How do you act when you're stressed?

Very curt. Short sentences. I tend to be very focused on one matter, but I start worrying about concerns far in the future. I blow every little problem up to epic proportions.

I also fidget a lot and constantly tap my feet.

It depends what kind of stressed.
I often find that anything school-related will reduce me to tears.

Otherwise I just turn into a raging bitch.

When I am stressed, I pick my lips and go into a quiet state. I think it is a form of personal meditation, but I always come out of it quickly and revert to my mantra in life, which is that stress is completely pointless. The only things people stress about are things that they cannot change. That to me is a waste of my life.

I don’t really get stressed that often.

When I do it is usually when things are out of my control.

So I make a list of what what my options are. Then I wait for a few hours and look the list over and pick the one that will hurt the least.

Crying, short temper, irritable, very frank, cloudy thoughts (which on exacerbates everything)

When I’m stressed out, I’m usually not in a very good mood. I sometimes become an introvert while attempting to work through or solve the immediate problems that are causing me stress. After the episode is over, though, I can always be counted on to return to my bright eyed and bushy tailed self. No one likes a perpetual sourpuss. =)

I get very emotional, tired, lazy and I can’t concentrate or focus on anything. I’m very stressed right now and all I want to do is lay in bed and watch tv.

Like Deputy Barney Fife when he reaches for his gun under pressure.

I talk too much, and become overly analytical.

I get irritable, much more annoyed at things that would only slightly bother me before. But I get really nervous about things too, I guess that counts as stress. That just makes my stomach hurt a lot.

I agree with @le_inferno about school-related stress. I hate school-related stress.

I get energized and take care of business. When rhe crisis subsides I fall apart.

I stay calm on the outside and freak out on the inside.

Irritable, my voice’s pitch goes up and I start speaking at a faster clip.

Sometimes I blurt out “homina, homina, homina”.

when I get stressed I feel almost claustrophobic like i want to leave wherever I am and I want to be alone. I don’t deal very well with stress. But if I want to get my mind off something I’ll do simple math (addition and subtraction) it just pushes everything out of my head for a little while. But stress management is not my forte.

Stressed.

I know there’s “normal” stress reactions like many of the ones above, but be aware that an excess of many of these feelings can be caused by a medical issue, and not the normal, everyday problems. My doctor discovered an underlying medical cause for many of my stress factors, and I am now on medication.

Stress… What a fun thing to live with isn’t it?
When I’m stressed I tend to either one create a very big problem for myself and others, or two lock myself up in my room turn my radio up loud and oddly enough talk to my childhood toys. <—What a nice way to deal with stress isn’t it?

Quieter, don’t want to eat or sleep and try to work more to distract myself while I work through whatever it is.

For one, I start to perspire all over. I rarely perspire, even when working in the hot sun, but get me stressed, and it is Niagra Falls.

Like @aprilsimnel and @PandoraBoxx I react the same way that they stated. I also get easily annoyed, and my blood pressure shoots up. My tolerance for other people goes way down, and I smoke a lot more. My anxiety also rears its ugly head and adds more fuel to the fire.

It takes me a bit to calm down after a stressful situation, and if anything kills me, it will be stress-related.

i whine a lot. and being stressed usually makes me super cranky, which makes me want to just go to sleep, and it isn’t quite a good idea to get in the way of my sleep. oh, and if someone brings up the thing i’m stressed about? they’ll probably get a heavy dose of sarcasm and a dirty look.

or i just kind of go in my room and mope around.

Like a dick.

@Blondesjon so how can we REALLY tell? :^)

I get really grumpy (little annoyances ticks me off a LOT more), I make weird faces and start talking in my hometown dialect, the last can lead to some funny moments.

I can be pretty rude, which I always regret but can’t seem to help. I fiddle with my ring over and over again. I often really don’t want to be touched or comforted.