If you are reading this, you are probably as stressed out as I am about college this current semester. In the past two months I have written a minimum of 20 papers and that isn't even the big ones. At the beginning of this semester, I was a pretty calm and stress free kid. As the semester goes on, I find myself always wanting to stay in bed, watch Netflix and eat. Here are 5(probably very unhealthy) ways to not cope with stress, but we all do them.
1. Eating anything and everything
When I have three classes a day, work, clubs, meetings, activities or anything else that could possibly all happen at the same time, I eat. Then when I get done eating, I eat some more, and then maybe some more after that. As long as I am chewing something, it helps me to not stress as much. But then I get fat and that stresses me out even more. Can you ever really win?
2. Binge watching Netflix
When I don't want to be an adult, I watch Netflix and lay in bed (and eat). I watch Netflix at night, while I am doing homework, and at work when I don't want to do anything. I am currently on the fifth season of Friends which I started a month ago. Only six more seasons to go. Once I finish the current TV show, I will find another one to occupy my time of not wanting to adult today (or ever).
3. Drinking more coffee than I probably should
When I have to stay up past my normal bedtime which is around 10 or 11 at night, I drink coffee. A cup of coffee with three sugars and two creamers and I am good to go. Throughout the day when I am tired from being an adult, I drink coffee to keep myself awake long enough to seem like I have my life together (even though I don't).
4. Complaining about stress to the point of making myself stress more
I'm not sure why complaining about stress to myself and other people is a way of coping with stress, but complaining seems to be a daily routine. Once I finish a paper, I remind myself that not only do I have another paper due today, but there is also one due tomorrow and the next day and probably next week. Papers, papers, papers, and stress (so this method doesn't really help but I'm sure that you complain about stress too).
5. Crying
When none of my other coping methods seem to work, I just cry. It is actually a talent of mine to be able to cry so much. Sometimes I can eat and cry, watch Netflix and cry, drink coffee and cry, and complain while crying or complain about crying. Crying does release a lot of the stress but as soon as I get done crying, there is something else to cry about.
Does the stress ever really end?
