Easy Stress Relief?
Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at
4:10 pm
Jake asked:
I don’t want to revert to drugs just to get stress relief.
I have Major Depression and I’m 14, if that helps.
I don’t want to revert to drugs just to get stress relief.
I have Major Depression and I’m 14, if that helps.
Tagged with: Drugs • Major Depression • Stress Relief
Filed under: Stress
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You might use stress balls, they really work and you can get the plush toys which relieves stress.
Here is another solution :
Fill half of a baloon with flour and add 1 and a half spoons of water. Mix it in the baloon and tie it tight. When you squeeze it it feels oddly relaxing and relieving stress.
Try Yoga and mental relaxation
Also try doing some exercise and sport cos’ it makes your body produce a liquid which makes you happy and keeps you out of stress.
Hope I Helped !
Good Luck !
The relaxation response is a good method. Imagine you are in a calming place such as at the ocean. Imagine the smells, sounds, sights etc in detail. A funny movie is also a good choice.
Exercising often and getting adequate and regular sleep each night will help lower depression, stress and anxiety.
Eat healthy, (lots of fruits and veggies) eat foods low in sugar, fat, and carbs. Limit eating foods with preservatives, additives, artificial sweeteners, sugar, high fructose corn syrup and caffeine, these and a Vitamin B complex deficiency can cause emotional disturbances in the brain…eat fish, fish oil/omega3 is a natural antidepressant and enhances brain function (even a tuna fish sandwich 2X a week) liver, pork, chicken and potatoes are also high in vitamin B1-12.
Drink plenty of water to keep your body hydrated, helping to digest food and flush waste faster.
Get outside in the sunshine, your brain will produce dopamine to naturally lift your mood and Vitamin D to enhance your body’s ability to absorb nutrition.
Masturbation reduces depression and is a great stress reliever, but excessive ************ causes the brain and adrenal glands to over-produce dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine, (endorphins) causing an hormonal imbalance and adverse effects in your brain’s receptors.
Be more creative, find ways to express yourself through writing, art, music, sports, or anything you enjoy.
Don’t isolate yourself, talking, hanging out and having fun with friends makes us happy, call them up and invite them over to play cards, meet up to play basketball or to the beach swimming, throw around a football/frisbee.
This will increase your interest and motivation and help lessen your depression…how you project yourself to the world is how people will respond to you.
Good luck to you.
Depressive Realism is the belief that depressed people are actually more in tune with what is really going on in life.
I believe it sometimes. Sadie is right: Get some exercise like walking and eat healthy. Talk to a trusted person and don’t isolate yourself in front of the computer all the time.
Drugs only cause rebound effects.
STRESS: A selection of treatments follows, because circumstances, and individual preferences vary. See stress treatments, at ezy build, below in section 42. A certain level of stress is unavoidable, in modern society, so it is a good idea to develop effective coping methods. For others, or yourself: A massage (at least neck and shoulders) with jasmine, lavender, juniper, and/or bergamot, or German chamomile essential oils added to the massage oil, and to a warm bath, preferably beforehand, to help make any tension knots and muscles more pliant (they may only want, say, a juniper and/or bergamot and/or sandalwood mix: check first). Possibly try a diffuser, as well. See if they will do long, stretching yoga exercises, or t’ai chi with you (see section 2, at ezy build, below).
Practise daily, one of the relaxation techniques on pages 2, 11, 2c, or 2i; whichever works best for you, but the mindfulness breathing for 15 – 20 mns is ideal, although the progressive muscle relaxation can be learned quickly, and takes only several minutes, if pressed for time. Employ the EFT version for use in public, for which you can reasonably claim that you have a headache, as you massage/tap your temples, but it may be advisable to restrict yourself to subvocalising (saying it to yourself, in your mind, not aloud). Section 53, and pages 2, 2.q and 2.o refer. “Even though I sometimes suffer from stress, I deeply and completely accept myself”.
