Stress

PhD student in Molecular Biology talks how to tell when negative emotions are creeping in and how to deal with pressure.

Digital recruitment manager, documentarian and world traveller Laura Gervais talks her approach to handling pressure and stress.

They say there’s an app for everything, and that certainly includes all the different ways you can take a breather and de-stress. We asked Year 9 teen girl Ella to take us through her top five favourite apps that help her when she needs to take a break.

Stress is contagious. I think that’s probably a fact. If everyone around you is stressed, you begin to realise the things in your life that maybe you should be worrying about. If everyone is talking about a difficult test, you’re going to stress about it too. An assignment? Those can be rough. Stress is contagious, so if you can stop it at its root that’s the way to go.

EXAMS. We hate that word.  Although nothing can quite beat the feeling of completing one. That little rush of adrenaline that allows you to write the final sentence and complete the final fraction. Adrenaline can be used to our advantage … and so can pressure.

It’s a creeper in the night and a thief of sleep. It’s a wave of emotion leaving cold sweats and a pounding heartbeat in its wake. It’s the tightness in your chest and the uncontrollable shakes taking over your body.

This is the peak of stress, when pressure and overwhelm pinnacle into panic.

Lucky for us, there’s a bunch of ways to tame these negative emotions…