Jack off. Yup, that simple.

I watch TV. I play video games, I draw traditionally.

Green tea.

I eat candy.

I do chocolate under high stress where I'm not sure if I'm about to fall into a panic x___x

Chocolate is a fairly decent mood stabilizer sometimes.

Depends on the level of stress. First, I acknowledge that whatever is causing me stress isn't going away on its own. Next, I decide whether or not I can simply give up on it and, if not, assemble a plan for fixing whatever it is. I also take careful note of what brought on the stress, and how I can avoid or lessen it if I ever go through it again.

I don't always deal with stress that well. Whenever I can, I turn to my music playlists and put on something I really enjoy. Few things speak to this bird the way my favourite musicians do, so it tends to do well to distract me or even better my mood.

Not to sound like a creeper but masterbation helps .-. or angry sex. OR violent video games! OR vent art but ... art needs the right kind of stress

I dont cope well with stress at all and one of my main methods its to advoid/ignore the problem. Its a bad way to deal with stress and has put me in a lot of debt and made me lose my jobs. I given in pretty easily to escapeing from that stress by advoiding, weather its social, work, life stress ect..

One of my best methods for my stress is to face it and to talk through it. I actually have a book about stress to help me work through it because I'm a logical person and prefer the rational route.

I have to work on not avoiding things and to stop tripping up on the small stuff. What happens happens.

Kick boxing, eat a shit ton of carbs, yell at my boyfriend a little about everything I'm stressed about, then a good 45 minutes of sex and hour of cuddles. In that order! XD

Truly when I stress I read or listen to music that corresponds to the level and type of stress. Hard industrial like for really stressful times, music like Dead Can Dance for everyday stress relief. Close eyes and make the world disappear. When things get at its worst I look into my kitt's smiling face and know everything will be ok.

cuddle my dogs, or cuddle my mate, or work it out with kung fu

I go out for a walk in the evening while listening to music on my iPod.

I move my furniture around and generally do deep cleaning.

Unless the mess in my house is what's causing the stress. Then I just cry...

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Depends on the type of stress. For overwhelmed types of stress, lying down in bed in the dark with my Ipod does wonders. Baths by candlelight/music and a beer work too.

For the type of stress that also makes you angry (like losing work due to computer problems)-- FPS games and some tea. Nothing like going on a rampage to help make you feel better. XD

To be blunt, I never allow myself to become stressed. If you let anything get to you, it just makes you lose control of yourself and just makes your body a victim. Stress just makes your body more vulnerable to anything and everything, especially accelerated aging, so the best way to handle stress is to not let it get to you in the first place.

I'm currently in the process of breaking my Manager from his Stress and he's finally beginning to let go. His Stress was so bad that he was maintaining constant chest pains, suffered having a continuous shortness of breath and just a repetitive flow of issues due to the new responsibility slapped on him because of his disposition.

I don't, I allow it to mold me into a being more sharp and creative. I'm stressed because an artist is better than me? I mold into into a motivation to become better than that artist.

Alcohol or shooting (never together) or video games. Or just sex.

I deal with stress by FLIPPING THE F OUT

This might only be a solution to you if you're willing to risk attaining it.

But I smoke marijuana to relax or to get creative. I get very anxious when I'm out'n alone.

I counteract the stress with a deep but hidden hate and loathing for the world in general. I will not let it win.

I normally try to go to sleep when I'm feeling either stressed or anxious.

Ice cream and lavender bath's

I usually take a break, listening music and playing with my rats. Watching movie and playing games also helps a lot :)

I talk it out with friends, cry, take meds for it lol

My husband smokes when he stresses so he's an idiot. You should try to replace a destructive behavior with a good behavior, like I do a 10-30min work out depending on my level of stress. Kickboxing is a goooood one for when your pissed off about something ^_-

And 10 mins of excersise could be jumping rope, jumping jac's, quick jog, some simple push-ups, just something to get your heart racing for a few mins. Let the adrenalin burn off the stress.

i simply avoid it like that plague that to me it is.
i'm not entirely suggesting this to anyone else. i've deliberately gone without whatever it would take going without in order to do so.
yes i have gone so far as to go homeless to avoid it.
so like i say, i'm not recommending my approach, but i do believe this, we do not have to tolerate the causes of stress to live in a world with all of the freedoms and all of the infrastructure and all of it respectful of and harmonious with a healthy natural environment in order to do so.