(The following is a variant of EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, which has been used successfully for those people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, insomnia, and anxiety: it is easily learned, quick to use, yet can be very effective. It is easy to be dismissive of such a seemingly unusual technique, but give it a good tryout, for at least a few weeks, to see if it is effective in your case.).
Prior to using either of the methods in the above paragraph, first sit comfortably, and take a deep breath. Then, without moving your head, move your eyes from the left, to the right, and back again, taking around a second to do so (say: “a thousand and one”: this takes approximately a second). Repeat this procedure (without the words, although you can count, subvocally, if you like) 20 times. Then close your eyes and relax. Become aware of any tension or discomfort you feel.
Then open your eyes, and take another deep breath, and repeat step one, closing your eyes, and relaxing afterwards, in the same manner. Then, repeat the procedure one last time. Some people may find that this is all they need do. With experience, you may find that you can practise this in public, with your eyes closed, which greatly widens the window of opportunity for its use, and avoids attracting unwanted attention.
I have found that the 2 – 3 minutes spent using the EMDR markedly reduces distractions to the relaxation process, and is repaid many times over. With experience, you may find that you can practise this in public, with your eyes closed, which greatly widens the window of opportunity for its use, and avoids attracting unwanted attention.
You can also multitask, using the gazing technique, as you walk/jog or exercise, by focusing on a distant object, or just focus awareness on how each step feels, noting any thoughts which flash across your mind, without pursuing any particular train of thought, just gently redirect your focus to the task at hand.
For some people, it helps to visualise of a quiet, relaxing scene, (Imagine, as vividly as you can, that you are on a tropical beach, reclining comfortably; you luxuriate, as the the sun warms you, and a gentle breeze caresses your skin lightly, inhaling the tangy, sea scented, salt laden spray from the sparkling, translucent, aqua waves, crashing on the white, coral beach sand, and feeling the hot sand slip through your fingers in one hand, sipping your favorite drink with the other; all the while, the seagulls call, swoop and cavort playfully overhead in a cloudless, azure sky: you feel just like one of them, free to soar and cartwheel, or just glide in the moist, heavy air, and that this moment will last forever … ).
Some people may find it helps when they listen to:) Other suggestions:
and the audio, as well as the printed version, at: and or the mountain river sounds. Take 4 Omega 3 fish oil supplements, daily, replacing 2 of them with cod liver oil supplements, or a teaspoonful of the oil (I spread mine on toast, and mask its strong taste with fishpaste, and pepper), in the winter months only. Those people who receive adequate exposure to sunlight, daily, won’t need the vitamin D from cod liver oil, but many people, particularly those in latitudes far from the equator, find this difficult, to achieve. Eat healthily, in accordance with your “nutritional type” as determined at SEARCHBAR.
Ginseng (Panax Ginseng (Chinese/Korean/Japanese), panax quinquefolius (American) Eleutherococcus senticosus (Siberian)). It is also known as man root, life root and heal all. Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium pubescens) Lady’s slipper is one of the most widely applicable nerviness available. It can be used in all stress reactions, emotional tension and anxiety states. Try having a cup of “Tension Tamer”, herbal tea, by Celestial Seasonings, (from supermarket tea, or health food aisles) or make some at home, and cool, then bottle, and drink as needed (I find it so strong tasting, that I need to drink it quickly, followed by something like fruit juice, to take away the taste, but others may find it more tolerable). C(h)amomile tea is a more palatable option. As with all herbal/green teas, use lemon/lime, and/or a little sweetener (NOT ARTIFICIAL!!!) but no cream, or milk.
Xylitol, or Stevia is preferable, (health food stores) or fruit sugar (fructose, such as “Fruisana”, from supermarket sugar aisles) or even a little honey, because these will reduce “sugar spikes”, which later deplete you of energy. Minimise/eliminate consumption of highly processed foods, particularly grain products, such as white bread, donuts, cake, cookies/biscuits, or anything with sugar. Opt for more wholefoods, non-starchy vegetables, and fruit.
Light to moderate daily exercise helps fight stress.
Depression is addressed in section 2, at ezy build, and several non-medication based treatments are shown: view page R first, then teen depression, and the rest.