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There are a few comments about how to decrease stress. From personal experience, asking "How can I be less stressed?" is like asking "How can I be happy?" There

by mtm7 7y ago

There are a few comments about how to decrease stress. From personal experience, asking "How can I be less stressed?" is like asking "How can I be happy?" There's not really a great answer... but you can look at the things that would make you _unhappy_ and avoid them. So here's "How can I become MORE stressed?" 1. Buy as much nice stuff as you can – it's okay if you go into debt because it'll persuade you to work harder! 2. Since you're so busy, accept that you don't have time to exercise. You can get around to it in the future (once you're rich!) 3. Stay up as late as you can. After all, you can sleep when you're dead. Caffeine is your friend. 4. Be too lazy to make todo lists or mark anything on your calendar. 5. At least once per week, compare yourself to everyone else. It's the only way to judge how you're doing. 6. Do everything yourself. You don't need to hire that tax accountant. You don't need to ask for help. 7. Sell your time to [Company Name Here]. Yeah, they're hard to work for, but they might make you rich.

rzzzt 7y ago
When in a TV series, the protagonist has eg. a heart problem, and the doctor says "avoid stress": I get super aggravated just listening to such conversations vicariously. It becomes another burden, a non-elective task of actively working on reducing stress factors that appear in your life by default.
cuddlybacon 7y ago
8. Lookup what your friends did on social media and speculate why they didn't invite you.
loughnane 7y ago
This reminds me of a CGP Grey Video “How to maximize misery” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
no_identd 7y ago
>4. Be too lazy to make todo lists or mark anything on your calendar. Ah yes, the ever simple act of 'being' any adjective identity assignment. As someone who had large parts of his hair bleach over night via a superoxidative immune system reaction following extreme stress, lemme translate how you come across here: "Employ free will sorcery to magically shrink your amygdalea, deshrink your hippocampus, transcend depression by magically snapping your finger in one grand act of permanent auto-hypnosis. Don't order food for yourself even if ordering food is often the only thing standing between you either eating something or proceeding to remain in low calorie intake induced parapsychosis which can always potentially lead you to some suicide attempt despite technically having the option of doing so and hence getting food into you to stave off the existential low level hormonal anxiety of not having eaten right for days simply due to lacking the mental spoons to cook food, just ignore the fact that the psychophenomenological experience of the exertion of physical exercise feels vastly different when attempted in an anhedonic, stressed out, anxious & depressed state. Also, ignore the fact that even when you've cut out caffeine of your life for months at a time, it never made a positive difference, as while on the one hand, the high caffeine doses you take represent one of the causes of your long waking periods, on the other hand, high doses of caffeine represent one of the few things which occasionally manage to peirce through the complete slump." I'm down to my absolutely last money, I have no health insurance, every day I read in the newspapers how the government will cut back on social security next and cut future bonuses to companies who don't deserve them, and I feel stressed out as hell, dude. A good quarter of my head has already turned snow white, and I haven't even reached the first quarter of my 30s. If you'd try to shove this load of bullshit advice on me in real life, I probably couldn't even muster the energy to begin expressing just how much I despise this kind of 'advice'. You know what I'd find fucking destressing? People like you, who assert that they speak from 'personal experience', yet don't actually name a single example of said personal experience, would stop trying to play Internet mental health professional and went back to using their armchairs to read books, or even better, went out to socialize more, to build a better capacity for empathy.

by mtm7 7y ago

rzzzt 7y ago

When in a TV series, the protagonist has eg. a heart problem, and the doctor says "avoid stress": I get super aggravated just listening to such conversations vicariously. It becomes another burden, a non-elective task of actively working on reducing stress factors that appear in your life by default.

cuddlybacon 7y ago

8. Lookup what your friends did on social media and speculate why they didn't invite you.

loughnane 7y ago

This reminds me of a CGP Grey Video “How to maximize misery” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o

no_identd 7y ago

>4. Be too lazy to make todo lists or mark anything on your calendar. Ah yes, the ever simple act of 'being' any adjective identity assignment. As someone who had large parts of his hair bleach over night via a superoxidative immune system reaction following extreme stress, lemme translate how you come across here: "Employ free will sorcery to magically shrink your amygdalea, deshrink your hippocampus, transcend depression by magically snapping your finger in one grand act of permanent auto-hypnosis. Don't order food for yourself even if ordering food is often the only thing standing between you either eating something or proceeding to remain in low calorie intake induced parapsychosis which can always potentially lead you to some suicide attempt despite technically having the option of doing so and hence getting food into you to stave off the existential low level hormonal anxiety of not having eaten right for days simply due to lacking the mental spoons to cook food, just ignore the fact that the psychophenomenological experience of the exertion of physical exercise feels vastly different when attempted in an anhedonic, stressed out, anxious & depressed state. Also, ignore the fact that even when you've cut out caffeine of your life for months at a time, it never made a positive difference, as while on the one hand, the high caffeine doses you take represent one of the causes of your long waking periods, on the other hand, high doses of caffeine represent one of the few things which occasionally manage to peirce through the complete slump." I'm down to my absolutely last money, I have no health insurance, every day I read in the newspapers how the government will cut back on social security next and cut future bonuses to companies who don't deserve them, and I feel stressed out as hell, dude. A good quarter of my head has already turned snow white, and I haven't even reached the first quarter of my 30s. If you'd try to shove this load of bullshit advice on me in real life, I probably couldn't even muster the energy to begin expressing just how much I despise this kind of 'advice'. You know what I'd find fucking destressing? People like you, who assert that they speak from 'personal experience', yet don't actually name a single example of said personal experience, would stop trying to play Internet mental health professional and went back to using their armchairs to read books, or even better, went out to socialize more, to build a better capacity for empathy.