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Stress, anxiety, and other issues...

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Stress, anxiety, and other issues...

-Or- Shit that people have to put up with.

from JoeUser Forums
Stress...it comes in many forms. Anxiety, frustration, anger...just to name a few. This time of the year appears very stressful, especially for highschoolers, with prom and exams and worrying about grades. I know I'm a bit frazzled lately...and many other people seem to be as well.

I am currently learning about stress and the like in my Psychology class...and the thing that is creepy about that is I am applying it to real life. Around me I observe so much drama and other stressors. Prom is coming up and as you know, hormones get to actin' up...especially during spring. A certain friend of mine has a blessing and a curse...girls swarm him like white on rice. He doesn't like it...and while he tries to have a decent friendship with all of them, they are at eachother's throats all the time. Girls, can't live with them, can't be straight without them. My poor little friend here has asked one of them to prom...and of course the reprocussions have started not 24hrs after the fact. I know of two girls who are quite agitated to the prospect and I advise them to chill, it's his life and if your paths meet later in life, then you can see what happens. He doesn't need the stress...and I'm sure the girls don't need to put themselves through it.

Next on my agenda, coping with stress and anxiety. As our stress rises and when bad things happen we need someone to open up to. Social support is what we like to call it. What I've seen around is a great heaping load of really, really bad support. What I mean by that is, even though your friends mean well...they don't quite know how to help you out of a sticky situation. When someone just boasts that they knew "it" all along or yell at their "friend" to quit bitching, that's not quite the support people are looking for. Here's something for you all to chew on...when you see someone stressed out, go and find out what's wrong with them, talk and most importantly listen...it's best not to try and beat some ideas into them, but just be there when they need you. Who knows, that may even save someone's life...depends on what kind of problem they've got. If you are someone who is having problems/stress/anxiety then find a good friend or two...even if you don't think they would be good at that kind of thing. (Let's just say in these past few months I've found that I've got a knack for helping people...or at least listening....so, if any of you guys/girls, that I know, have something on your mind, I'm there for you. :D )

Well...that's about it for this article.

See ya next time on.....The Wonderous Enigma that is my Mind!

~Zoo
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
he he he !!!! THouse were the most interesting 21 comments in row I have ever read! I choose not to be offended by the whole 21 of them being about how crazy and complicated women are(yet I don't have backup statements for any of them...) Men are simple. There. You miss out on all the stressfull, pointless, irrational parts of being alive.( You should feel incompetent and miserable by this)

I CAN"T WAIT FOR PROM!!!! YAY!!!

Peace out,
KINJRUH
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
Men are simple. There. You miss out on all the stressfull, pointless, irrational parts of being alive.( You should feel incompetent and miserable by this)


Yes we are simple...But we dont feel incompetent or miserable....he he he

Ns38
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yes we are simple...But we dont feel incompetent or miserable....he he he


Too simple to have such complex emotions as true misery or incompetence?
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Men are simple.


Well.....most of the time, yes. We can feel complex emotions...the only thing that makes us simple is that we say what we mean and want what we want. We don't use those weird little signals and codes that females have cooked up over the years. Men have a way of stating things very clearly. It's not that we can't experience emotions or thoughts....just that we can tell someone what we feel and mean it the way we said it.

Example.

"Hey, how's it going?"
"I'm fine."
"Alright....want to go to a strip club?"
"Sure."

You see, there's no secret messages in there, just a typical male conversation. (I threw in the strip club thing because "we think about sex all the time"...which is only partially true. )

~Zoo
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
If that was supposed to argue the goodness of the male psyche, ou came at it from a horrible angle....

I agree with shadesofgray...you are arterall, missing out on alot of the deepness and joy of being alive...and you don't even know it.

KINJRUH
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
We can feel complex emotions...the only thing that makes us simple is that we say what we mean and want what we want. We don't use those weird little signals and codes that females have cooked up over the years. Men have a way of stating things very clearly. It's not that we can't experience emotions or thoughts....just that we can tell someone what we feel and mean it the way we said it.


Bogus. Maybe you are very in touch with your feelings, but that's a fairly new thing--this metrosexual male who is able to discuss what he truly feels. Men are, for the most part, uncomfortable with emotion. They are taught from an early age that men don't cry and real men are strong.

So, men cover up their emotions better than women, but they don't always mean what they say--"fine" rarely means fine.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'd love to go back to the stress levels I had in highschool or college (with the knowledge I have now, of course)--my problems then seemed so minor compared to working about how to pay the bills,


See, I'd take it a step further, I want to go back to the problems of a toddler, like how to get around eating peas...
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
See, I'd take it a step further, I want to go back to the problems of a toddler, like how to get around eating peas...

*Simplicity in the mind of intricacy...

If only it were so...*sigh.

YOUR FRIEND,
KINJRUH
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
????....most of these comments have nothing to do with the article....

Ns38
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
If that was supposed to argue the goodness of the male psyche, ou came at it from a horrible angle....


Well, I tried to throw some humor in there. There's goodness in it, but you just have to know us to understand it....I suppose.

~Zoo
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
--"fine" rarely means fine.


Perhaps not the best example...but we usually say what we mean in the ways of what we want or what's going on in the world. Sure we cover up emotions....but there's no hidden agenda.

~Zoo