What do you do when you are so stressed you feel like you are about to explode!

Drink a beer and have a smoke.

Exercise until you drop.

Wow, there’s 2 answers on the opposite ends of the spectrum. LOL

I put on my walking shoes and walk my dog.

I get drunk.

No good advice, but it’s the only thing that I found that works, unfortunately.

Thank my lucky stars it’s over. Listen to loud angry music. Sing along if no one’s home. Call someone and tell them how horrible it was .(oh, wait, you just did that one! ;-))

I explode! into a towel

Wine.

One thing that always helps me is doing a hardcore workout.

Ask Fluther for help.

Not saying it is the best thing to do, but sometimes it helps. =)

When I get to the point of exploding I find a quiet spot away from everybody and I take my teddy bear and cry my stress away then I have some chocolate

whiskey

“I do not blow the coke,
I only smoke
SINSEMILLA”

I either take a valium, my preferred method, it’s just that simple… or I walk it off. I put on my sneakers and walk around the neighborhood at good clip until I’ve worked it all, or most of it, out or off.

I simply explode. Doesn’t everyone?

@Zen_Again you know Canadians just carry on…and on… on….

Addendum to my previous answer: I think it helps to figure out exactly how your anxiety and stress manifests itself. For me, while there is definitely a mental component, anxiety and stress very much manifests physically, in my body. My muscles tighten up, as you said, I feel like I’m going to explode and I do a lot of pacing. I had a doctor once who was unwilling to prescribe tranquilizers for me but offered to lend me some relaxation tapes and I basically told him to forget it. That if that was all he could offer, I would walk it off because when I’m stressed out and anxious I can’t sit still long enough to listen to relaxation tapes… but they certainly do work for some people.

Just do one thing, then there will be one more, and soon you will have finished what ever it is.

I take a very long, brisk walk. It’s preferable to go with someone and just try to forget about things and be silly!!!

Addendum 2: I just noticed, having not entirely read your question before, that you seem to be blaming some woman (the womans) and her “petty behavior” for some of your problems. That is stressing me out. I’m going to have to take a brisk walk now, either that or smack you in the head, and I’d rather not do that. Mellow, mellow, mellow… take a deep breath… it’s just not worth it…

Listening to music at full blast, espacially Marilyn Manson

For me the first step is to get as far away from other people as possible. Then I “blow it out” with strenuous exercise to the point of exhaustion, usually involving shouting and hitting something. Sometimes I go out back and start blasting targets, short-range rapid-fire stuff like blowing away chunks of firewood with a shotgun or large caliber handgun. After sessions like this, a hot shower and sleep. One of these two “therapies” will usually put my head on straight again. Note: I live in a remote area and the gunplay poses no threat to anyone. If these don’t work, the fallback is Valium and/or alcohol.

I usually do nothing. I go on with my daily routine. If I wait long enough the feeling of wanting to explode will pass.

When i feel like that i go to the beach, it calms better than anything else, even if it’s two or three in the morning, even if i’m by myself. It’s the feel of the damp sand beneath my feet, the sound of the waves and seagulls and the salty smell of the air; nothing’s better than that in the world, at least for me…

Soooooooo jealous of the waves!!!!

Long-term strategy: build emotional firewalls.

Short-term strategy: intense exercise.

lmao @lillycoyote !

Exercise is helpful to me (playing basketball, mainly). But the really indispensable stress relief is meditation. My life has been very stressful over the last couple of years, without that practice I think I would have probably blown all my gaskets.

i usually just give in and explode….

Breathe!

Take a warm bath with nice-smelling bath products.

I think I’ll find out soon.

Sleep.

hit the pillow

I stop talking to the dumb ass in the next cube.

Sleep. It’s my general defense mechanism.

Punch a pillow (I try to stay away from the dry wall :)), go for a run, yell out a string of obscenities, clean as though I were MACHINE. Eat Nutella by the tablespoonful.

Is Nutella good??? I have never tried it.

@King_of_Sexytown it’s hazelnut/chocolately goodness. You should give it a try. :)

Go to the gym, lift some heavy weights until you’re completely drenched in sweat.

Go for a walk, get away, close my office door . . . it depends where I am, but either way I just need to get away by myself for a little while, then I’m fine.

I skipped school or ask for the day off and get a doctor to give you a time off doctors note.

Listen to music. When my car worked. Go for a drive in the middle of nowhere and put the windows up and yell. Drink and kvetch with my friends.