Saturday, May 22, 2010

Stress

I don't know why I feel so exhausted today, I didn't even run as much as I usually do. Even as I'm typing this I'm lying with my face down because I don't have enough energy to look up at the screen. My theory is that because I haven't been eating much lately I don't have enough energy to run at the gym. Oh well, I just have to wait a few more days and all of the stress will be over with and I can eat again. Thank goodness.

What I think is really strange is the fact that whenever I'm stressed, I don't eat. The majority of the people that I've spoken with upon this topic tell me that when they stress out, if they're depressed, or if they have any type of negative emotion, they eat. I learned a while back that eating makes people happy because it releases endorphins, the natural happy chemical, in the mind and it makes you feel good in general. So why don't I eat when I'm stressed out or unhappy? I actually don't know the answer to this either... probably because I'm an alien. I always take out my emotions on the piano or guitar.

I think it really depends on the person. Everyone has something that they do when they're stressing out. Well, whatever works for you, as long as you're not cutting yourself or something along the lines of that.

I don't know what has been wrong with me lately. Last week as I was brushing my teeth I noticed that I had a giant round "thing" protruding out of my gums. It was about the size of a single yogo and it was really hard when I tried to push it so I freaked out because I thought I had some kind of oral cancer. I called my dentist the next day and I asked him if I needed to get surgery on that in addition to the surgery that I must receive for my stress-related gum infection. He responded and told me that because I seem to be under a lot of stress at the moment, things like this happen. Apparently, the bump in my mouth is just another stress related consequence and it will probably go away in a week or so. Guess what? It just popped as I was typing. Now it won't stop bleeding. Delicious. What's strange is the fact that mentally, I don't feel like I'm under so much stress that I would have any type of physical problem. Unfortunately, my body begs to differ.

study & blow bubbles <3

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