Stress Lucy Macfarlan

I'm naturally a pretty high stress person, I have been for my whole life. Whenever school gets hard or I have a lot of stuff that I have to get done I totally stress myself out about it. Usually I get over it by talking myself down and making a tangible list of things that I have to do in order to aleviate that stress. This year however I've done a really terrible job of handling how busy I am. For the past couple weeks, I've been getting to school at 6:30 in the morning to go to Mr. Snow's review sessions so I can be better prepared for the APUSH test, this of course means that I have to get up earlier and therefore have less time to sleep, this isn't helping my stress level. My body totally betrays me whenever I'm stressed. I can't sleep, I get a terrible stomach ache, and all I want to eat is ice cream. Of course, due to this lack of sleep and adequate nutrition, I've lost about 10 pounds in the past few weeks. Whenever I get stressed I have a tendency to become sort of obsessed with how much I weigh, I don't know why but I always have. It's not like I care how high or low it is, I just have a weird thing about knowing what it is. Recently my body has decided that the best way to handle the stress is to run a fever for three days so that's been cool. To manage stress I do all of the normal stuff like yoga, meditations, deep breathing, etc. but when you're this stressed sometimes the only thing to do is to spend a day in bed asleep and forget about how much you have to do for a little while.