That's good that Chill is. Ta again to whoever mentioned it. Stuck a link on my desktop, although the only stress I have at mo is adding extras to the wife's palatial greenhouse.
PS My only regret about my own loony episode was not stabbing somebody while I had a good excuse.
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Previously on "How do you know if you're affected by stress?"
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Chill radio has meditative podcasts that sound very good.
And they're free...
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Originally posted by premiere View PostStarted to feel unwell whilst in a shop in 2009. Felt faint, shaking, a feeling of impending doom.
Sat down for a whilst and symptoms passed. Went to GP the next day suffering the above and pains etc. They took my blood pressure and it was through the roof. They immediately put me on blood pressure tablets.
Went up the chemist to collect them. By this time I felt ok again. Took first pill as described....started to feel ill (doc warned me this may happen but it would be ok). Took second pill a few hours later as advised.
Midnight. Ended up in A and E. Pills dropped my pressure so low I was knacked.
Off the piils immediately. Had a battery of tests. ECG, Bloods etc etc. Diagnosis was Panic Attack brought on by stress.
I really do feel I ought to collect my overgarment.....
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Started to feel unwell whilst in a shop in 2009. Felt faint, shaking, a feeling of impending doom.
Sat down for a whilst and symptoms passed. Went to GP the next day suffering the above and pains etc. They took my blood pressure and it was through the roof. They immediately put me on blood pressure tablets.
Went up the chemist to collect them. By this time I felt ok again. Took first pill as described....started to feel ill (doc warned me this may happen but it would be ok). Took second pill a few hours later as advised.
Midnight. Ended up in A and E. Pills dropped my pressure so low I was knacked.
Off the piils immediately. Had a battery of tests. ECG, Bloods etc etc. Diagnosis was Panic Attack brought on by stress.
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Originally posted by dang65 View PostOK, I've done that. What should I do next?
After that eat as many sherbert dips as you can until you start foaming at the mouth, lie on the floor waving your arms and yell 'I am a duck I am a duck I am going to fly away.. You might only get 10 years for that....
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Originally posted by dang65 View PostOK, I've done that. What should I do next?
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIf you are stressed for any length of time, the physical damage can be permanent e.g. in terms of permanently raised blood pressure.
So you need to ask yourself, should I carry on with this or just walk away.
99.9% of the time saying "Fook it" is the right decision - provided you are not a flighty individual like MF.
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
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Originally posted by dang65 View PostOK, I've done that. What should I do next?
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If you are stressed for any length of time, the physical damage can be permanent e.g. in terms of permanently raised blood pressure.
So you need to ask yourself, should I carry on with this or just walk away.
99.9% of the time saying "Fook it" is the right decision - provided you are not a flighty individual like MF.
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostBe wary of sleeping pills NL. One can go for over a year with little sleep, but that's what it can take to get off damn sleeping pills anyway.
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Again, if you think you're stressed and possibly succumbing to depression go and see someone.
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I suffered from depression for two years or so, around 2001 it started, was the worst time of my life, I just felt like crying all the time and I feared my own mortality, often wondering if the next night might be the one I don't wake up from.
When things had pissed me off before, like being dumped, not getting the gig, not getting the girl I'd always been able to knock it out my head and get on with the next girl chase/job chase, but not with this.
I'd go on mega-long walks, for about 4/5 hours every night to 'resolve' everything in my head and sort it out with extreme analysis. Never did of course.
Then my father died unexpectedly and I thought 'here were go, this is gonna tip me over the edge....' It didn't, I think it knocked some life into me and I came out of it, slowly...
And in someways I think i'm a better person for it, I can see it coming again and snap myself out of it before it gets hold. Having said that I'm suffering at the moment with the same stress-related symptoms as the OP described, basically cos I hate this self-imposed albeit hopefully temporary permiedom and the lack of cash therein. Warchest depleted to almost nowt and salary barely enough to keep what's left ticking over....
The best thing about all this and feeling finally that you're at rock bottom and cliche though it is - you know the only way is up. Or staying there. Never thought of that. Oh no!
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostAnd you are talking her out of it.............why??
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