How to deal with Stress?
What causes stress?
In high school, students feel much more stress than they have ever felt in their life. This can be attributed to high school and activities. Many teens in today's world are experiencing elevated levels of chronic stress. Stress can negatively affect the behaviors of students, like sleep patterns, diet, mood, and exercise. Students in high school confront great competition in taking difficult classes, accumulating remarkable extracurriculars, preparing and acing college placement exams, and making significant and life-changing decisions about their future. At the same time, kids must deal with the social obstacles that come with high school. Many students feel the desire to release stress, but because of all the activities and duties that occupy a student's calendar, it can be tough to find the time to experiment with different stress relievers.
How can I relieve stress?
- Get Lots of Sleep: Students often skip sleep due to their hectic schedules. However, being asleep is detrimental to your state of well-being. You become unproductive, feel difficulty concentrating, and become unable to learn efficiently. Over everything else, make sure you get at least 8 hours of sleep every night.
- Exercise: Exercise is one of the best ways to get rid of stress. Students should strive to include exercise into their daily schedules, as not only does exercise release endorphins in your brain to relieve stress, but it also helps you live a longer and happier life.
- Listen to Music: One of my favorite ways to reduce stress is by listening to music. Music can help you release tension and either soothe or excite your mind. Students can also liven up their study sessions by listening to music, making studying less of a bore.
- Organize Your Study Space: Clutter may lead to stress, reduced productivity, and inability to concentrate. Many students live in a congested environment, which might affect their grades. A study space without clutter or distractions is a highly effective way to minimize stress while studying
- Practice Deep Breathing: When your body is under stress, your mind becomes clouded, and you become unable to make decisions. Breathing exercises are an effective technique to relax quickly. These may be done almost anywhere to reduce tension in minutes, and they're especially good for relieving anxiety before or even during examinations, as well as other times when stress is overpowering.
Conclusion
It is difficult to cope with stress at all, I'll admit it as well. But it is not going to help you when you are dealing with life-changing decisions/situations in the world if you can't handle stress. Now is the perfect time to understand how to cope with it and overcome it to where you are free at your best at all times. When you feel stressed out then take a deep breath and just relax and slowly think about what you are doing and work.
Aditya J is a current student planning to major in medicine. He hopes to provide invaluable information regarding how to be successful in your high school career!