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Stressed? These 19 Activities Can Help You Feel Better

The Doctor Weighs In
8 min readMar 22, 2019

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By: Daniela McVickers

Feeling stressed? Here are 19 engaging activities that can help relieve your symptoms and regain some balance in your life.

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Stress can take over your life. No matter where it comes from, it’s always necessary to eliminate it from your life as soon as it starts to become a problem.

Sometimes stress comes and goes; it’ll appear and perhaps push you to meet your deadline or encourage you to work harder. You might be one of those “I work better under stress” type of people, in fact, stress is an instinct, giving us the “fight or flight” response.

However, chronic stress can be detrimental to your life. Giving you sleeping problems, headaches, a weakened immune system, and constant tense muscles.

Here are some activities you can try out for yourself, hopefully, they’ll take some of the stress away and help you to regain balance in your life.

1. Exercise the stress away

Sometimes all you need to get the pressure out of your life is to get the blood pumping. Think of it was “sweating the stress away.”

Exercise has multiple benefits, helping with your mental state, putting everything into perspective, and making you feel a lot more grounded.

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