Staying Afloat

emotional-health , psychology

I picture stress as water, with me floating above it. Balloons lift me: sleep, friends, family, moving. Weights pull me down: pain, a deadline, anger, debt. How high the water sits depends on my stress tolerance. When the weights win, I go under.

AI-augmented, roughly 80% AI (what this means)

I love AI, and I use it on posts like this one partly to get better at using it. The percent is a rough guess: after rounds of prompting, rewriting and editing, it's very hard to say which words came from whom.

Floating

How to play

  • Tap a tag in the top strip to add a balloon. Tap one in the bottom strip to add a weight.
  • Sleep, friends, family and moving go both ways. Bad sleep is a weight.
  • Tap the pump, then a balloon, to make it bigger.
  • Drag the scissors across a string or chain to cut it loose.
  • More controls has the stress tolerance slider. It moves the water.