Distracted

[pegkerr]

I will just say, vaguely, that there has been a lot of stress this week. I have been coping with it in a tried and true manner: reading much too much. I'm not depressed, though. I am just trying to disappear from the world and lose myself in an imaginary one. The urge is really extremely strong. I have been in a state where I don't want to stop reading for any reason at all, not work, not all the household stuff that needs to be done, not reading my LiveJournal friends page, not sleep, not anything. It is most annoying. And exhausting.

I am also eating too much and not exercising enough.

Comments

[kchew.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one who deals with stress that way. I don't remove the sources of my stress, but I get a lot of reading done.

I also get reallllllly crabby when hauled away from said reading.

Not the best of solutions, but there are far worse ways of dealing with stress.

Ditto :)

[origamilady.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm thats pretty much how I deal with stress myself
during one of the lower points in my now defunct marriage I read the entire Valdemar series in the space of about 2 weeks.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

I always did that, too, though these days I seem to cope by shutting down my forebrain altogether. What are you reading?

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Ah, sister! A book, the cat on my lap and some good comfort food and I'm all set. Been getting into bed at 8 and reading the past couple weeks at least 3 nights a week.

When the dreaded time change comes, maybe I'll get blackout curtains.

What ARE you reading?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Best drug in the world.

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

I do that sometimes. Although in my house it just makes stress worse as hubby gets extremely resentful of my reading time (even though I do it after everyone is asleep).

[dreadmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm completely in agreement with you here. I can't even read anything challenging right now; I need the literary equivalent of candy floss and chocolate. I've been reading bad fantasy novels and eating far too much junk food. It's tough when the world demands too much from you, especially when you're an introvert like me.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Even tho' you didn't ask it, right now I'm reading Elsewhere by Will Shetterly (and I'm not sure if I've gotten the title correct), and just before that was reading Random Acts Of Badness by Danny Bonaduce (sp?)

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I empathize. When others turn to the bottle and the 7 1/2 per cent solution, I turn to books.