Is it ever a good thing to seek stress?

Question

I have found that going through hard times brings a large bounty when I have learned to "deal" with the reality that I had avoided.

I see more and more everyday that there are actions I can take to be a more adventurous guy.

Adventure to me covers all aspects of life. I can be adventurous by testing peoples emotions.

I can tease people and run as fast as I can, hoping they don't have a gun.

I can go to a mental shack and help with the patients.

Scarier still, my mind drifts into helping out the most depraved individuals until I share their view on life, and they share mine.

I really want to go to prison. Just to see if it really will change me, and if so how.

I have a view that being a masochist can be good for you if you are strong enough to recover

Answer 1

Interesting question, you definitely have my attention on this one. It's almost as if you are willing to push yourself to the utmost of your emotional and mental limits.

My answer to you is "yes"....it can be a good thing to seek stress, if that is the path that you have chosen as a way of learning more about yourself and others.

The part of this question that concerns me is that in order to go to prison, you would have to commit a crime. I would NOT advise you to do this. Can you get to know the people in prison some other way? Get a job in that industry or take on a volunteer position. Do some research, there must be other ways to get involved in that area of life.

I respect your right to want to get to know people who have walked difficult paths, but I would not become one of them as a way of finding yourself. Seek stress by interacting with whomever you choose, but ensure you are strong enough to bring a positive influence into the lives you touch.

Good luck to you!

Answer 2

You need to do some serious research on stress. Go to the American Psychological Association web site and look around. Real stress is a killer, some say a number one killer as it is a factor in the top two causes of death in the US.
You see more every day that you have not been adventurous.
You tease people, how daring.
Mental shack my a s s. And go to prison? For what, to be somebody's bit ch.
The masochist part fits the whole picture. Lame.
Forget stress, just keep living off your daddy's inheritance, pizz away all your money, then you will get a dose of stress when you have to work in the real world.

Answer 3

Thank you for sharing this :)

Have you considered the possibility of whole-heartedly committing your entire life (and heart and mind and soul) to Jesus Christ, and going wherever he leads, or points you?

That would be an adventure indeed ... and in many countries and situations, becoming a Christian can be stressful... (due to the reactions of anti-Christians).

Please commit your life to Jesus Christ. He loves you and died on the cross for you.

For a brief explanation of the gospel (of salvation through Jesus Christ), see http://www.godsci.org/gs/new/essence.html

Cordially,
John

Answer 4

relax

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 5

there is a difference of working better under stress and seeking danger.

Answer 6

Seek professional help now.