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Has anyone found good, long-term methods for stress management? I know I am stressed and I see the evidence - restless sleep, elevated WBC, worsening anxiety. I, unfortunately, haven't found a good routine way to manage stress.
Has anyone found good, long-term methods for stress management? I know I am stressed and I see the evidence - restless sleep, elevated WBC, worsening anxiety. I, unfortunately, haven't found a good routine way to manage stress.
Separate your life and your work if work stresses you out. There should be a clear line where you are at home and decompress.
Read a bit into mindfulness. You don't have to do all the exercises. But it's important to become aware of your stress factors.
Oh, and the usual exercise and eating healthier. A good workout really relaxes you mentally.
Maybe it was a coincidence but at my last job I was so insanely stressed and burnt out. My manager was terrible, treated me like an idiot, and my ideas were stifled day in and day out. I woke up one day and seemingly overnight my beard had a grey patch - almost white, in fact. It fell out in the week after. Almost a year and a half later, after leaving that job, I took the pandemic to really focus on my stress levels…
My classmate, who was maybe a few years younger, was a lead/owner for his MSP.
Completely gray hair and beard.
He just looked so stressed, like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Stress is terrible. Work overloaded me and caused so much stress that I had stress-induced alopecia. My beard fell out in patches, and I had random patches of hair fall out on the back of my head, almost like perfect circles. Besides that, I couldn't really enjoy myself anymore, and I would often spend my non-work time vegetating. Then there's the teeth grinding and all the damage that comes with that. The hair came…
I read the book and did the work (similar to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and can honestly say it changed my life. I went from catastrophizing just about everything to not worrying pretty much at all.
I can’t imagine going back to the stress levels I used to have.
Maybe it was a coincidence but at my last job I was so insanely stressed and burnt out. My manager was terrible, treated me like an idiot, and my ideas were stifled day in and day out. I woke up one day and seemingly overnight my beard had a grey patch - almost white, in fact. It fell out in the week after. Almost a year and a half later, after leaving that job, I took the pandemic to really focus on my stress levels…
I had few grey hair during my college days, after I joined as programmer, I have a patch of grey on my right frontal lobe. But I was not thinking stress is the cause, instead I believed in my own lie that all vitamins is getting sucked by the brain, and the thinking part of the brain is in the front. :D lol. I used to think that thinking power is super cool, and I'm realising very recently that it is a sign of stress…
Do never, ever let a job or manager affect your stress levels. If you can, seek greener pastures, but more importantly, do not let it affect you. Same for relationship issues. The hair is only one of the affected areas. God knows how bad this is some internal body parts if it leads to binge eating or coping solutions like drinking etc. Not to mention the mind.
Can you elaborate on how to not let a job affect you in this way? Do you think stress is equally caused by external factors (boss, job) or internal factors (personality, etc.)? I would be afraid of quitting a great job over stress only to find out the problem was inside me the entire time.
In this market if your company burnt to the ground you'd likely end up with a short vacation and a raise.
So what does it mean when the hair on the top of your head is still fine but your beard is turning gray. Does that mean I'm half-stressed?
Maybe it was a coincidence but at my last job I was so insanely stressed and burnt out. My manager was terrible, treated me like an idiot, and my ideas were stifled day in and day out. I woke up one day and seemingly overnight my beard had a grey patch - almost white, in fact. It fell out in the week after. Almost a year and a half later, after leaving that job, I took the pandemic to really focus on my stress levels…
Many years ago I was attending SonicWALL training, having worked for an MSP. My classmate, who was maybe a few years younger, was a lead/owner for his MSP. Completely gray hair and beard. He just looked so stressed, like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.