Stress and stress-relief are two sides to an absurd coin. Living in a stressful world creates the demand for ways to relieve the stress. This addresses the symptoms, not the disease.
According to About.com, here are the top 25 stress relievers:
There are so many ways to relieve stress, but I think people that have very stressful lives need to be willing to make one or more major changes to remove the root cause of their stress. People do things for the future, ignoring the present. For example, people work so hard all day and never see their growing children, just to make enough money to send their children to college. Meanwhile the parent(s) and the kids are miserable. People take sacrifices too far for the future, and give away the present.
