Need Some Help With Stress...

[Primal]

Hey all, just got back from the doc. I talked to him about the symptoms I've been having lately (growling stomach, not being able to eat much, constant stomach pain e.c.t.). My father and my doctor are close friends so he knew of my lifestyle of course. He said the symptoms sounded a lot like IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) which I had predicted he would say after doing some research on the topic before hand. He sent me off to get an ultrasound and some blood work done which I am eagerly awaiting (hopeful that's it's not anything worse). He told me I might need some probiotics too after I told him that I don't eat or drink much dairy. Before leaving however, he told me that a lot of this was probably just from stress and he advised me to take quick stress test. Well I just did the test and uh... apparently I'm almost 2.5x more stressed than the average person which again, doesn't come as a surprise to me.

Lately I've been so stressed about a thousand things it seems and the list doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. I think it's really bad when your friends tell you work to hard and on top of that your friends parents are emailing you telling you that you work to hard and need a break. :rotflmao This pent up stress has done wonders for me in the gym, I've hit so many new PR's in the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I am having so much trouble sleeping that it almost doesn't make up for it; I need to resort to pills now to even close my eyes. On top of this, I can't eat as much food, and although this isn't that big of a deal now (I'm still cutting for summer), I'm worried that if this problem continues I won't be able to bulk up in the following months.

Most of this stress is from girl problems, university and of course not having my family or friends to talk too. I know a lot of you guys are older on here and I'm positive you guys are under just as much or more stress than I am with jobs and families and such. I know it's a dumb problem, but it is evident that my method of working through stress is not working and needs to be adjusted. So, how do you guys deal with stress? Any particular methods that you found particularly helpful throughout rough times? Any thoughts or info would be really appreciated! :D Thanks!

-Primal

[cog]

Make sure your B vitamins are up to snuff.Maybe time for a new gf?

[TT Eric]

You may not eat lots of dairies, but what about gluten ?

Eric

[Primal]

Make sure your B vitamins are up to snuff.Maybe time for a new gf?

Vitamin B should be good, I take a multi-vitamin on top of eating some good fruits and vegetables. Hahaha, I need a gf that's the problem but stuffs pretty complicated at the moment. I should be fine for gluten too, I eat my ground beef in wraps all the time and on top of that I make salmon sandwiches ever 2 days or so. I talked to the doc about about a food tolerance and he said it could happen.

-Primal

[TT Eric]

Why you say you should be fine ? Have you tried taking off pasteurized/homogenized dairies and all gluten for at least a month to see ? Those are the 2 biggest pro-inflammatory food. I've stopped at 40 y/o and wow the difference in health...

Eric

[Primal]

Why you say you should be fine ? Have you tried taking off pasteurized/homogenized dairies and all gluten for at least a month to see ? Those are the 2 biggest pro-inflammatory food. I've stopped at 40 y/o and wow the difference in health...

Eric

Haven't drank any milk since October. I don't think it's a food or supplement issue to be honest, I am fairly sure my diet and I'm doing well with it so far. It's just the stress that's really killing me at the moment.

-Primal

[TT Eric]

Maybe it's time to clean-up your life, prioritize and drop off the non essential. Do what you want and like, you don't need to go out and drink to make friends, real friends will take you as you are, it's better to have very few good friends then lots of phoney that you have to impress, entertain or do stuff that is not you to keep them interested. If you don't like to go out and drink why would do it ? To get a girl that does something you don't like in the first place ? You are 18, yes hormones are high, but don't stress with girl's stuff, do your things and the rest will follow. Same as friendship for girls, you better found ONE good then plenty of anything else. The less you f@ck around, the less trouble/baggage/link/regrets you'll carry. Do the stuff you like and you'll find your girl in that right context, not a fake environment you don't like.

Build a schedule/routine, eat at the same hours, go to bed at the same hours, train at the same hours, study at the same hours. Be disciplined! If your life is heretic and you go out late the week-ends, stay on computer until 3AM, you will suffer the whole week because of that, it's no good. Look at your life in the big picture, think of you older and look at your actual life in that perspective. Many of the details you are in now will not matter latter, most people in your actual social life will not be part of your future. Today if I look at me, when I was 18 y/o, I was training, studying, working and cogitate about life, I had a few good friends that are still my friends, the rest are details.

Eric

[Praetorian]

First off it may be IBS yes....i went through that when I first moved to Toronto and started a job with IBM. Stress triggers it and for me it turned into constipation. I was able to control it by avoiding wheat and pasta (gluten) as well as dairy. I also created a schedule as Eric says and followed it to a T. The only deviation would be going out on weekends. There are also many things you can do to help control stress. First off if your gf is causing more stress then I would have to rally think why you are with her...you are young and there is plenty of time for relationships with women...i would concentrate on school and getting your life and health in order...have fun....you are too young to stress.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/20-tips-to-tame-your-stress/000102


Also get a good probiotic and take it twice daily on an empty stomach....before bed and before breakfast...anything above 10 billion units per capsule and make sure to keep it refrigerated.

P

[Primal]

Thanks guys for the thoughts, I'm definitely going to get a good probiotic. Hopefully it'll do some good. I have a schedule and I follow it every day except these days that's being interrupted by some girl that keeps texting me up till 3 in the morning. That's a different story all in itself and I'm looking into talking to her soon and getting all this stuff figured out. No she's not a gf haha, just a good friend. I know this sounds bad to say, but it makes me feel better that someones gone through similar symptoms and dealt with it, at the moment everything seems quite overwhelming... Thanks for the list, I'll be sure to try the techniques listed. Thank you again!

-Primal

[Praetorian]

Turn your phone off at 11pm and go to bed...end of story!

P

[Primal]

Turn your phone off at 11pm and go to bed...end of story!

P

Hahaha! I wish it was that simple! I'm gonna talk to her and get some stuff figured out, including this. It's destroying my training and I can't go crazy on the weights when I'm tired!!

-Primal