LOH Community Contest #201 ~ My Safe Space

Today's world is full of stress, deadlines, and way too much to do! What is your number one stress reliever that you depend on to make it through?

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Among my friends, I think I am the one who complains most about stress, perhaps it's because I have a lot going on in my head or it's just that I have little or zero tolerance for stress but whatever the case, I get stressed too many times and over trivial things.

It was funny when I realized that even merely sitting in the crowd for too long, not talking, just listening to people or someone talk could result in me getting drained and stressed mentally, making it look like I have been doing tedious work.

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So, I realized that I have zero or little tolerance for stress, and get easily drained and stressed over little or mere things, so now, I watch what I do and what stresses me, the reason why I always sound it as a warning to people about me not liking stress, that's because it drains me mentally and physically and my face, eyes, and physical appearance, gives it away within a twinkle of an eye even if I don't tell someone.

No matter how hard I try to hard it and smile, people always know that I am stressed or being stressed even without me telling them, and I hate it when someone begins to enquire about what is happening to me or what is stressing me because I don't like to explain a lot.

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So, anytime I feel or can feel that I am under stress and stress and need to relieve myself of it, I just shut myself and my mind away from the world and focus on myself. Since I am the kind of person who loves her space and loves to be left alone, it is always easier for me to withdraw from the world and whatever is making me stressed out.

Not many people know that part of me, but all I do is, shut myself away from the world, away from whatever is stressing me out, or draining me out, and focus more on myself, I mean, most times, it could just be mentally, other times it could be physically and otherwise but at the stage, there is always a shutdown or withdrawal.

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I build a wall or shield around myself, blocking myself from the world and living in my head, I do that most of the time because I am a deep thinker, so my head does more of the talk than my mouth. I build my world away from everyone and shut myself out of the world, without anyone realizing what is happening.

I just begin to concentrate on myself and my mind more, now, the thing about this moment of mine is that I go into my spree mood of buying by impulse or buying whatever I crave or want at the moment. I find myself because I feel like I am drowning, so, I don't talk about how I am feeling to anyone because it's not my thing, I just continue to dig deeper and deeper finding myself until I can feel myself afloat and when I do, I am fine and out of my shell again.

I think why this technique, works for me, is because as I said, I am a deep thinker, always in my head, analyzing, and working out things in my head more before I even get to see them, so, it is easier to soul travel even amid people if I have to be able to relive myself of stress. My space, my safe space does the job of relieving me of any sort of stress that I am in or find myself.

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This is my entry to Ladies of Hive Community Contest #201

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Thank you for reading!!!

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