Metadata
- Author: Patricia E Zurita Ona
- Full Title:: How to Tolerate Annoying Things
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-respond-to-annoying-things-with-greater-ease?utm_source=rss-feed
- Read date:: 2025-11-03
Highlights
Research suggests that accumulated stressors might take a toll in other ways too. For example, a study in the 1980s found that people who experience more daily hassles report greater fatigue, headaches, and gastrointestinal symptoms. More recently, researchers have shown that increased stress and hassles significantly predicted the consumption of high-fat and high-sugar snack foods, with implications for physical health. And clinical researchers found that people who reported high levels of daily hassles were significantly more likely to develop generalised anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder or panic disorder over a follow-up period of several years. (View Highlight)
It’s natural to want to fix or undo the annoyances you encounter. But insisting that a frustrating experience shouldn’t have happened doesn’t change that it did happen. What it does do is deepen your stress. It’s like tugging on a locked door: tiring and ineffective. That’s why you need radical acceptance. (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2025-11-04
Your values matter when you have annoying experiences because they give you a direction to move in. (View Highlight)
If you’re struggling with setting a ‘smart’ thermostat at home, you might remind yourself that you value being curious, and then decide to search for some pointers online (rather than giving up or slamming the wall in frustration). (View Highlight)