Counsel that person on how to cope or change situations. Record additional stressors your friends have that you are not currently dealing with yourself. Pretend it is your friend who has these stressors, and advise that friend. Review your predictions of what will happen next (Days Two and Three entries). Where could you seek help? What could you do differently? Can you change your thoughts about that stressor? Do you just have to accept something you cannot change? Create a list of options to address each concern and/or stressor.
List how it’s affecting you now, what you think may happen next, and what that will result in later. Take one stressor you are suffering from right now. Don’t reflect on them–just list them.Ĭompare and contrast what is happening right now in three areas of your life to what you are afraid will happen down the road. List things you’re concerned about, skipping a line or two between each. It’s for the writer only! Also, if something gets too “heavy,” the writer should skip that topic for now, and just note that it’s something to address. The writing is to be done extemporaneously with absolutely no focus on style, punctuation, etc.
Here are 14 daily prompts–enough for two weeks–that teens can respond to in journal form to feel more assured and confident. But how many of us have tried journaling to control anxiety? Research shows that just 15-20 minutes a day spent journaling responses to directed prompts can curb negative self-talk and develop positive attitudes that will improve performance in stressful situations and outlook in general.
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At least now we recognize these stressors as real and sometimes even debilitating, and there are multiple resources that can help, including, importantly, professional talk therapy and sometimes even medication.įor less serious cases, many of us are well-aware of anti-anxiety methods such meditation, breathing, and visualizing positive results of challenging situations. Many teens suffer more stress than we do as adults. Being a teen is stressful as-is, and when you add in the compounded stressors of standardized tests, finals, end-of-year projects, social situations, and planning for summer it can be downright overwhelming.
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