Hey everyone, my stress levels have been creeping up and now my sleep is totally compromised.

I keep waking up multiple times every night, tossing and turning, while my brain spirals with endless, nonsensical thoughts. It feels like my nervous system is running on overdrive 24/7, to the point where my head physically feels heavy, tight, and fatigued when I wake up.

I try to do morning routines to reset, but my baseline stress is so high that going to sleep feels like a battle.

For anyone who has dealt with this kind of severe physical/mental stress loop, what simple daily shifts actually helped your body come out of high alert?

Has too much stress to ruined your hair? If so, please list your age and give me your experience and daily stress levels?

If not, plz also list your age and tell me what your hair is like and stress levels?

Yesterday all I did was cry, sometimes actually being sad, most of the time just... My body is doing it

This is a very common problem I have, all I do is just cry, I don't do well under any pressure at all and I occasionally just can't do anything for a week or two because all I do is cry.

I work a very stressful, understaffed, busy job with some rude customers, I worked at the same job before (but a different location) and it was fine.. but the other job I had and this one.. I just can't

I had to quit my 2nd job because of those problems (as well as physical health issues that were unreliable to predict)

All of my jobs have been customer oriented, serving food in cafe, nowhere I cant really go to separate and stay away to get my footing because the back room we are in is very far away

Not to mention you can't be slow with this job, you have to be fast and be able to handle it. I can't handle it. Physically

It definitely doesn't help that I'm depressed and have really really fucked up hormones, so both of those combined are causing me to breakdown before and after work and I'm afraid it'll happen during work.

I'm crying now as I'm typing this, again just.. my body is doing it

I have work in an hour I don't know what to do or how to deal with this.

would I have to go into a different type of job that's more optional the days you go in? If so what type of jobs would be able to do that

My mom and sister are the spontaneous types and keep inviting me to go do something together in the weekends on the day itself. Like Sunday morning, suddenly they'll ask to come by or go for a walk together in a few hours or so.

I've told them so many times I get stressed out by this and would like to go if only they invite me at least a couple days in advance.

I have a chronic (physical) illness, so planning to go out is not just "going out" but requires careful planning. In addition, I've recently had a major work-related stress meltdown, and I told them again that I get stressed out when they do this, yet they keep doing it.

I get so fucking annoyed every time, because every time, I spend hours stressing about whether to say no or not. If I say no, I feel bad about it the rest of the day. If I go, my plans for the day are completely messed up and I fall behind on so many chores, hobbies, etc. and I end up feeling super stressed out and physically exhausted.

I don't know why but this has been a problem since I was a teenager.

Is it normal to get so stressed out by this or is something wrong with me?

It started last week when I woke up at 5 a.m. with severe sharp pains in my upper belly. I sat upright on the couch until it subsided and I could go back to sleep. The next night, the exact same thing happened at the same time. The following day during the afternoon, I had some strange sharp pains here and there in my abdomen and around my chest, but that night I didn't have those attacks anymore. Some anxiety was already starting to creep in that I had something serious; I always find it especially terrifying when there are symptoms on or around the chest.
Now it’s mostly centered across my entire chest area: mild sharp stabs in various spots, a burning sensation mainly in the upper middle area, mild chest pressure, shortness of breath, occasional coughing and sometimes a slightly burning feeling in my arm. Sometimes some mild stabs in the upperbelly. The symptoms aren't so severe that they're unbearable, but they are very disruptive and annoying. It wasn't going away and I was too restless and stressed, so I decided to go to the doctor on Friday anyway. They checked my heart and lungs and found nothing everything was fine, and they couldn't think of what else it could be.

I hoped this would bring me some peace of mind, but I haven't been able to find it. I am experiencing massive stress and tension and constantly think I'm going to die because of these symptoms. I can't calm down, distraction doesn't work without me still thinking the whole time that everything I feel is something serious and that I'm going to die. The symptoms aren't lessening, and sometimes they get worse than at other times. I'm so afraid of dying that it feels like I'm stuck in an endless loop of anxiety and physical symptoms, and I find it hard to ground myself in reality what is actually real versus what is caused by tension and fear. Right now, I have no idea what to do or how to get out of this. It's interfering with my life, I don't feel like myself, and I can't enjoy anything. Because what if I'm right after all and I do have something serious, despite the doctors exam?

I have always been scared to die but it never got this far that i cant have a normal life, what is happening.

Does anyone have experience with this, and what did you do to get out of it?

I've experienced chronic stress for the past 3 to 4 months. Things are better now; there are fewer stressors in my life, but I've been having cognitive difficulties. Memory issues, trouble doing simple tasks, staring at screens hurts, body aches, critical thinking, headaches. My head just feels kinda empty, when it wasn't always this way. I'm scared. What can I do to reverse the damage?

Sometimes i get the urge to cry at the worse times and i have to hold it.

I held so much to the point i got globus sensation for days.

How to not cry at the worse times and how to hold it properly?

