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Your tolerance to stress

Geeky Gothic Guy

Just curious as to whether other peoples tolerances to stress have improved as they’ve gotten older, or got worse. I feel mines got worse. I’m also a lot less tolerant with things. Simple things seem to stress me out more than when I was younger. What’s everyone’s else’s experience with stress tolerance? 

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  • I think it is more down to how stressed you are to start with. If your baseline is high you have little room for more.

    If you are close to burn out you also lose perspective.

    If you are able to manage yourself, keeps things in perspective, not take stuff too seriously (not much is really life or death), be kind to yourself, take breaks, pay attention to your feelings, etc. You can manage.

    What I may be less good at is chronic long term stress, I seem less good as I've got older, but then it's not good for anyone and I put myself under too much pressure. I have recently learnt to let go and not feel guilty.

    So I think it is mostly in the mind.

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  • I think it is more down to how stressed you are to start with. If your baseline is high you have little room for more.

    If you are close to burn out you also lose perspective.

    If you are able to manage yourself, keeps things in perspective, not take stuff too seriously (not much is really life or death), be kind to yourself, take breaks, pay attention to your feelings, etc. You can manage.

    What I may be less good at is chronic long term stress, I seem less good as I've got older, but then it's not good for anyone and I put myself under too much pressure. I have recently learnt to let go and not feel guilty.

    So I think it is mostly in the mind.

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