Stress

The particularly fun bit comes when you start stressing about stress.  Can everyone say NervousBreakdown??

Then you lie down for a nap, and your boss comes in...

• Don't get it in the first place.  Simple, yet surprisingly effective.  Water and ducks' backs are a good metaphor, as is 'hopelessly oblivious'.  "You mean that's today?" should be a rallying cry.
  
• Alternately - eat grass.
  

Well, the first doesn't work for me, so I guess I'll have to try the second... --KazuStressMagnet (looking for good grass-soup and roast grass recipes)

Oh - raw seemed to work best.  Just after morning dew.  --Vitenka (warning, advice based upon rare instances of Vitenka stress may not be terribly helpful)

One suspects that grass agrees rather better with stressed foxes than stressed humans.. - MoonShadow (has anyone else read anything by [E. Seton-Thompson?] I'm thinking of the one where a coyote eats grass as an antidote to something it's been fed..)

Sorry - should add that most land mammals that don't have grass as an ordinary part of their diet eat it to combat (mostly dietary) illnesses.  So I'm basing this on fact.  Sorta.  But it really did help!  --Vitenka (Placebo works even when you think that's what it is - if it's silly enough)

Dogs eat grass to combat illnesses. They eat grass so that they throw up, thus clearing out a stomach bug. This may not work particularly well for stress. YMMV --Admiral

Oh yes, it doesn't work for any rational reason.  But being rational isn't a particularly good way to combat stress ;)  --Vitenka  (Though some people want to declare both it and depression an illness, after all...)

Hang on. People want to declare being rational as an illness? Surely not? --Admiral

Well, I doubt that rational people want to :)  --Vitenka  (Come on, the stress was clearly associated with it.)