I used to thrive on stress. I even got high from the feeling of being stressed out and doing a good job. It pushed me, made me work harder, longer, more intensely.
I didn’t like it, and was always hoping to find a replacement ya to minimize it, but when it was there I took on the challenge to deal with it like going into a fight.
Now, since sz and 3 year psychotic break I avoid it like the plague. Like I’ve got ptsd from stress and now I’m just fighting off panic attacks.
Anyone else relate?
It’s like in comparison to battling with your mind everyday nothing else matters
I used to live in very high, daily stress, as an RN, all the while being acutely psychotic and suicidally depressed the whole time. Which made things even more stressful.
I lived that way for ten years straight. I really don’t know how I did it. My former pdoc says I “accomplished the impossible”.
The only way I can explain it is that I must take after my mother, who was a real Super Woman in a very real sense.
I try to be careful with stress ever since I found out about stress link but it seems to have gotten harder now since I’m stressing about my stress due to the link. Anyway I try my best
I used to run a couple small businesses and thrived on the stress. I was manic most of the time and had no problem staying up for days at a time to get everything done.
Now stress makes me sicker. I didn’t even last a full month at a part time job recently. I don’t know what changed. Maybe it’s the medication, or maybe my brain has changed over the years.