Stress and Anxiety: How Not to Become a Sheep Next to a "Wolf"

An Experiment About Stress and Fear

There was an experiment: a sheep 🐑 and a wolf 🐺 were placed in neighboring cages. The wolf could not harm the sheep; she was fed, given water, and taken care of.
But the sheep constantly saw the predator, lived in fear — and after a month, she died.
Not from disease, but from stress.

 

Generated image⚡ This shows how chronic anxiety and stress can destroy the body even without real danger.

Our "Wolves" Today — News and Social Media

Today we live in a similar situation. Our "wolves" are the news and social networks. Headlines, panic, war chronicles.
We are fed, we have a roof over our heads, yet the brain lives as if danger is just two steps away.

But if we continue to consume anxious content, we build a prison in our minds.

Viktor Frankl on How to Survive Stress

The famous Austrian psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, who survived the concentration camps and the Holocaust, wrote in his book “Man’s Search for Meaning”:

  • The first to die were those who believed it would end soon.

  • The second were those who thought it would never end.

  • Those who survived were the ones who found meaning in life.

This is a universal truth: finding meaning helps to survive any crisis.

How to Cope with Stress and Anxiety: A Psychotherapist’s Advice

Here is my friendly and professional advice:

  • limit news and social media,

  • read books 📚,

  • paint 🎨,

  • dance 💃,

  • walk by the sea 🌊,

  • talk with friends ☕,

  • make love (at least with yourself 😉).

Stay away from toxic and negative things — they don’t heal, they only destroy.

Final Note

✨ Life goes on. Each of us has a meaning, a reason to wake up in the morning.
Find your meaning and choose joy, not stress.