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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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  • My ability has got worse over the years. I put this down to several things. 

    As I have aged, I have spent a longer amount of time masking, so my ability to cope has reduced.

    As I have got older there are more things to worry about, like health. Stress is worse for me when there are several issues at the same time. The one that triggers an issue might be something small like the Smart TV failing to function or needing resetting, or a change in the time of an appointment, as I have already planned the day.

    Life has become more complicated, simple tasks often now require ability to use technology or remembering one of a numerous amount of passwords, rather than just turning a knob or getting a piece of paper from my filing system. Everything is also a lot faster but my brain doesn't function quicker.

  • in reply to Homebird

    I agree about needing tech to do so much stuff, it is stressful, especially when you have learning difficulties or you want to ask a question and your question isn't amoung the FAQ's, in fact so bad are many FAQ's that I wonder who, over the age of 10 actually asks them?

    I dread having to get anything new thats tech related, even a washing machine is complicated and I dread having to get a new tv, there seem to be so many assumptions made, like everybody having streaming services and paying big wads of cash every month so as you can watch on demand and record stuff, they don't tell you that you need a subscription to do these things. The lack of physical shops so as you can ask questions and have a look at somethng to see if it will fit, you'll be able to use it, seem t be getting harder and harder to find and then if you do find one, you go to buy something and get told you have to buy it online anyway. I'm going to stop now a I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I agree about needing tech to do so much stuff, it is stressful, especially when you have learning difficulties or you want to ask a question and your question isn't amoung the FAQ's, in fact so bad are many FAQ's that I wonder who, over the age of 10 actually asks them?

    I dread having to get anything new thats tech related, even a washing machine is complicated and I dread having to get a new tv, there seem to be so many assumptions made, like everybody having streaming services and paying big wads of cash every month so as you can watch on demand and record stuff, they don't tell you that you need a subscription to do these things. The lack of physical shops so as you can ask questions and have a look at somethng to see if it will fit, you'll be able to use it, seem t be getting harder and harder to find and then if you do find one, you go to buy something and get told you have to buy it online anyway. I'm going to stop now a I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.

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