How do you cope?

[tanzap82]

I've noticed a lot of my friends and family struggling with the stresses of work recently, I just wondered how you all cope?

Me - 2 hours of walking a day
Brother - Drinking
Friend - hysterics

Are any of these reactions normal?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

They're certainly pretty common.

[dragon_wings]

How do I cope: computer, reading, talking to friends (via phone, texting, and Internet) and sleeping.

[tanzap82]

well as long as we are normal

[Elspeth]

currently those last to seem perfectly normal to me. And I seem to be doing them on a daily basis anymore.

Video gaming, lots and lots of video games. Especially World of Warcraft. Many gnomes die when i am in a bad mood

[Kanalah]

World of warcraft for me too.

I am a bear tank. I maul things to death.

[dragon_wings]

currently those last to seem perfectly normal to me. And I seem to be doing them on a daily basis anymore.

Video gaming, lots and lots of video games. Especially World of Warcraft. Many gnomes die when i am in a bad mood

World of warcraft for me too.

I am a bear tank. I maul things to death.

This. Which is why I *must* get an xbox 360 asap.

[Elspeth]

World of warcraft for me too.

I am a bear tank. I maul things to death.

Mage here. Either things burn or explode

Also a warrior which is just beat things until they don't get up.

[Salted Grump]

World of Tanks for me. Hop into a Maus and rampage over the countryside in a 190-ton supertank.

Also, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Guild Wars, Red Faction, And so on. Basically any game where I can squish human(oid)s.

[tanzap82]

ah good old violence, my second option is a shoot em up game (and pretend the ememy are work colleagues)

[pltkcelestial18]

world of warcraft here too.

and a patch just hit live today so that means many new heroics will be run....but what sucks is when I've had a bad day at work and I come home to log on and end up dealing with more a$$holes

currently those last to seem perfectly normal to me. And I seem to be doing them on a daily basis anymore.

Video gaming, lots and lots of video games. Especially World of Warcraft. Many gnomes die when i am in a bad mood

it's funnier when gnomes get punted

[SpaceCore]

Doing photography you spend all day being extremely cheerful and acting like a goofball to try to get kids to smile, so a lot of my coworker pull an immediate 180 once they're off of work and become extremely serious and downright grumpy.
I'm not that bothered by it so I don't have much to do to cope.

[Buglady]

I've noticed a lot of my friends and family struggling with the stresses of work recently, I just wondered how you all cope?

Me - 2 hours of walking a day
Brother - Drinking
Friend - hysterics

Are any of these reactions normal?

Yours sounds the healthiest and most useful although I suspect the other two may be more common in the general population.

My coping strategies are biking and books - both involve escape in one way or another

[tanzap82]

Healthy until i cripple myself anyway, still i can move onto gaming and reading.

Or maybe take up boxing or something to relieve all that excess stress

[dragon_wings]

Or maybe take up boxing or something to relieve all that excess stress

There's a reason I wanna take up a martial art. :P I'm one aggressive bitch when I'm not at work.