What's got you stressed out right now?
There’s a lot going on in the world. Do national and international events make you anxious? Is there something in your family that has you worried? What about in your personal life?
My partner is facing a health scare. It’s not life threatening, but it’s still scary.
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I’m stressed out how much my arthritis in my knees has affected my life.
Just about everything. My neighborhood is “gentrifying” rapidly, good neighbors are leaving, and I’m not sure how much longer I’ll want to stay here or where I would go. Israel and Palestine are a mess to say the least and I am terrified that Trump will win the election. Climate change is threatening destruction. And I am trying to figure out what the next 10–15 years of my life will be like.
I am embarrassed to say this. I’m not stressed about the election, Middle East, crime, Global warming, ultra right wing lunatics, anc conspiracy theorists. Why? I am but a spit in the ocean and stressing about it will not accomplish anything.
What is stressing me now? I always achieve a goal when I set the target. A year ago, I set a health goal but seem to have plateaued just shy of my magic number. I am working on it but I just can’t get that needle to hit the mark. I’m so close it is frustrating. More exercise? More sleep? More rest? Anaerobic work? More aerobic work?
Every day, I get older and that goal becomes more difficult to attain. But I’m trying.
Besides working a job and paying taxes to support the occupation, terror, murder, and starvation of a people, I suppose I’ve also been pretty stressed out about a full-on propaganda assault, threats on my daughter’s anti-genocide encampment, a deployment of a police state to beat and arrest the only people with a moral compass in this country, an abandoning of even the pretence of a “lesser of two evils” positioning, and a complete bipartisan agreement on creating a fascist state that we were only supposed to see under Trump.
My other stresses of planning two graduations, struggling to pay my bills, and dealing with multiple family and friend health emergencies seem pretty tame and minor in comparison. I also lost a car key and I’m not sure what I’m going to make for dinner tonight.
My daughter is in 11th grade so the college considerations are on and standardized testing has begun, and all that.
I think that’s the main “background” stress right now.
I need to oil the deck and finding a dry day when I’m not busy has become the priority of the next few days. Right now the deck is drying out from the storm we had yesterday but I don’t know if it will be dry enough by the end of the day for me to get this done today.
The war in the ME and the US Presidential election are concerns but I wouldn’t say they’re stressors, for me. Honestly, I’m not thrilled with Biden and I’m definitely not voting for Trump, so it’s more of an annoyance than anything. Annoyance that those are my two choices and neither makes me happy.
I’m feeling bad for the college kids that won’t get their graduation, because of the protests, being that these kids didn’t have much of a traditional graduation from HS during 2020 Covid. That’s not a stress, just something I feel bad about.
Russians saying they will practice a tactical nuclear detonation in occupied Ukraine.
Impending climate catastrophe.
Growing number of extinctions.
Other impending environmental catastrophes.
The attitudes and ideas that enable the above.
Having to do things I don’t really want to do, rather than my creative work.
Caring about people I love who have health issues, etc.
I’m in a good place emotionally and mentally. I’m not stressed at the moment.
Trying to build a garage for my husband. Stressful finding and talking to builders.
Hearing people not give a shit when Jewish people state what is scary or offensive to us. The same people who lecture about microaggressions and obvious agressions towards other minority groups somehow don’t care about the trauma Jews go through.
The rise of right wing extremism all over the world.
Does one need to be stressed to get a GA? Now I’m stressed.~
Trying to move to assisted living. It’s a nightmare. $7000 a MONTH. In order for Medicare to pay for it I can have 0 assets and 0 money in the bank.
What about Cato, @Dutchess_III. I don’t think you can have a dog at assisted living.
We are trying to sell our house. I am stressed we will, then won’t have enough to buy something we like.
A big beautiful house in my area barely buys an outhouse in the Bay Area.
We also have tons of celebrations in our family during May and June. My Dad going into the Hall Of Fame, my wife’s 70th birthday, a new granddaughter expected any day, my oldest grandson turning 18 and graduating…. It’s all wonderful but stressful.
Just for me @jca2. Rick will stay in the house. And that opens a whole other cab of worms.
