Tag: coping with stress
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Finding Ways To Turn The Volume Down
Tony was struggling for a while with accidentally holding down the side volume buttons on his kindle for too long, which would mute his device. His brain takes longer to get his muscles to learn how to replicate motions he sees (it is not a matter of understanding, his brain knows what it wants the…
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When The Stress Won’t Stop
I had just fled my parents’ bedroom when I heard the click, and then my mother scream– “He’s got a gun, run!” My mother’s fourth (and current) husband, had flown into a rage, flinging and destroying items (a boombox became the first casualty) because I wouldn’t say I loved him when he asked if I…