In my life there are two primary forms of stress, Distress and Eustress (there is also Neustress but it is very small and not really worth mentioning). Distresses in my life include, My fear of failing in school, fear of messing up at work and getting fired (professional), fear of disappointing my parents (personal), and sadness over my friends not being in good spaces (personal), feeling useless when my friends won’t let me help them (personal), over-thinking my own thoughts and getting stressed over being stressed (psychological). Eustresses in my life include excitement over learning about Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop role playing games (personal), Happiness over making new friends and learning about people (personal), and feeling
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For instance at work, I sometimes focus on how I’m bussing tables to slowly or how I’ve messed up instead of how I’m doing well and the compliments people give to me which is mental filtering. This is also exemplary of “All or Nothing Thinking” because it involves me disqualifying the positive (another unhelpful thinking style) and focusing singularly on the negative to but myself down when I have made a mistake. That may transition to feeling using emotional reasoning and thinking that I am a failure because I feel like …show more content…
What I have and will attempted to decrease the effect of these stressors, I will attempt a thought log. I have attempted mentally deconstructing my thoughts and doing body scans. Furthermore I will attempt to set more goals and get more into specifics about my stressed behaviors.
What have I attempted, and how it impacted me: When I do body scans, I typically feel calmer and at ease. For analyzing thoughts sometimes it helps but other times I’ll use it as an excuse to say “I should” be doing some other behavior and beat on myself for failing to do that.
When I do practice self-care, I notice my body feels more at ease, and my chest less tight. Emotionally, I feel calmer and less likely to hurt myself or have negative thoughts. Behaviorally I’m more focused and happier in general.
My relationships have become more open since I started practicing more self- care techniques. School has become easier to focus on and work has become easier to focus on and less frustrating too because
For instance at work, I sometimes focus on how I’m bussing tables to slowly or how I’ve messed up instead of how I’m doing well and the compliments people give to me which is mental filtering. This is also exemplary of “All or Nothing Thinking” because it involves me disqualifying the positive (another unhelpful thinking style) and focusing singularly on the negative to but myself down when I have made a mistake. That may transition to feeling using emotional reasoning and thinking that I am a failure because I feel like …show more content…
What I have and will attempted to decrease the effect of these stressors, I will attempt a thought log. I have attempted mentally deconstructing my thoughts and doing body scans. Furthermore I will attempt to set more goals and get more into specifics about my stressed behaviors.
What have I attempted, and how it impacted me: When I do body scans, I typically feel calmer and at ease. For analyzing thoughts sometimes it helps but other times I’ll use it as an excuse to say “I should” be doing some other behavior and beat on myself for failing to do that.
When I do practice self-care, I notice my body feels more at ease, and my chest less tight. Emotionally, I feel calmer and less likely to hurt myself or have negative thoughts. Behaviorally I’m more focused and happier in general.
My relationships have become more open since I started practicing more self- care techniques. School has become easier to focus on and work has become easier to focus on and less frustrating too because