For the next three days, please keep a stress journal.
A stress journal can help you identify the regular stressors in your life and the way you deal with them. Each time you feel stressed, keep track of it in your journal. As you keep a daily log, you will begin to see patterns and common themes. Write down:
- What caused your stress (make a guess if you're unsure).
- How you felt, both physically and emotionally.
- How you acted in response.
- What you did to make yourself feel better.
Remember that some stuff does not need to be public information, so that means keep “resident incidents” general but do a decent job of answering the questions. This is just a one-time blog post on this subject but you can continue a personal journal if you find it helpful!
Please remember that this is due on Thursday, October 25th @ Noon.
13 comments:
1. Signing up for Win-term Classes
I am worried that I wouldn’t be able to get the right classes to meet my objectives
I contacted my Advisor
My advisor and I worked it out
2. Getting a Co-op/Internship
I Need at least one Co-op or Internship to graduate and it would be best to have two and dealing with searching, applying and interviewing for jobs is a lot more work.
I buckled down and got it done
Nothing
3. Dealing with all my school work and jobs and RA
I feel stressed and overwhelmed
Just work hard till the work is done than go to bed and wake up and do it all over again
Nothing
Honestly, I feel it did not help at all.
1. Bidding on ebay
I felt tense nervous, and angry when I lost.
Realized I didn't need it anyways
Looked contently at my bank statement
2. Big art project due
I felt nervous, sad, angry, and happy at times
I responded by working straight through til it was done
I will be playing video games all weekend in celebration of it being done
3. My girlfriend accidentally cut the very tip of her finger off with an xacto knife
I was scared, and panicked a little at first
I went into an interesting first-aid aware state and got out the first aid kit
I took a deep breath and calmed her down as well.
1) Homework and projects
Emotionally I felt overwhelmed. Even when I would get something done another thing would jump onto my to do list.
I mentally freaked out, and got back to work.
I stopped thinking about how much I didn't have done, but what I could do to get more done sooner.
2) Talking to old friends
Emotionally i felt like garbage, why am I still talking to someone I told myself I wouldn't?
I continued to talk the them, and it lead me to a bad direction.
What I did to make my self feel better was being completely honest with myself.
3) R.A. Requirements
Emotionally I feel a little overwhelmed still. Physically I'm really tired. I haven't gotten much sleep.
Acting in response I basically just try not to think about how much Ive got to do, and try to get stuff done.
I'm still not sure how to make myself feel better.
It helped a little, but I'm not much of one to write everything down.
1) Monday
Thinking of all the projects/papers due before thanksgiving
I felt angry emotionally, that all this stuff had to be done all in so little time. Felt tired physically, but not relaxed.
Sighed and thought about how stressed I'm going to be, and how there couldn't be any relaxing tonight
Breathed in and out a few times, decided to think about it later, went to lunch after class. Then wrote due dates in my planner and planned the rest of the day out.
2) Tuesday
Academic planning for major, decided whether to stay an extra semester or not
Emotionally felt indecisive and anxious about the very best route to take, physically felt nervous and sick to stomach
Asked questions to my advisor and looked over plan for a long time
Went and got coffee, sat in muy room and looked over emails and put dates in my planner, wrote down primary goals in college to remind myself of my priorities, worked on hw
3) Tuesday
Working on 3D modeling project that was having major complications and taking a lot longer than expected
Felt frustrated emotionally, I had so much to get done and now I had to deal with something else, plus it was already getting very late at night
Worked on it for awhile, then took a skype break, worked on it long enough to get the kinks worked out, then put it down for the night. Decided after such a stressful day I'd be better off working on it tomorrow with a fresh mind.
Keeping a journal did not decrease my stressful times, but it made me more aware of what made me stressed and how I deal with it. I think when I look at my planner too much, it makes me even more stressed, and I need to focus more on actually getting stuff done instead of planning it out.
