1) Stress is a physical response to events in our lives that might put pressure on us or interrupt and affect our daily balance and life. Bodies have a stress response, this is our body helping us to be able to cope and manage stress in our lives. Our bodies stress reaction is made to keep us alert, energetic and focused, making it easier to deal with the event at hand and to manage stress and the problems you may face. A lot of things in our life can cause stress there are many ways to know how to cope and get through stress and stressful events. Making sure you deal with stress is really important, you need to make sure you deal with it so it doesn’t become overwhelming and too hard to easily deal with and manage. An effect of stress is the impact it has on your own personal health and on the surrounding environment. For example if you are stressed about something and not dealing with it properly, it will start to make other people stressed and that will just make it even harder to deal with it.
2) Some good ways to cope with a stressful event are too talk about it with people. Sharing your problems is better than keeping them to yourself, if you talk to a trusted adult, parent, friend or refer to a helpline it can then become easier to deal with stress and they might have ways of their own to help you break through the stressful event that you are facing. Some ways to cope and deal with stress is to:
See the positive side of the situation.
Solve your smaller problems, and allow yourself to gain control of the situation.
When feeling stressed make sure you are having enough sleep. If you are over tired then it will just make you more stressed.
Make sure you are eating a well balanced diet and eating healthy food so you feel good.
Try to be exercising regularly.
Participate in something that will take your mind off what is making you stressed, such as sport, spending time with friends or family, hobbies and other things you enjoy doing in spare time.
Talk about what is making you stressed to someone.
Think about the worse thing that could happen, and anything better then that is a plus and will make you feel better.
See a professional on how to cope with your stress or for counselling
You should set goals which you know you can reach and not focus on the things that may not be achievable.
2) Some good ways to cope with a stressful event are too talk about it with people. Sharing your problems is better than keeping them to yourself, if you talk to a trusted adult, parent, friend or refer to a helpline it can then become easier to deal with stress and they might have ways of their own to help you break through the stressful event that you are facing. Some ways to cope and deal with stress is to:
3) There are many different helpful phone numbers, websites etc that can give you helpful advice on stress, to help you manage and deal with the stressful event you or someone you may know is facing.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/stress_coping.html
http://youth.wyndham.vic.gov.au/support/stress
http://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/stress.php