How do you handle stress?

RallyPoint News — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:14:58 -0500

The past year has been challenging for many of us. How have you reduced stress or worry? How are your friends and family managing their stress?

While stress is a normal part of the human experience, long-term stress can negatively impact our health, outlook, and sense of well-being. If you feel like the previous ways you've reduced stress are not working, it may be time to try something new.

This free, online resource can help. Through brief, self-paced lessons, learn new techniques to manage stress at your own pace whenever you need help.

This educational course was created by mental health experts at Cohen Veterans Network (CVN) and is available at no cost to all veterans, service members, and military family members - CONUS and OCONUS.

Response by Lt Col Charlie Brown made Feb 22 at 2021 1:09 PM

Lt Col Charlie Brown — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:09:56 -0500

Excellent suggestions. Everyone needs safe ways to destress

Response by PVT Mark Zehner made Feb 23 at 2021 10:57 AM

PVT Mark Zehner — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:57:18 -0500

Great information!

Response by SFC Melvin Brandenburg made Feb 23 at 2021 2:51 PM

SFC Melvin Brandenburg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:51:33 -0500

Lots of alcohol and bad decisions

Response by Wayne Soares made Mar 5 at 2021 8:47 PM

Wayne Soares — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:47:52 -0500

Great share

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Mar 8 at 2021 9:27 PM

MAJ Ken Landgren — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:27:19 -0500

My strategy for stress, I use a firing range as an analogy. Imagine all the targets are stressors and they all pop up at the same time. What is your fire pattern? You shoot the closest one first because it is the most dangerous, then u move to further targets. I am saying u can’t hit all the targets at once. Prioritize your stressors. You will find that some stressors are too far to hit now so put them on the back burner. I highly recommend this approach because I do know how it feels to have an accumulation of a lot of stressors at one time. It feels overwhelming.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Mar 13 at 2021 4:18 PM

MAJ Ken Landgren — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:18:07 -0500

It's human nature to create an amalgamation of stress. That is the wrong approach. Prioritize your stressors like targets on the battlefield. Hit the closest one first and move on to a further target.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2021 1:48 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:48:15 -0400

I rarely get "over stressed" but I like varying amounts of stress in my day to day. It helps me focus. I unwind with a fishing rod, my dog, a tent, and a drink (or many).