What do you use as a stress reliever?

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Though not so much as stress, but as a remedy for overstimulation, I tend to use heavy metal objects, my stim toys, guns (for target practice), music, feline companions and wearing body armor (weight and tightness on my torso/sides). On occasion, I will practice maneuvers with my swords, which also provides a decent workout.

Read a book with music on in the background. Try and give your mind two things to do at the same time, weird I know, but it helps to dilute whatever it is that’s stressing out your mind.

You can also stick some headphones on and listen to whatever song helps to calm you down. I listen to the same song repeatedly; I have since I was a young child. It helps to slow my mind down to a better level..

I have never trusted drugs. I live with anxiety and depression, I would rather untangle my own web than let some quack proscribe me sedatives and become addicted.

Me, I usually just go for a walk and mumble out my anger.

Petting my cat

Music is my goto stress reliever. Often slow, somewhat melancholic stuff helps me relax and forget about the world around me.

Music,, a walk out side,, working in the yard,, pretty much anything involving physical exertion.

petting one of my cats
mantras - I use them with prayer beads and sometimes just fingering the beads helps
poetry - there is something about reading Mary Oliver's poetry about nature that relaxes me
knitting
washing the dishes or chopping vegetables - both can be meditative
watching clouds - if there are clouds
sitting outside and watching the birds, feeling the breeze, hearing the trees rustle

Marijuana, but if the legal status worries you then perhaps passionflower its an herb/flower with relaxing effects. Or they make tea blends with passionflower, chamomile and other relaxing herbs I've so far only tried it that way so not sure what passionflower alone would do. But yeah as far as I know there are quite a few legal herbs that can help with stress.

I find listening to music helpful as well.

Bejeweled Blitz!

verbena is useful - and very good in warm milk

Solitude + gaming. Works like a charm. It doesn't matter how strong the stress might be - it always melts away and disappears without a trace.

Strenuous exercise works for me. There's a hill that's nearly 300 metres above sea level near my place. Climbing that thing leaves no room for any other thought but getting to the top. Being outside in the fresh air, surrounded by trees, also helps, and the view from the top is a knockout.