The Science of Stress:

Stress vs. Anxiety- Knowing the Difference is Critical to Your Health

●        Offers the Definitions of Stress and Anxiety and explains their distinctions

https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/external/2018/06/stress-vs-anxiety/

Living with Anxiety: How to Cope

●        Explanation/definition of Anxiety

●        Celebs who live with Anxiety

●        Specific tips to manage anxiety (including tapping)

https://www.psycom.net/living-with-anxiety/#celebritieslivingwithanxiety

How Stress Affects Your Brain (video)

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1MLEX5XCF91GGWrBO2AGkjJ1M6pFKvPbd

(4:15)

Managing Stress-Brainsmart- BBC (the video we watched session 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpQrMqDoqE&t=10s

(2:23)

Top 10 Stress Management Techniques for Students

https://www.verywellmind.com/top-school-stress-relievers-for-students-3145179

Reach out for Help

Text or talk hotline- NYC Well

●        help now for depression, anxiety, suicidal feelings, drug/alcohol addiction

●        Confidential and free

●        Open all the time (24/7, 365 days a year)

●        Interpreter for 200 languages

Text “Well” to 65173

Or call 1-888- NYC-WELL (1-888-692-9355)

Website:  https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/en/get-help-now/

Here’s what happens when you call into a suicide prevention hotline

●        Offers a step-by-step of the process

●        Explains that it’s confidential 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinekee/what-happens-when-you-call-suicide-hotline

S.T.R.E.S.S. Strategies

Sleep

Teenage Circadian Rhythm

●        Teens need 8-10 hours

●        It’s hormones that cause teens to stay up late

https://www.neurologytimes.com/blog/teenage-circadian-rhythm

Teens and Sleep

●        Offers science of teens and sleep

●        Provides lots of tips to help you sleep

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/teens-and-sleep

Challenging Ways Technology Affects Your Sleep

●        Discusses impact of screens on sleep

https://www.sleep.org/articles/ways-technology-affects-sleep/

Talk it Out

HOTLINES/TEXT LINES (free, anonymous places for help- interpreters available)

●        NYC hotline: Text WELL to 65173

●        NYC WELL hotline: Call 1888-NYC-WELL

●        Crisis Text line for LGBTQ community:  Text 'LGBTQ' TO 741741

●        Trans Lifeline:  1-877-565-8860

● National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929

Listen to others’ stories

It Gets Better Project:

●        An excellent resource for LGBTQ youth explaining that things DO get better.

●        Hear peoples’ true stories 

https://itgetsbetter.org/stories/

Celebrities talk about having anxiety

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIG5mqXpVl4

Relax

Spotify Open Playlist of most relaxing songs

●        Research-based most relaxing songs that reduce your anxiety up to 65%

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31lxxIDyC3qYrtH6TpGFwx?

Lofi Hip hop beats

●        Hip Hop with no vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ

Meditation

Meditation for Teenagers Stress and Anxiety (20:13)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5sXaLzAhGQ

Mindfulness

5.4.3.2.1 Technique

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/behavioral-health-partners/bhp-blog/april-2018/5-4-3-2-1-coping-technique-for-anxiety.aspx

Exercise

Yoga

Quick Stress Fix 5  Minute Sequence (6:18)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOfshreyu4w

Screen Awareness 

Impulsive Behavior Linked to Sleep and ScreenTime https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-impulse-behavior-screen-time-14710/

Too much Screen Time Linked to  Anxiety and Depression in Young Children and Teens

https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/11/11/too-much-screen-time-linked-to-anxiety-depression-in-young-children-and-teens/139931.html

10 Apps to Limit your Screen time

https://www.spyzie.com/parental-controls/apps-to-limit-screen-time-on-phone.html

Study Skills

10 Top Ideas to Help Your Learning - Barbara Oakley

●        Great tips but best if you read her book Learning How to Learn

https://barbaraoakley.com/books/learning-how-to-learn/

Retrieval Practice Strategies (quizzing yourself- working hard to remember things)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjrqc6UMDKM&t=84s

Spaced Practice (opposite of cramming)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJYp98eys8

Sketcho Frenzy: The Basics of Visual Notetaking

●        Combining regular note taking with images/drawings

●        This helps you remember information (cognitive science- dual coding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY9KdRfNN9w

Strategies to Demystify the learning process for Strugging Students

●     Excellent article

●     Contains the Pomodoro technique - avoid procrastination

●     Explains Focused and Diffused Thinking

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/49697/5-strategies-to-demystify-the-learning-process-for-struggling-students