By Picture taken by Justin McIntosh, [CC BY 2.0 or CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons My life has been such that I have had to move house a few times, not a lot but still enough to know how stressful it is. The thing about moving is that it’s not just one big event/task …
Tag: Stressful habits
Stop comparing yourself
See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons There are a lot of things in this world that can get you down, make you feel depressed, stressed out, anxious and generally not good enough. But nothing hits harder and faster than what you do to yourself, because all in all you know yourself the …
Try This: Baoding balls
By Petey21 (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons In this post we are going to explore non-traditional eastern medicine like the post about acupressure that I put up before (put link here). This time we are going to be talking about Baoding balls. Baoding balls – also called Chinese Therapy Balls, Chinese Health Balls, Chinese …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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