Stress shuts me down. The right amount of stress is good. It gets me to act. Too much will make me freeze. The meds would help the bad stress but then I loose the good stress. That's why I don't like to take them for very long. I used to do DBA work and that is the most stressful IT job there is. I can actually handle it pretty well in the moment. It's just when I go home I shut down and nothing else gets done. I have since scaled back my career. I don't feel too bad about that because I want to be a FT artist but at one point I had a very promising career. Now most of my former peers have national reputations in the field. The last nail on that career came two months ago when I turned down a job I would have drooled for a few years ago for a fairly boring but 9-5 with no laptop job. I don't even have access to email from home. Kind of mixed feelings about that. I digress.

Back to the topic... I don't do meditation very well but active mindful practice is the best thing for my stress. It isn't just a break. It changes how I react to things in my daily life. It has to be active and regular though.

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