@Dutchess_III It sounds like some big decisions are coming your way. I am betting that Cato would rather live with you than with Rick.
Well he can’t come with me. I worry about than.
Putin starting to take the initiative in Ukraine.
Netanyahu’s planned offensive in Rafah.
The unpredictable consequences of global warming.
The stupidity of human beings
Stress is only useful if it’s in the context of performing some constructive action to resolve a problem affecting you personally.
Stressing about things you’ve no control over or can’t affect the outcome of is really very silly, and you should all stop it as it’s going to be bad for your health.
^^I’m fully aware of that fact. And stressed that I couldn’t stop stressing about something I have no control of.
@all, we have been judged and found wanting by @Kropotkin. Let us now all hang our heads in shame.
^^Just the head, not the neck!
^^What Regan said after the exorcism.
@Dutchess_III My prayer for your recovery. I’m going to keep my little problem to myself; it sounds much less important now.
Not stressing too much right now, actually. I grew up with nuclear war as a constant threat and drills in elementary, that turns you into a fatalist early. #GenX
@Dutchess_III I’m really sorry to hear that, I must have missed an accident. :(
I am having a plant in my scene that renders without textures on the farm, and I do not know why. I thought it was because it was an xref object, which has that issue sometimes, so I replaced the plants with vray proxies. Yet the problem persists.
I just didn’t say anything. With the neuropathy in my feet, if I’m going to walk some where, I have to carefully stand up and get my balance before I move. Well, middle of the night I had to pee.I just jumped up…and fell on the corner of the bed, where it makes 90⁰, super bouncy…and got dumped on my head. Hairline fracture on my C2 vertebrae. :(
I think I’m OK now tho.
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Do you know what the cause of the neuropathy is?
No I don’t know.
Have a Dr appointment tomorrow
@Dutchess_III Presumably you’ve been going to the doctor. Has he been helpful? I don’t know how good the medical care in Kansas is. Have you gone for second opinions?
We can go to messaging. I don’t want to hijack any more!
Well we’re under a severe storm watch, and tornado watch
We don’t have a basement…for the first time in my life.
@Hawaii_Jake no one is judging. It’s only good advice. You shouldn’t take things so personally. :)
@Kropotkin I wish I had learned this at a much younger age. Worrying and stress led to my mother’s death at age 77.
The primary stressor in my life right now is also a source of great excitement: my upcoming move to another country. Most of the paperwork has already been finalized, but there are still more things to do before we can actually move there. My boyfriend (and his proficiency in Spanish) has been incredibly helpful in this process; this would’ve been impossible without him (but then it only ever made sense if we were moving together, which we are). It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that it was just a fanciful idea I had and now the reality is about a month away. I will relax more once we are actually there.
^Congrats on your new adventure!
@Demosthenes I know you told us where you were moving to but I don’t remember. Is it Mexico?
@Demosthenes I was in Merida and Cozumel many years ago. Exciting!
@Demosthenes Congrats on the decision to move to MX! I remembering you deliberately about it on a Q. Exciting new adventure!
Money has me stressing right now. A few things have came up that I wasn’t budgeting for, but I know I’ll be okay in a couple of months.
I promised myself to be happy every day of my life, and I keep that promise. I refuse to allow myself to be stressed out about things over which I have no control.
Dad has advanced Alzheimer’s, and he fell Sunday and broke his hip. He’s had a DNR for more than 10 years, but after surgery yesterday, his blood pressure crashed multiple times and we panicked and approved treatment. We should have let him go.
@syz That is so hard. My Dad went in a similar way although is dementia was not so advanced.
I’ve been stressed out most of my life since I was about fourteen. I’m working on it though and am determined to graduate to @YARNLADY status. It will happen.
^^ Me too. The slightest thing causes anxiety – even just making phone calls.
Was self conscious about just loitering in different stores. Until dentist open.
They let me in early because It was raining. All is well.
I bought a bbq sauce brush.
@jca2 <$2 for a pack of two.
@RedDeerGuy1 That’s great. There’s proof that Amazon is definitely not always the cheapest price.
@@jca2 Finished my meal. Was perfect.
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