Don’t repress them, just put them in a nice video game

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.

I think this is more akin to anxiety here. If your job is adding to your anxiety, or your friends, or your habits, or what have you… yes, remove the stressors from your life wherever reasonable (no throwing your baby in the trash!!!).

Sometimes life is just stressful, responsibilities pile up, and you can’t make them disappear. In that case ignoring or abandoning your responsibilities is guaranteed to give you more stress later on. You can abandon your responsibilities, they won’t abandon you (relationships aside >_>).

I’d say I agree that you need to “eliminate it” though. Eliminate it through direct and deliberate confrontation, which in the case of your job would be finding a better job.