Heart Attack Support Group
Heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. It occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death and scarring of the local heart tissue.
As most of us know stress management is key for our recovery as heart patients. Unfortunately I've learned what happens when we don't in the forms of depression, anxiety, and panic attacks 5 years post heart attack. So how do you deal with stress? Rant and rave or peace and calm.
I borrowed this from a friend on the depression forum:
Your choice......Sometimes we rant & rave to get "stuff" off our chest and out of our mind, let out the steam !!!!!!! Sometimes it's a peaceful day. Maybe you're somewhere in between.
Me.......... Ranting and raving is what kind of got me into this mess. I would get all worked up about problems and life situations and no one was listening or doing anything.
So, peace and quiet is the way for me now. No one is still listening or doing anything but at least I am calm:)
My therapist gave me an analogy and said to think of it as, "waves crashing against the rocks versus letting the waves roll in and out naturally" One is so violent and the other so calming
You............
I borrowed this from a friend on the depression forum:
Your choice......Sometimes we rant & rave to get "stuff" off our chest and out of our mind, let out the steam !!!!!!! Sometimes it's a peaceful day. Maybe you're somewhere in between.
Me.......... Ranting and raving is what kind of got me into this mess. I would get all worked up about problems and life situations and no one was listening or doing anything.
So, peace and quiet is the way for me now. No one is still listening or doing anything but at least I am calm:)
My therapist gave me an analogy and said to think of it as, "waves crashing against the rocks versus letting the waves roll in and out naturally" One is so violent and the other so calming
You............
What a good post! I like the idea of sharing stress relief; it will be very interesting to see what each of us finds successful.
I journal. I started on DS actually. I'd never been a journaler or diary keeper before. However, I found the journal feature here to be a great help in letting out feelings, both good and bad, although usually bad is what brings me to it. I have recently been keeping a hard copy journal (in a real book!) and have found it to be very useful, too. There are things there I don't want to share with anyone except me and God, and while DS has a feature so that no one can see my journal entries except me, I like writing with a pencil. I like the way the lead drags across the paper, I like the way it feels in my hands. Maybe I like that I get stuff off my chest and I feel something as the pencil connects with the paper. I always write in pencil, never in pen. I don't get the same sensation with a pen.
Can't wait to hear what others find helpful.
Pam
Regards,
Just Joe