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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
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
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