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Sleep, Stress, and coping with stress.
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Sleep, Stress, and coping with stress.
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Year
Retrieved day, month, year, from
National Sleep Foundation
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/primary-links/about-nsf
2011
31 March 2012
Wikipedia – Stress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(biology)
This page was last modified on 27 March 2012.
30 March 2012
Stress – Reach out Australia http://au.reachout.com/find/articles/stress
Last updated 27 October 2012
30 March 2012
Teenagers and sleep – better health channel
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Teenagers_and_sleep
16 November 2011
30 March 2012
Stress management http://www.stressmanagement.com.au/
2001
30 March 2012
Help guide – sleep http://www.helpguide.org/life/sleeping.htm
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30 March 2012
Mind tools http://www.mindtools.com/stress/Defenses/Rest.htm
1996
30 March 2012

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Computer
TV and iPod
Phone
Time to bed:
10:30 pm
1
0
my best.
2) Bad or good sleeping patterns can have either good or bad long and short or long term affects. Some short term affects could be illness, unusual behaviour and acting out of character, skin problems, make leaning, listening and concentrating hard, limit your focus and make you want to eat more sweet and unhealthy foods which will cause weight gain all from just not enough sleep. Some long term effects of not enough or limited sleep are obesity and a range of other health problems like cardiovascular disease.
3) Some ways you can improve your sleeping patterns are too:

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Before bed activities:
Phone and computer
TV
Computer
TV and iPod
Time to bed:
10:30 pm
10:00 pm
9:30 pm
10:00 pm
9:45
Wake time:
6:30 am
6:40am
6:45 am
6:45 am
6:45 am
Total hours sleeping:
8 hours
8 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 15 minutes
8 hours and 45 minutes
9 hours
How many times I woke during the night:
0
0
0
1
0
1) My sleeping patters from Monday to Friday were all sufficient and mostly regular. I was having a good quality sleep each night and getting at least 8 hours of sleep. In the mornings I felt refreshed and wasnt tired, but during the day I started to feel tired and drousy which means that I probably need to be going to bed earlier to be feeling my best.
2) Bad or good sleeping patterns can have either good or bad long and short or long term affects. Some short term affects could be illness, unusual behaviour and acting out of character, skin problems, make leaning, listening and concentrating hard, limit your focus and make you want to eat more sweet and unhealthy foods which will cause weight gain all from just not enough sleep. Some long term effects of not enough or limited sleep are obesity and a range of other health problems like cardiovascular disease.
3) Some ways you can improve your sleeping patterns are too:
Go to bed at around the same time every night and wake up at the same time so your body gets a set body clock.
Don’t have electronics in your bedroom during the night.
You should stop using electronic devices or minimise the usage of them in the night before you plan on sleeping, this is because these devices keep your mind running and make it harder to fall asleep and to get into a deep sleep throughout the night.
Make sure you exercise during the day.
4) How the use of electronic devices affect sleeping patterns:
The use of electronic devices before sleep time is not good for your sleeping patterns and will most likely result in you having bad quality sleeps. Because these devices are usually light emitting they supress the sleep promoting hormone. This means your body will assume that it should be no longer be going to sleep so will keep you awake for longer by not releasing the sleep hormone melatonin. The recommendation for an alternative to using electronics before bed is that you stop using the device an hour or more before you plan on going to sleep. This will give your body time to relax and release to sleep hormone melatonin resulting in feeling tired and falling asleep.

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.
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