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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
I handle stress very poorly. Tend to close down like an oyster. Get all defensive. Don't want to communicate anymore.
I have tried to change that. To no avail.
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Aye, you and me both, m-to-the-h.
I suppose it's worth differentiating between "stress" and "depression", since, while related, I'd be describing different things if I make the distinction (which I perhaps haven't). I admit to a tendency, when under stress (that is, when something refuses to work), to...umm, breakages and rants to The Loved One (not "at...", though perhaps they sound like it?). Certainly I only break my own stuff, but I have been known to break things. Anger is something I'm not at all happy with about myself, knowing its a brittle shell over something(s) ugly or unresolved or faulty or studiously avoided by and in me: all the things about myself that I don't like (and thus we lead to the "depression" connection
).
I spend a lot of time on MR and elsewhere when I'm stressed.
Cheers,
Marc