Weekly Poll: What Are Your Unhealthy Responses to Stress?
Monday August 7, 2006
Stress can lead to some bad habits. Aside from the major negative responses to stress that obviously require professional intervention, there are some very common unhealthy responses that many of us find ourselves falling prey to now and then, or even on a regular basis. This poll, which allows you to give multiple answers, invites you to share the unhealthy habits that seem to becon you when you're under stress. (If your habit of choice isn't listed here--or even if it is--you can post a comment about it by clicking the 'comments' link below, or you can post in the forum.)

I engage in escapist activities to deal with stress…it is a more extreme and destructive coping method I use when everything becomes too much.
stress makes me so irritating