<p>Title's self-evident.</p>
<p>Personally, I go through cycles of depressed, irrational thoughts which unfortunately seem very rational at the time.</p>
<p>I get pretty depressed</p>
<p>I shout a lot, get angry, and sometimes break things</p>
<p>Mediation and EAT HEALTHY.</p>
<p>I eat very healthy. I’m not sure how much meditation would work for me though.</p>
<p>Go outside and scream as loudly as you can until you feel better.</p>
<p>I’m just generally depressed during the school year and don’t realize it until summer. I get exercise because I am involved in sports teams, but I think stress really just takes over.</p>
<p>Basically, I have a breathing problem due to high stress and anxiety. My body is in constant need of oxygen, but can never get any so I constantly yawn. I also have daily thoughts about how inadequate I am compared to others.</p>
<p>lol stress is just a depressant for me, I do the exact same things as the OP. I’m not myself when stressed, I was extremely apprehensive after a pop quiz on Thursday because I thought I forgot to add the ^2 after solving for acceleration in physics. I don’t know what I got on the test yet but I was worried the entire day with that horrible feeling that you always have when stressed. I was so worried that I almost didn’t study for the huge Spanish test the next day. The only thing you can do is to try and not put yourself into that crappy situation in the first place. That’s what I believe is one of the things life teaches us, we have to find a way to avoid being stressed and save ourselves a lot of panic.</p>
<p>Agreed, Apandia. For some reason, though, whenever I’m stressed about school I stop caring about my grades all the while that’s usually the thing that stresses me out. Counterintuitive.</p>
<p>I kind of like stress, in a weird sort of way. (Not while it’s happening, but when I’m reflecting on it.)
When I’m stressed, I’m living in the moment. When I’m not living in the moment, I’m worrying about the future and how I’m going to get old and die. Worrying about some test is preferable to that.</p>
<p>i cry.</p>
<p>no really, i just cry lol…i think half of my class has seen me cry. it’s a great release, and it’s difficult for me to control the tears when i’m sad. i usually just stop eating when im stressed, read a book, or ignore everyone until i feel better…sometimes, i do something nice for my friend/etc, because that usually helps me feel better.</p>
<p>It really depends. After I get over stress, I tend to think it was really useful. Well except for the time I had depression, but that’s different. </p>
<p>But when I’m stressed, I have little appetite, don’t care about my grades (which is pathetic since that’s a major factor), become a jerk, break out, and just generally be a black hole of misery. Nobody wants to be around me when I’m stressed.</p>
<p>When I’m stressed, every situation is a slippery slope. Missing the one accent on my Spanish homework means I’ll get a bad grade on the assignment, then a bad grade in the class, somehow that turns into failing all my classes, then not graduating, then not being able to get a job, then dying while living on the streets. Seriously. Everything is a slippery slope. </p>
<p>I also get irritable when I’m stressed and snap at everyone… I can’t seem to focus on one thing and go back and forth and get overwhelmed and snap. I also am pretty mean to myself… There are typically quite a few self-deprecating comments. I do this so often one of my teacher literally wants to beat me over the head because he finds it extremely obnoxious since most of the stuff I believe about myself isnt true, according to him. </p>
<p>Clearly, I don’t handle stress well.</p>
<p>I handle stress by killing zombies.</p>
<p>Crying. Freaking out. Snapping at everyone. Self-deprecation.</p>
<p>It’s a pretty sight, honestly.</p>
<p>I procrastinate terribly and counterintuitively and pick at my skin. Basically, how I respond to stress just sabotages myself and continues the cycle of what I’m stressed about.</p>
<p>This is going to sound crazy but I laugh. I’ll look at the post it note on my computer with the 5-6 things I have to do for homework and I just laugh about it and call myself crazy for putting this all on myself. </p>
<p>I also do it during tests. If it’s some crazy ass calculus problem I’ll laugh it off and understand that I tried my best and it obviously wasn’t good enough. One time I was dismissed for laughing so hard because it was a problem that I knew would take me 1-2 pieces of paper to solve.</p>