Stress

People cope with stress differently. Almost no one knows how to deal with it in a healthy way. Some of us stop eating or sleeping, some of us can't stop eating and just feel constantly tired no matter how much we sleep. Some of us lock ourselves in libraries or bedrooms, while some of us get out and try to forget it's even happening. Some people cram and others plan. Some of us feel more confident the more we revise, some of us just find more and more panic with each turning page. Some days we feel we need to keep constantly busy so we don't have time to feel stressed while some times we just crack and lie in state, hoping that maybe we can acquire knowledge by osmosis.
Sometimes stress is like an illness; dark circles under the eyes, shaking hands, problems focusing, exhaustion, lethargy, depression, pushing people away and spending hours in bed or unable to eat or sleep.
Other times its like a drug; frenzied bouts of energy and productivity, sped up speech, constant business and inability to connect with people because of manic mood swings and brutal crashdowns.
For something that crops up so very often in even the most average of lives, our ability to deal with the feeling of stress is almost non existent-we simply have to battle through, hoping that every so often the stress will pressurise us into greatness and not into something more desperate.