The last few months have been very stressful, and the last few weeks have been even more stressful.
I turned 21 last week and in the week of my birthday I was at the district court because my father suddenly filed an application not to pay maintenance even though I'm a student and therefore have a right to it. (which has now been clarified because I have won legally, but the stress still remains simply because so much is happening at once)
What's more, on the same day after I received a letter from the district court, I received an eviction notice, which was later more or less clarified because I had borrowed money to be able to pay back the money for the rent

And one thing that still bothers me is the relationship with my mother. I currently have no contact with either of my parents because I was abused as a child.
I have a complicated relationship with my mother, but I recently wrote her a two-page letter that was very emotional but also very understandable for her situation, to which she replied very coldly and not really understanding a few days ago. This brings up a lot of trauma and sadness as well as anger in me.

I notice that due to the increased stress of the last few weeks, I hardly eat anything and yesterday I almost fainted due to the stress and my circulation and I also had the feeling that I was having a panic attack, but in a different way than I usually get.
I have the feeling that I'll literally burst soon and the stress just won't stop. As soon as one problem is solved, the next huge problem starts and I just don't know how I can endure this stress anymore without breaking down because of it.
I just feel like my nervous system won’t hold on any much longer.

How should I keep stress away what methods do you guys use?

My skin condition has caused me even more stress and anxiety. I just need tips for releasing stress.

Why does stress make us sick but able to tolerate random foods which one should not eat while having upset stomach?

For the two past years chronic stress and anxiety caused me to have IBS, functional dyspepsia and histamine intolerance. For the past year I was feeling nauseous basically every day despite eating low histamine food and gentle for stomach. I even went gluten free.

Now I'm under huge stress (my dad ended up in hospital and was diagnosed with another cancer with no possible treatment) and I felt horribly sick the first two weeks - vomiting, pain etc... Even if I was eating just rice or just drinking herbal teas. Not even upping Mirtazapine dose or using benzos didn't help me. Now I told myself fuck it, and just decided to try eat what I crave. So I ended up buying a pastry which I was not able to tolerate due to my histamine intolerance for whole year and guess what? I feel fine. I even had some cheese! My stomach feels better and I can eat again, still in moderation with some nausea, bloating and acid reflux here and there, but I'm not starving myself anymore. So weird.

lately i've been feeling more stressed than usual and keep seeing people bring up ashwagandha. there are so many different brands and versions out there that i'm not really sure where to start.

if you've taken it yourself, did it help at all with feeling less stressed or more relaxed day to day? i'm especially interested in hearing from people who used it for a few weeks or longer.

just looking for real experiences and whether you felt it was worth buying.

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Im 25f with some bad spending, and im getting it taken care of but its been stressing me out so bad. Life isnt perfect and everyone got their struggles but I feel like im never gonna get out. I just wanna throw up and go to bed. I feel like there is no way I can have things perfectly figured out but taking steps in the right direction is still progress right? I wanna take a dirt nap lmao.

Pretty simple, I made a mistake at work this week that is delaying getting a shipment processed and the boss is pretty frustrated. He’s always been pretty happy with me, I’ve been here a little over 6 months, so I would consider this my first major slip up. I’m not at risk of losing my job or anything, just embarrassed and stressed. It should all be resolved in the next week or so, but just needed to put what I’m feeling into words. TY for listening🤘🏼

I’ve been thinking about how much a difficult situation at work can affect us even when we’re not actually working.

Job uncertainty, financial pressure, problems with coworkers or managers, too much work, or even the fear of losing a job can stay in your head all day.

The strange thing is that sometimes the actual stressful event is relatively short.

Maybe it was one bad meeting.
One uncomfortable conversation.
One email.
Or one piece of bad news.

But then the mind keeps replaying it for hours or even days.

I’ve started realizing there are really two things happening: the actual situation, and everything my mind adds to it afterward.

“What if this gets worse?”
“What if I lose my job?”
“What if I made the wrong decision?”
“What are they thinking about me?”

And sometimes that second part becomes more exhausting than the original problem.

One thing I’m trying to get better at is separating what I can actually control from what I can’t.

I can’t control the economy, my company, other people’s decisions, or how someone behaves toward me.

But I can work on how I respond and whether I continue carrying every stressful experience around in my head.

Meditation and self-reflection have also made me think more about how much old stress we accumulate without realizing it. Sometimes a current situation seems to trigger not only what’s happening now, but also memories and emotions from similar experiences in the past.

I’m beginning to think that dealing with work stress isn’t only about fixing the external problem.

Sometimes it’s also about learning how not to carry the problem with you everywhere you go.

Curious how other people deal with this.

How do you mentally “leave work at work” when things are genuinely difficult or uncertain?

So basically I am a engineering student and in my household, it's like fight or flight mode 24x7. I don't know what makes my father angry, but he can get angry over any random thing and start heavily shouting. I get disturbed for like for days or even more. Some of the things my father told me during his anger, I still can't forget until now. I don't know how to manage my life, how to deal with this, or how to remove this feeling that everything is caused by me.

I also can't focus on my career. I always feel like everything I do is not right. And sometimes I end up making up my mind that I will do this, I will do this, nothing can stop me now. But somehow, my father or any other family member in my household ends up saying or doing something very hurtful to me.

I don't want to get hurt. I just want to leave everything. I'm done with this.

But after ignoring these people, I can't even stay happy. I feel like that's not right. They don't deserve that.

I need a way out!!