[lovelearning]

If you aren't doing so already, start a daily exercise routine before deciding your next step.

Jogging, workout, walking, cycling, swimming...whatever you like at whatever time and duration are convenient to you.

They give you a kind of physical and mental high that'll help cope with stress.

I felt short term boosts in self-confidence and more long term improvements in memory and recall (YMMV, of course).

[shams93]

I've been there before when you may be working 48 hours without a 5 minute break that can be impossible, I've had employers push me to the point of near death. Start looking for a better job now its obvious they don't care and guess what if you suffer a major health catastrophe as a result if overwork no one will care put yourself first and start looking now.

[hiou]

This is great advice for high stress situations. But if it is overwork, it can be impossible to take up an exercise routine when you are working 36 - 60 hours straight every other week. I've been there and remember just trying to stay conscious let alone going for a run.

[lovelearning]

Need not be anything strenuous. Just a dozen pushups are good enough and take hardly half a minute. Jumping up and down like a little kid is fine too! The idea is to divert the mind away from the source of stress.

[hiou]

Right, but when it is exhaustion from not sleeping for days at a time and working 14+ hours days 7 days a week for weeks at a time it stops being about stress and simply trying to stay physically and mentally conscious. It sounded to me original question was about dealing more with exhaustion than stress. For stress, I would consider exercise an excellent suggestion.