My mind has been very occupied lately due to the sudden happenings around me and I can say that I am stressed again. I don't want to experience this kind of feelings again in my life but something is bugging my mind till now. Maybe I'm just overthinking it but Nah I can say that my nightmare is back again. It's not easy to be this way and it's not a good experience to be in this situation. Many of you felt it before for sure and it's something we can agree on about the experience of having this.
There are a lot of signs wherein you can say a person is suffering from stress and some of the signs are popping up in me again. It may be a minor sign but what's happening to me are the major signs when an individual is going through with it. I suffered from it before so I know the signs already.
Just the past days of inactivity here due to the funerals we had, it seems that my mind can't really handle the load of happenings and it's affecting me greatly. I may sound so overacting but friends I need to voice out what's written in my deepest thoughts right now so please bear with this kind of article I'm making. I don't know where this article will go but I'll just share my experience over the past few days.
These are the symptoms I used as a basis that my mind can't hold the loads anymore.
First, I can't sleep peacefully at night.
No matter how I try to sleep soundly at night I just can't or should I say my mind didn't let me. I even stop drinking coffee for a while and started to drink milk instead in order for me to fall asleep at night. But it seems that it's not working well. It may affect me for an hour but after that, I can't sleep anymore till dawn. Yesterday I slept at 3 am already. I'm also trying my best to get the momentum of my sleep by listening to music that has a good melody but still, I can't.
Being attacked by insomnia at night is your worst enemy ever. That's based on me and I don't know about others. I don't really know what's going on already and my thoughts are all mixed up and it's causing me a lot of disadvantages now.
Second, I'm losing my appetite every meal.
It may be normal for a human to lose an appetite for one day or for a meal due to some reasons but it's not normal for a human to lose it for almost a month already. Even if the foods are my favorite, still I can't get the feeling to eat all those delicious foods in front of me. I eat a couple of spoons then later on my stomach will not let in that left food on my plate already so I stop eating.
Being not able to eat up a full meal a day can cause serious damage to our body and I'm worried about my body. It's undeniable that I lose weight already.
The third is that I easily get tired of whatever I do.
This is new to me again since I grew up here in the province and I'm used to every work here whether it's heavy or not. By that one, I'm wondering why I'm getting tired too easy for the past few days and I just remembered that I was like this before. Can you imagine that getting a glass of water only puts too much tiredness in my body? Just a short walk and I'm catching my breath already. This is a huge disadvantage to me since I want to do a lot of work here especially gardening, and planting some vegetables but my body won't allow it.
Being like this hinders me to perform in my best shape every day that's why there's a lot of work piled up here already. I can't just pass the task to someone else because I'm the one who should do it.
Those are just the signs I'm experiencing right now and I can say that it's putting a heavy toll on my body and mind. When someone experiences those especially those first-timers I'm sure they don't know what to do and the devil will fully consume their mind. I won over it before and I'm gonna win it over again.
One of the ways I'm doing to combat this situation of mine is blending myself into nature. I read an article before saying that trees give this calming sensation which helps our mind to calm down basically but there's more to it. By blending yourself with nature, you're diverting the negative thoughts into a positive one. You're excreting those toxins from your body and letting in some positive energy to your body.
So far I'm doing well with this method and to all of you who are suffering from stress now, you can try this one. I'm sure it will relieve your mind.
Author's note
No matter how your mind consumed you, we have this inner mind which is responsible for battling this kind of situation that's why until now we are still breathing and kicking. I know that battling stress may be hard but there are many ways to counter it. Some people eat desserts because when you spell it backward it's stressed haha but there's a science to it I think so eat some sweets then but don't overdo it.
I know that life is challenging as the day passes by but we are the challenger who will, later on, be the champion so let's live with it anyway and conquer it.
That's it for today and thank you once again for reading my article for today, see you next time.
Thank you for sparing some time with this, until the next one!
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