies that I know of. When I say oldest I don’t mean that stamp collecting is an age old hobby that people have been practicing since the dawn of time, I mean …

On October 10, 2017September 24, 2017 By avinexnesIn Hobbies that calm you down, Recent Posts1 Comment

Stressful habits: Doing everything by yourself

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In life, no matter who you are and no matter how much you do or get done, there will always be more work that needs to be done. Sometimes there is a lot of work to do and sometimes not so much, but no matter how much …

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Food that adds to stress: Alcohol

By Will Shenton (https://bevvy.co/cocktail/bees-knees/visy) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons For better or for worse alcohol is a part of life, people have been drinking it in one form or another for hundreds of thousands of years and almost every country has its own special version of an alcoholic drink; Russia has vodka, Japan has …

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