The following are helpful hints to ensure a heart attack, a bursting
blood vessel, an aggravated ulcer and at the very least, indigestion.
Caregiver.com’s top 5 suggestions on How to Stay Really, Really
Stressed:
1. Don't exercise and stay overweight. If you watch what you eat
and exercise, you are sure to feel more energetic, your endorphins will
be all over the place, and you might start to think clearly. Then you'll
get things accomplished, feel better and, ugh...relax. Forget it, stay
tired.
2. Avoid fun and get rid of your sense of humor. Doctors have
proven that laughter and enjoyment are good for you and your heart. You
can't be properly stressed if you are enjoying your life. It just
doesn't work that way.
3. Eliminate your support systems and never ever ask for help.
The best way to stay stressed is to make sure no one else can do
anything for you or your loved one. You have to be responsible for
everything and everyone. How else can you make it all your fault when
schedules crash or things don't go well?
4. Avoid hugs and comfort whenever possible. Those same
meddling doctors who keep telling us to laugh more, also found out that
there is some kind of measurable healing power in soothing,
comforting physical contact like when you are hugged. If you let anyone
hug you, practically all that great stress you've been building up all
day goes right out the window. Your heart beats more evenly, your blood
pressure comes down, you probably even forget to yell at the next person
you see. Hugs are just the worst thing you could do if you are trying to
stay in an over-stressed mode.
5. Eliminate all time management practices. Procrastinate!
Procrastinate! Procrastinate! Poor time management helps to increase
your sense of being overwhelmed and out of control. Trying to do
everything at once, with no plan in sight is the perfect way to get
nothing done. That way you can continue to blame yourself for everything
that went wrong and of course, your stress level will go through the
ceiling.
Follow our advice, and you will be able to take an expensive vacation
where you will be waited on hand and foot and your health will be
monitored regularly. Of course, you'll be in the hospital, but then you
can start stressing over the bills as soon as you get home.
http://www.caregiver.com/articles/if_one_more_person_tells_me_to_relax.htm
Hugs,
Gail