every cause of stress, and every far greater inequity, exist only because people refuse, are often conned into refusing, by beliefs, ideologies, and self serving economic concerns, to seek an understanding of what incentives are created statistically by our priorities.

everyone is different. finding the least stressful way to live for yourself as an individual is a unique personal challenge for all of us.

and i have to admit, there may even be some things worth more then avoiding it entirely.

but we can still look for ways to avoid adding to the levels of stress that are imposed on everyone.

there are no magical ideologies, beliefs or anything else, but we can boycott aggressiveness.

and again we can look for ways, by considering our priorities and choosing them accordingly, to avoid statistically contributing to the incentives, that motivate the policies, that create the situations, that are stressful and worse.

we can stop regarding automobiles, money, ostentation and excitement, as if they were some kind of gods, and stop worshiping them.

ultimately most causes of stress are indirect like that. the exception being the romanticizing and rewarding of aggressiveness which generate stress directly and almost directly by the inequities doing so cause to exist.

one thing i would never advise anyone, is to treat a symptom but ignore its cause.

these root causes are not inevitable, and neither is telling ourselves the lie that they are.

Well I work around 75hrs a week. Own a house. Deal with bills. New car payment. Insurance. And still have hobbies on the side so stress is always there. My thing is I drink. A lot xD and always keep a positive attitude. Fuck it. Everything will work itself out. ^v^ I'm always happy xD

I go for long walks, curl up with a fantasy/sci-fi book or podcast, vanish into Second Life for awhile, or start cooking and doing dishes, and I have NO clue why that last one would help, but it does.

Well, I was going to say that I simply don't have stress.
But after looking at that link in your journal, I realize that I literally already do 14/16 things. I'm truly baffled.

Anna:

If it's school/college: I don't care, I pretend it's not a big deal to fail a test and I keep saying to myself: worrying never helps.
If it's possible, my strategy is avoiding the stressful situations - unless it's impossible.

I go into all out cleaning mode and start using that energy towards doing something I can do such as clean the house. Often if I can't do that I have to find something to distract me and forget about what happened until time has passed and I'm able to do something about it.

I drink to take the edge off.

I'm also a worry-driven individual. If something worries me work-related, I put in overtime and work at it till I feel accomplished or something.
Otherwise my default state is chill.

Depends - In University I would have a small cry to my mom over the phone for about 15 minutes and then lay around for about 3 hours doing nothing. That's all the time I could afford with 120 hours of work to do every week to get by in the theatre design courses I was in. Followed by eating almost nothing but skittles while burning my fingertips off making a scale full color model of a set design. It was a horrendous 3 years let me tell you. (As this happened about every 2 weeks as there was no way for me to get ahead with work until about the last two months of every term as they were always reserved for final projects and there was not teaching during the classes at that point or new assignments every two days) So I stressed less during finals than the rest of the year... stupid.

I really don't have that much massive stress anymore, most of it can be dealt with going to the convenience store buying a 2L of cola a baggie of 5 cent candies and as much chocolate as I can afford and all nighting it while destroying my chances of not developing diabetes. Of course once stress is handled and back to even keel I tend to reward myself with a week long homemade veg/fruit juice detox. (And I actually enjoy said detoxes)

Dance :)

Explosions.
O.o not really XD when im stessed I sleep and its gone. Im odd and uber carefree like that.

Stress comes in a lot of forms, so what you do tends to depend on what sort of stressor and reaction to it that you're having.

If you're having a panic attack, find somewhere quiet to sit pronto. Put your knees up, put your head between your knees, and cup your hands around the back of your neck. Deep breaths, eyes closed. You should feel better after a few minutes.

If you feel you have too much to do, write a list of things you have to do and how much time you have to do each of them. Breaking it into little pieces helps you to realize that there's likely actually not as much as you had thought there was. Write out a schedule of when you're going to do things and give yourself a few hours more for each thing than you think you'll need. If you don't think you'll have enough time to complete all of them, then pick out a few that aren't vital and tell yourself that it's okay that you don't do your absolute best on them and knock them out last. Make sure that you actually are okay with your decisions because regret is terrible.

Other types have other solutions. c:

wel normaly i would play my video game system my ps3 or ps2 but i cant find my controler to my 3 and i lent my ps2 to my sister to watch dvds on so right now ive got nothing.

I usually break away from whatever that's causing the stress and vent. I could either be playing a video game, catching up on my favorite TV series, a visit to the library, or just going out for a walk. Giving yourself some time is a way of helping reduce stress I suppose.