How do you relieve the stress?

[jtward01]

What do you do to relieve the stress of dealing every day with people in life threatening situations? I used to rent a plane and go flying or spend a couple hours on the pistol range. Both require a lot of concentration and push other concerns to the side, at least for awhile.

[Guest]

I like to pretend I know how to play golf. Usually, 1/2hr on the driving range will do it for me.

[THE_DITCH_DOCTOR]

I pick fights on internet forums. I'm kidding.

No, seriously, I do research and go to school full-time in addition to working (which really isn't that stressful anymore since I now work at a radio station), so I spend my off hours sleeping. That's my way of relaxing.

[Summit]

ski, hike, bike, camp, fish, dive, rock climb, boat, white water kayak, photography

general alpinism

[kemt217]

reading,writing, crosstitch,playing with my kids,bubble baths, getting together for a BS session with friends, pool,darts.

About every three months or so a bunch of us from work, including the boss get together,head to the bar and drink a few and dance like fools.

I go flying with the hubby sometimes. I am so scared being up there I don't think of anything else.

[canadianmedic]

for down time i go hide in my workshop and build anamatronics and different props for halloween to scare the crap out of children one night a year. :twisted:

[vs-eh?]

drinking, gambling, womanizing....You know the use-sh...

Bart and Homer spot each other, and Tom draws

Bart away. ``You know better than to talk to strangers.'' Homer

explains that he's Bart's father. Tom stops in his tracks. ``His

father, the drunken gambler?'' Homer brightly answers, ``That's

right. And who might you be?''

[ERDoc]

Beating the ugly children in my neighborhood.

[Tibby]

I whine about it on my favorite EMT site

[jtward01]

I go flying with the hubby sometimes. I am so scared being up there I don't think of anything else.

Please, take some flying lessons. My wife used to be scared to fly with me but after she took some lessons she started really enjoying our flights together. You don't need to get a license, my wife didn't, she just took enough training so she really began to understand the physics of flight and accepted the fact that light airplanes don't just drop like bricks if the engine quits. Before I quit flying (health problems) she got to where she enjoyed stalls, spins, pulling two to three positive Gs and flying parabolic arcs where we'd get a few seconds of weightlessness.