Your Mental Health Process

Understanding stress and its impact

The personal project is known for its overwhelming amount of objectives and heavy workload. It often impacts on the students' mental health. It can lead to stress and anxiety from deadlines or the workload.

Common Signs:

Feeling overwhelmed
Having trouble Sleeping
Difficulty concentrating
Mood swings

Stress can impact your productivity and affect your mental health. It's crucial to recognize these signs early and treat your health right.

Strategies

Time Management:

Create a schedule and break down your project into smaller tasks that are manageable and then create managable deadlines.

Lifestyle Choices:

Regularly exercise and engage in physical activities you enjoy to reduce stress and overall health. Set a balanced diet and eat nutritious meals to gain focus on your personal project. Plenty of sleep is also important, make sure you get enough rest each day!

Relaxation Techniques:

Practice meditation exercises to feel and stay calm throughout. For example, deep breathing is a useful technique to relax and reduce anxiety. You could engage in hobbies or activities that you enjoy and find relaxing.

Maintaining a healthy
work life balance

Set Boundaries

Assign specific times between working on your project and relaxing. Avoid your project taking up all of your free time.

Take Breaks

Regular breaks are important to prevent early burnout. Use the time to rest but be smart about when you schedule these breaks.

Resources and support

Contact your counselor or school supervisor.

Local support groups for stress reduction.

Online researches and sources that addresses meditation techniques and tips.

Remember: Your well-being is most important!

Taking care of yourself will help you perform better and enjoy the process a lot more. Don't hesitate to use contact resources available in your school or online, and reach out for support when needed.

ACTUAL FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS IN 2024's Y11

"It felt like hell when I didn't update my process journal for a week. I feel dead inside."
"I feel... actually it was okay. Maybe some parts I have to go very in detail and that part stress me out very much but not that much. Because the personal project is actually fun, we actually do something we really like but we're probably stressed out because of the report where we have to write every detail. But it's okay."
"...I don't think it's easy, but I don't think it's hard. But I feel like... you know, IB has graded many people already and they're gonna be like 'oh, this is okay [regarding IB's opinion of student's writing or report].' Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
"I was really looking forward to working on my personal project. I have thought about my topic since I was in Y10. I did a lot of prior research about my specific topic."
"I think it's a lot more stressful than people say it is (everyone was hired to say nice things about the personal project, I swear!!). I don't know if it's because of the topic I chose, or if it is just generally this stressful. But it was a good kind of stress, it really really helped that I chose something I was truly interested in, because I was kind of excited about this stress."
"I think it's really time consuming, but because it's about our interests, I think it's great that we're doing something we're interested in."
"It's fun in the process of making the product but making the criteria is so tiring."

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