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Hilarious Stock Photos: What 'Stressed Women' Look Like

What Stressed Women Look Like -- According To Stock Photos
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There's no question that extreme stress can make you want to scream and stomp and pull your hair out. But punch yourself in the head with boxing mitts or cover yourself with Post-it notes? Now that we've never seen -- or at least we hadn't until we started scouring the stock photo archives for "stressed women."

Stock photos -- images we use on a daily basis here at HuffPost Women -- are notoriously ridiculous. We've previously explored what women supposedly do on Thanksgiving, in Santa hats and when they have a bad day.

This time, we turned our eye toward a topic we explore regularly on HuffPost Women: stress. The results are fairly absurd -- and hilarious.

LOOK: 12 Things Stressed Women Do

What Stressed Women Do, According To Stock Photos
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Ditch work, hire a green screen and do their best "Incredible Hulk" impression.
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Create their own version of the celebrity-favored wellness treatment "cupping" by pasting Post-its on themselves. Bonus points, if they take the time to draw a Monroe mole. (Maintaining a fake beauty mark is pretty stressful.)
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Transform stereotypes of femininity into weapons -- while wearing curlers.
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Put on their best queen/superwoman costume and throw a tantrum in hope that mommy will come save them from their mismatched dress-up box.
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Naturally, nothing stresses these stereotypical stock photo women out more than cleaning. A mop and a sponge! The utter horror!
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See, even our grandmothers became frazzled caricatures when stressed!
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This woman takes the whole 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon literally. She clearly can't move -- no wonder she's stressed.
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Revert back to childhood and model themselves after their favorite Chia Pet.
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Shopping sucks, guys, OK? So many floral prints, so little time.
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Hide behind a stack of books. Because, why not?
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Punch themselves in the head. If you can't beat it... Give yourself a pounding headache!
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BABY POWDER EXPLOSION!

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