A 24 year-old with a passion for a healthy life on the inside and outside. I’m married to the world’s most fantastic husband, love to bake, cook, run, practice yoga and disappear into the world of books. I’m a civils engineer in biotechnology and a recovering work-a-holic who suffered from severe stress in 2009… Welcome to my life!
Since I suffered from severe stress, which is also what made me start this blog, a lot of the things I do to stay healthy is also to stay away from stress. See below for my story with stress.
Posts on me (in Danish with translation option)
En typisk dag i mit tidligere liv
But I get a kick out of you – Min historie med arbejdet som passion
My stress-symptoms… or “How I know when to stop working!”
- I start to post-pone meals, cancel breaks and bathroom visits (believe me, I can refrain from peeing for a reeeally long time)- and work instead
- Most of the time I can’t even feel that I’m hungry/have to pee/am tired/etc.
- I stop prioritizing to spend time with my husband and myself – and work instead
- My head is spinning around when I wake up in the morning and work is the first thing on my mind
- I say “fork” when I mean “remote”, “sofa” when I mean “fridge” and forget where I’ve put things. Get on my bike without the helmet in the morning because I forget it. Can’t remember if I’ve turned off the oven/locked the door/flushed the toilet
- Can’t remember what I did only yesterday or an hour ago
- Work right up until I go to bed
- There is a constant restlessness in my body
- I post-pone more and more tasks because I haven’t got the energy to handle them
- I carry out half of a lot of tasks but never really finish any
- I stop breathing properly (get a shallow breath)
- I cry a lot, often from undefined things
- Get a nagging feeling in my stomach whenever my phone rings or I receive a text ’cause “Oh I can’t handle any more things or people!”
- Can’t decide what I want for dinner, don’t know what I’m in the mood for. Ever.
- Get nightmares (sure sign!), am a troubled sleeper and wake up 5 minutes before my alarm clock go off, with the look of a crazy person and start running around right away
- I actually had chest pains which I ignored for 6 months. This must NEVER EVER happen again!!!!!!
- I haven’t got the energy or desire to spend time with people I otherwise love
- My sex-drive is… what sex-drive???
- I have a stomach-ache in the morning and can feel the tears pressing against my eyelids before going to work in the morning
- And when I was feeling the worst I felt like I would never ever recover from this. I simply could see no way out whatsoever…
Some of these symptoms – mostly the first ones – were the small signs that things were going wrong, and those are also the ones I experience now if things get too busy. But after ignoring these signs then came the nightmares, stomach ache, tears and chest pains. I hope you will never get that far out, and that you will stop if you are experiencing some of the minor symptoms.
I had to end up sitting on a bike track on my way to work, crying and not being able to drive any longer, before I started helping myself. That was going too far…
Hej du…Sikke en super ide med en blog om stress…Håber det er ok jeg vil have den på min blog roll? Jeg skriver om terapi, måske vil du læse med?
Mh
Anna
Jamen selvfølgelig må du da linke til mig
Vil da lige lure på din blog engang imorgen – tak for linket!
Jeg sad og googlede “stress og mad” og faldt over din side ved en tilfældighed. Din historie er meget tæt på min egen historie, og jeg er selv sygemeldt med stress pt. som desværre også har udviklet sig til en depression, så det er jo vældig fedt. Det er så vigtigt et emne at tage op, og desværre bruger “folk” ordet stress lidt for meget i flæng i disse tider så det bliver ikke altid taget alvorligt. Skal have læst lidt mere på din side, men det må blive i etaper, må kun læse en time om dagen… hvis jeg har lyst vel at mærke… men den sang kender du nok kun alt for godt
Der er lys for enden af tunnellen, og det der ikke slår os ihjel (stress) vil i den sidste ende gøre os stærkere forudsat at vi ellers stopper op og reflekterer lidt over vores liv og den måde vi “kører” det på.
Mvh
Carina
Hej med dig
Jeg har fulgt med i din blog på det seneste, og det er med stor fornøjelse jeg læser dine indlæg. Det er rigtig interessant og du har virkelig nogle gode pointer.
I øjeblikket er jeg i gang med et eksamensprojekt på Københavns Universitet, hvor jeg skal skrive en artikel om stress, og tænkte på om du evt. ville deltage i et interview og fortælle din stresstory? Det bliver ikke noget vildt og voldsomt, og det er ikke noget der bliver publiceret nogle steder. Men det kunne være rigtig interessant at skrive din historie tror jeg.
Hvis du er interesseret må du meget gerne skrive til mig hurtigst muligt. Min mail fremgår vist af denne kommentar.
Indtil da vil jeg i spænding vente på et nyt spændende indlæg på din blog
Mange hilsner
Laura Nicolaisen
Hej, har du en email – jeg vil gerne tale lidt løb med dig. Et meget afstressende et af slagsen