Embracing the stress: handling the cause of your stress through effort, diet, therapy, and possibly medication (properly prescribed).

Fighting the stress: ignoring the source, procrastinating the solutions, self medication, toxic behavior towards others as if that’s somehow gonna help.

Edit: I would like to add that I have anxiety, and it’s very hard to do all the stuff to deal with it. I go to therapy, I take my medication on time, and I try to be overall healthy. I fail. A lot. I just don’t give up no matter how much I want to some days.

If you’re struggling with any of these things there are sources to help you! 988 is the crisis hotline in the USA. Betterhelp is a fairly affordable therapy option, and there are tons of clinics that offer sliding scales to help get you the help you need and deserve on the budget you have.