1.) Studying for 2 Mid-Terms
I felt overwhelmed and overbooked
I studied over a longer period of time and not just the day before
I drank coffee before the test as an encouragment to myself
2.)Adding another major
I felt confused and mentally drained because I had thought about it for a while and new I just had to decide
Once I made the decision I did not look back and contemplate if it was the right thing
I thought about how this will affect my future for the better and was excited
3.)Realized I was overbooked for desk duty and a meeting
I paniked and worried
I asked Nolan to switch, and he agreed to do so
I acted fast and when I found someone was very realived
1. Art Project
I have 3 drawings due tomorrow and I have been stressed everyday since being assigned to it because I knew it was going to be a lot of work. I just finished so now I feel better. :)
2. Money
Every other job that I have had I get to see my income come in and I feel really good about it. With this job, while I know I'm getting paid and a free room, I don't actually see the income coming in and it stresses me out when I have to pay for art supplies or personal things and I have to be careful with how much I'm spending. Next semester I'm hopefully going to get a second job, so it will relieve some stress and I already started to fill out the application. :)
3. Boyfriend and job
As many of you know already I have a boyfriend that lives 4 hours away. It's tough being so far and when he has time in his schedule to have our talk time of the day, I'm usually unable to because I've been busy with the job or I am trying to finish my homework. It relieves some stress knowing that he will be up here next year. It also relieves stress when our schedule clear up so we are able to talk.
Keeping a journal helps keep me organized and know what I have to do to plan out the day, so I have time for other things. Personally my journal is my planner. Without it, I would be lost.
1. Having to schedule the DSM Monthly Meeting. Physically I felt average, emotionally I felt overwhelmed and off my game. In response i acted in a normal way and kept my calm.
2. Working with the other coach for dance caused me stress. I felt emotionally overwhelmed, and physically I felt upset and didn't want to be around many people. I dealt with this by discussing my feelings with Sara (the other coach)
3. I had a 10 page paper to write for my Law Class. I felt physically drained, and emotionally rattled. I acted in such a way that I tried to get my paper done as quickly as possible.
Journaling didn't necessarily help with this type of stress. I find more relief when I talk items out, instead of writing them down.
Thank you to Alex, Shaun, Tiffany, Joe, Macy, Jordan and Kyle for posting to the blog by the new deadline. I'm sure that it caused you some undue stress...sorry!
1)Worrying about Classes
I am physically and emotionally drained from staying up late studying and worrying about my biochem class. I make myself feel better about it by studying more which doesn't really help the whole late nights.
2)Seeing that a win-term that I wanted to take was already filled up
I was pretty freaked out and wasn't sure if I would find another class to stay on schedule. I made myself feel better once I found another class that will work.
3)Talking to my parents
I am the type of person who tends to worry about little things so when everything isn't going good it freaks me out. I made myself feel better by hanging out with friends.
Journaling change my response to stress by helping me identify what I can do when I become stressed and know what will help with certain causes of stress.
Sorry for the late response, Didn't see the @noon part!
1. Getting my Student Orgs budget submitted 5 minutes before the deadline
I was tense and short-tempered trying to get it submitted with little guidance from the poor directions that were supplied.
I tried to create a sensible budget with the other execs.
Barely getting a poor version submitted. Nothing.
2. Not having time off to myself on my birthday
Physically tired and emotionally worn out.
I did everything that I had to that day including advisement meetings, desk work, an exam, homework, and the Ally session for the RA class.
I stayed up later to relax a little and celebrate with my girlfriend. Besides that, not really anything.
3. The two MC teams at dodge ball got mixed up and things kept changing
I was annoyed that everyone kept trying to "fix" things by switching team names despite that not actually fixing it.
I tried to explain what had happened (3 from each team played together) and to just leave the teams how they were
Tried to fix the problem
I don't really think this helped because I don't really have the time to take care of things during the week.
Sorry this was posted late, I completely forgot about the post because of how busy I've been the past two days.
Thanks Nolan & Kyle.
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