Personal Alert Levels and the book and video therapies
My anxiety levels (5 being the highest) and the books, movies, and TV series I use to deal with the dread/prevent myself from going completely bonkers.
1: Tranquil
Detective novels
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul
Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot
2: Ordinary, everyday tension
Seinfeld
Kate Atkinson novels
Early Cameron Crowe movies (Say Anything, Almost Famous)
3: Worrying over nothing in particular but unable to stop
The Avengers
Preston Sturges screwball comedies (The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels)
P.G. Wodehouse books
4: Screaming inside
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Once and Future King
5: Screaming outside
Wouldn’t be able to hear the movie or myself.
What are your anxiety alert levels?
Now watching: Buffy Season 1
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May 25th, 2017 at 10:21
I listen to Bjork’s Homogenic or Vespertine albums if I want to escape reality. All her albums are magical in that way. I read Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon when I hate everything.
May 26th, 2017 at 17:14
I’m so stressed that I went back to stress level 1. I feel like an inter-galactic spaceship being bombarded on all sides in an Atari game. I can’t even write. I’m back to reading trashy books by the dozen, all those happy ever after insta-love affairs. Not those YA books that take forever just to describe rain, though – I’d rather slit my wrists. I also play Plants vs. Zombies 1 Survival mode because I can’t lose, even though I pretend that it’s hard.
May 29th, 2017 at 21:38
-1 – life is so grand, I feel like I can achieve anything I put my mind into. I love my family I love my friends. I am a financially responsible adult who just signed up for another insurance policy! I’ve just lost another 3 pounds! howtobemepo?!
0 – hum num num num. hahaha jejemons. hahaha politicians. hahaha inefficient people. let’s call it a day and go exercise / bingewatch netflix!
1 – xxx is so stupid. this process is pointless. why is my boss micromanaging me? what was my mother thinking rearranging my pile of papers? where is that billing statement / previously inconsequential piece of paper that suddenly became the axis around which my universe revolves?!?
2 – tangina! why did xxx get promoted? when will it be my turn?!? why do i need to support my mom in her old age?! why wasnt I born a Sy or a Gokongwei?!? why can’t i have more fun?!?
3 – what have I been doing with my life!?soon my job will be taken over by robots!!!! or worse xxx will be my boss! the jejemons worshiping du30 will be running this country in a year… what the fuck is gonna happen to my investments?!? should I just be a tnt in norway? what’s the point of exercising if I keep gaining weight?!?
thankfully there are more 0 and -1 days than others. still very crappy whenever Im at a 2 or 3..
May 31st, 2017 at 20:09
I think this video can help to lessen anxiety. Istanbul’s beauty and her residents’ gestures are beautifully captured in slow motion.
https://vimeo.com/219511692