Stress, Anxiety, and Videotapes

Anxiety and Stress in One Family’s Relationships Hear Ye!  Hear Ye! All ye people of the town within the sound of my voice, please lend me your ears! I have reason to believe I am being watched and videoed.  Therefore, any resemblance between a bleary-eyed, crazy blond chick you may see on …

Continue reading

Stress. When Does Breaking Free of ‘Group Think’ Just Being Rude?

Stress. When Does Breaking Free of ‘Group Think’ Just Being Annoying? Stress relieving entry in progress on rudeness vs. independent thinking. Dateline:  Cabo San Jose, Baja California, Mexico. Pirates lived here.  Pirates live in the U.S., too. Before we let a teenager convince us that tattoos are her way of …

Continue reading

Stress and Doing Your Own Thinking

Immediate Stress Relief: Join a Gang… Dateline:  Stress in a New Mexico Maximum Security Prison, via television. Where would any of us end up if–during those needy barely adolescent years—we had no sense of self and no sense of a future?  And we were offered both for the mere orice of …

Continue reading

Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette

Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette Dateline:  Ladies’ room.  Big Rig Stress Management Truck Stop, Sonora, Texas. More thoughts on anxiety and fusion, that is, when the “togetherness force,” the push to go along with the group is winning over the “individuality force,” the push to operate separately from the emotional …

Continue reading

Stress: Woman Lost and Alone in Scary Alleyways of Istanbul

Stress on the Cool, Blue Mediterranean Stress and Group Think Invade Istanbul and Mexico City and a Cruise Ship in the Carribean, Part One Isn’t Taking a Vacation about Escaping Stress? The next three entries will be examples of ‘group think’ and pressure to conform from around the world. These situations …

Continue reading