Breaking points. How much can a person take? It's a personal measurement, I'm sure. Some take more than others. One person's flip out is another persons small nuisance.
Personally I feel that I have a high breaking point. Then I get PMS and the cat getting underfoot is, all of a sudden, reason to rant every dirty word I know. I also think I handle stress pretty well, for the most part. Emergency situations....got those down pat. I get faint after the fact, but during that "superman" moment, I'm the go to girl.
I'm even good in handling other people's flights of panic. I can mediate, break up altercations, or talk someone down. I even got a good friend to therapy who I thought was suicidal. That takes some wrangling!
When you step out of your life for a minute, and you look at all the things life throws at you, it's never as bad as someone else's problems. But it seem like the end of the world sometimes.
Kind of like that dream, that makes you sweat and kick your feet. You wake up with a start, your heart pounding out of your chest, your eyes moist from tears. Yet when you remember the dream later, it was so silly and non-scary, you can't imagine why you were so scared. But at the time, you were so horrified, it caused physical reactions in your body.
They say, 'Stress is a killer'.
Let's hope "they" don't know what they are talking about.
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