Stress Management - coping with top stressors

  (1) Dealing with toxic people (2) Finding a job and path I need to take. (3) My self-doubt and depressive patterns of avoidance and sometimes self-harm, along with dissociative moments. I cope with them by talking to my friends and having their support. Listening to music helps me too. I exercise to snap myself out of dissociative states.

  Anonymous said " (1) Expectations of myself (and resultant disappointments), (2) Toxic people (3) Comparison with peers Try as I might, I haven't found ways to properly cope with 1 and 3. For (2) I will try to distant myself. And for cases where I am unable to (eg:family members), I try to disengage (I tend to find some excuse to cut the conversation short) once the conversation becomes toxic."

  (1) Body Ache/Pain (2) Some of my remaining avoidance behavior (3) Aging parents. I cope by exercising outdoor at least an hour daily and try to change my perception on these stressors.

  (1) Dealing with toxic people gives me a lot of stress. I avoid them generally as I have not yet learnt good boundary techniques to deal with them.