Dealing w/ stress

[squishy41227]

Ive been trying to stay clean from codeine and unisom (like ive mentioned in the boards) and its been less then a week and I already gave in! Ive been stressing because I have 4 test next week, then finals after that, then I have to study safety stuff for the volunteer work I want to do at a hospital. Its so much studying for only a few weeks that I just wanted to get away from it all for awhile. So I ended up going back to my old way of dealing w/ every thing by taking unisom and codeine. I know when I was doing it, it was wrong but at that second nothing mattered I just had my mind set on getting away from everything. Thats the only thing that mattered. I just didnt care about nothing else. I dont think theres really any other way to cope w/ stress but does anyone have any ideas?

[Lexi85]

I remember stressing at the end of the semester during college, and it was CRAZY. I'd have five science finals all in the same day and they were all 100 questions each. Then I changed my major and things got a bit easier, but there was still that stress there. I started to pray. I wasn't really a spiritual person, and I still am not totally where I want to be, but many people have no idea how relieving it is to say a prayer out loud to God and ask for help. It really is a great feeling.

If praying isn't your cup of tea (and it's totally fine that it's not), then maybe you could see a professional? Sometimes all you need is somebody to talk to and to help you through everything. It makes all the difference.