Plaidophile: How to reduce stress

February 10, 2012

How to reduce stress (geekery, health)

by fluffy at 11:12 AM

I have been a lot less stressed ever since making the following changes in my lifestyle:

Installing Comment Blocker on Firefox (and Shut Up on Chrome, although I'm back to Firefox full-time)
Turning off all email notifications for general-purpose comment systems (Disqus, TypePad, etc.) that I can
Sending all emails from comment systems that can't have notifications disabled (YouTube, Blogger, etc.) directly to the trash
Blocking/ignoring/gagging people on IRC and MUCKs who infuriate me
Not following blogs, LJs, etc. that have turned into nothing but whining or trolling
Not following webcomics that have stopped being entertaining
When something still manages to get me angry, taking a deep breath and thinking about how little it matters

Comments

#14679 Smarasderagd

02/10/2012 12:51 pm

Sound practice, in my experience.

#14680 Ostrich

02/10/2012 01:12 pm

Sound practice, I concur. If I do anything to stress or upset you, please let me know. I may or may not change (you and I will never see eye to eye on some things, I'm sure), but it's not my aim to make things worse for you. I want you to be happy. Best wishes.

#14681 fluffy

02/10/2012 02:17 pm

I've learned to just ignore your ultra-Right-leaning LJ entries. Smile

The blogs I unfollowed were more along the lines of technology trolling or going on and on about a failed relationship painted in a way that was VERY unfair to the other person.

#14682 Linktoreality 02/10/2012 03:08 pm

Out of curiosity, which webcomics have you deemed no longer entertaining to you?

#14683 fluffy

02/10/2012 03:14 pm

XKCD a long time ago, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal a bit after that, and Schlock Mercenary and The Oatmeal very recently. Probably a few others that I forget.

#14684 Ostrich

02/10/2012 04:35 pm

fluffy:

I've learned to just ignore your ultra-Right-leaning LJ entries.

I'm a Moderate, actually Smile

#14685 fluffy

02/10/2012 05:23 pm

Not from where I'm standing!

#14686 Ostrich

02/10/2012 05:49 pm

fluffy:

Not from where I'm standing!

You're standing in Pelosi's district!

#14687 fluffy

02/10/2012 05:57 pm

Yes, but compared to most of San Francisco, I'm a moderate.

#14702 dancing 02/25/2012 10:13 pm

Yay for identifying all those potential causes of stress and avoiding them. Keep it up and hoping you are on the way to feeling better in both mind and body!