Stress and Relationships

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Stress is an everyday part of life for everyone. People tend to handle this stress in different ways. Some ways work and others just make the problem worse. The one way that makes things a lot worse than they were is when you use drugs and alcohol to cover up your feelings and stress. People think that just because they forget about the problem or get it off their mind that the problem is gone. This is completely wrong. When you use drugs and alcohol to conceal deeper problems then you are only putting off the inevitable. Problems are meant to be solved not pushed away. The worst thing you can do when something is bothering you is to go get high and try to forget about it cause when you do this all you are doing is giving the problem more time to fester in your head and you end up making a bigger deal out of it than it was to begin with. When a problem is put off long enough it can start to cause problems for other people around you. And the people around you are the ones you really need to be there cause the only way to truly solve a problem is to sit down and assess what can be done to make the problem better or to fix it all together. If you start to cause problems for the people around you then you have no one to help you get through it all cause they all just see you as a damper on their lives. So no matter what you should never turn to drugs to try to solve your problems.

When one of my friends found out that he had over slept that Sunday morning he really didn’t realize how much trouble that three minutes would cause him. He never thought that his partying would cost him as much as it did in the end. He and his girlfriend of the time had been fighting daily for the past few days about how he was always fucked up in one wa...

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...ere is more to it than that.” He argued with her for a few minutes about how that was the real reason. The more they talked about it the more annoyed she seemed to get. She finally got annoyed enough and rolled over in the seat and look away from him. While she was looking away he sat there and looked at her with a smile on his face thinking about how he was starting to get a crush on her. As he thought about this he decided that he was just going to be completely honest with her and tell her the real reason. He asked her if she wanted to know the real honest reason. She said yes and rolled back over and looked at him. He told her that the reason he did it was to hide the unhappiness that he felt and to try and hide the problems he had. As he said that she looked at him and said “Greg, I already knew that just from the way you were acting when I asked you that.”

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