hey I'm Lucy
hi I'm Hannah
and today we're talking about stress
feeling stressed can feel different for everybody, but what kind of thing can it feel like?
for me I would say that I have trouble focusing on one specific thing
When I've got loads of things going on in my headit's hard to like stop it being just a
blurry mess. Also my skin just gets really bad but it usually happens like a
couple of days after I've been really stressed the thing that I really
recognize on a daily basis or when I'm on stage performing is I have an
essential tremor which means I shake all the time slightly but when I'm stressed
it gets exaggerated so it's just like and even if it's the tiniest bit of
stress it then makes me think oh no, now people think that I'm really stressed feel
like stressing about being stressed
yeah a lot of the time if I'm stressed I'm stressing
about people thinking that I'm stressed
yeah yeah so even though stress is kind of a
feeling and a mental thing it can have really physical effect I think most
people present stress physically and in a way that other people can recognize it
but and there are some people in my family where when they're stressed they
just go completely silent and so yeah people really deal with it completely differently
and quite a big one is sleep as well isn't it can really affect that
yeah I mean for me if I have something difficult going on in career life or
personal life I'll think about it over and over again and play it out in my
head and it will definitely make me lose sleep and then that sets you on for
a bad day the next day when you wake up
sometimes a little bit of stress
can be quite good it kind of motivate you to do things and I've always said
that I work better under pressure it does like you say motivate you to
either get on with what you're doing or really try and get the best out of
what whatever the situation might be so it's just kind of a case of managing it
and making sure that you're dealing with it in a healthy way I didn't used to be
able to channel my nervous or stress energy into anything really productive
until and sort of exam periods I started thinking yeah I need to make this
stressful energy just place it more into revision why I actually needed to do
rather than just thinking oh I'm stressed to get something productive out of what I was feeling
why might we start to feel stressed?
anything it could be something as
little as you've forgotten to do and a piece of homework or and you forgotten
to pick something up that somebody asked you for there are so many reasons why
somebody could get stressed
so it's not always easy but there are ways that we
can try and make ourselves less stressed can we think of a couple of them
unplugging is one that for me and de-stresses me when you're already stressed
and then you look at your phone or your computer to take your mind off it you're
still getting loads of stimulus stimulus ... stimuli stimuli's probably the word
and that are just feeding you more information and if you've already got
loads of stuff going on in your head it probably is better to just go for a walk
or listen to a relaxing playlist or just music that you like if you're
already feeling stressed it can feel like you've got absolutely no time in
your day to take time out how do you get around that
you could just before bed
and say you're just about to go to sleep just try not to look too much at your phone to
get to get all that information just and just clear your mind maybe some like
meditation usually if I'm really stressed and I'm in bed and I try and
just kind of keep trying to take it back to like a calm place in your head and
there are always going to be things that's just you out but just taking that
time for yourself to just calm down and find like a peace in yourself is really
important I think
you might still be struggling so what other things can you do
talk to people talk to someone if you don't want to talk to your family talk
to your friends or teacher or somebody that you feel like you trust then you
can just be comfortable with talk to Childline because even if you're not
sure how somebody else can help might seem like an impossible situation
that nobody else can help with it's still really good to talk about it and get it off your chest a bit
Yeah get someone else's perspective on it yeah
thanks so much for coming in today Hanna thanks for me
we'll see you next time
BYE