Learning how to cope with stress has always been a huge struggle for me.  The benefit of taking the effexor and having the extra anti-anxiety medication is that they seem to dull those feelings of stress.  The draw back of taking the effexor and having the extra anti-anxiety medication is that they seem to dull those feelings of stress.  Ha! Ha! Ha!  While it is good to some extent that those feelings of stress are dulled, because they have taken away that constant feeling of stress and worry that I always seemed to have.  However, I still need to learn how to cope with stress better.  At some point, I am going to encounter a situation that is extremely stressful, much more so than the medications alone can handle.

What kind of things do ya’ll do to cope with stressful situations?  I figure there are enough of you who read this blog now, that there has to be some good coping techniques that ya’ll have that you would not mind sharing with me.