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We talked about where do our stress come from (school or social interaction) and how do we deal with it individually. We realised that some of the methods to deal with stress may be harmful like taking drugs. And we feel like sometimes the ways we deal with it may be just to avoid the problem itself or to distract ourselves and to be better prepared to deal with the problem in reality.

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How do you know if your coping mechanism(s) are harmful or helpful?

Analyze your coping mechanisms and whether or not they have produced short term or long term benefits

Analyze whether your coping mechanisms are intended to temporarily distract yourself to reset your mind or to avoid the stressor

Ask others around you to see how they view your behavior and their opinions on it

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Listening the music, sleeping , watching movies or YouTube videos are temporary way to relax. But they are effective.

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Our group discussed that the solution of coping with stress may sometimes be relaxing activities such as listening to music or sleeping. It may sometimes be useful because it gives us an opportunity to restart again. While, it may sometimes brings negative impacts because some people will use it as an excuse to escape problems. However, I think it is not totally a bad thing because it is important to let go something sometimes. We don’t need to make everything perfect.

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Listening to music and watching movies helps me cope with stress. Even though it only offers temporary escape, it clears my mind and makes me feel peaceful, so I can handle problems better.

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B2: How to differentiate if the way you deal with stress is avoiding or preparing?

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B2: How to differentiate if the way you deal with stress is avoiding or preparing?

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In lives, there are so many ways to deal with the stress, such as listening to music and watching a movie and so on. Well, in short terms it might be quite useful or at least more acceptable? However, it is important for us to know if we are actually preparing for encountering the challenges or just avoiding. One of the easiest way imo is just to ask yourself the same question. If you want to be a better person and know yourself you cant keep indulging, you would be honest about the answer. And when the answer is out, we would be taking on the action we need to enforce. It is good to rest sometimes, and we dont need to always move forward. But it is important for us to know if we are making a progress rather than not facing it.

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We think we should try as many ways as we can to reduce our focus on stress. For example, reading, exercising, and meditation can be good ways to help us forget about the stress temporally. As we can keep our mood in a good state, we can overcome the stress.

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To maintain a moderate amount of stress

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How to control/reduce stress to a reasonable amount? B1

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How to control/reduce stress to a reasonable amount? B1

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As we have discussed, stress could be turned into motivation if it is at a reasonable amount, not too little, not too much. So what are the methods to do so?

We should use different methods for different types of stress. For example, if you are stressed about an event in your life, you can do your hobbies (reading, playing sports, games) to forget about it. On the other hand, if you are stressed about the workload, you can divide it into small parts and solve each at a time.

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I listen to music to cope with stress. It serves as a distraction for me to get away from those stressful situations so that I can clear my thoughts and have better mindsets to face the problems.(B2)

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I listen to music to cope with stress. It serves as a distraction for me to get away from those stressful situations so that I can clear my thoughts and have better mindsets to face the problems.(B2)

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There are several types of stress deriving from each kind of daily events.

Thus we have to have various methods to cope with each one. Firstly, reading which is effective in coping with Academic pressure, as u can immerse yourself in a different environments and space, a space of imagination and creativity. Secondly, physical activity allows you to rebuild your dopamine pathway which is suitable for the anxiety of social lives. Last but not least, meditation is very important for someone who worry about future events and assignments, the very key point is to focus on present, cause statistically we spend 30-50%of time worrying about future, which is stressful.

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B1

how to control your stress to see it as a motivation?

Different kind of stress have different solutions. However, the core of those solutions is that we need to focus on ourselves and live in present.

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I consider reading to be an effective personal strategy for coping with stress, as it allows me to disengage from daily pressures and maintain emotional balance

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Splitting works into parts: Better for work stress that can be handled with small proportions.

Hobbies: Reading, Meditating, Exercising, etc. could be good for easing stress temporarily

Deleting social media: "Out of sight, out of mind" Reduces comparison, might also miss out an opportunity to make others' life into motivation

Mindset: Focusing on ourselves and the present, this minimizes inferiority.

Conclusion: Different situations requires different solutions and methods. Changing your own mindset so that you focus on yourself is the best thing.

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Dealing with stress from social media (comparing your life to others)

When we look at social media we see the lives of other people and we might see that some people are doing much better than us (e.g making more money, doing better academically, in a relationship, etc.)

We look at these things and what we feel is: stress from comparing ourselves to others.

How do we deal with this stress?

Some answers our group came up with were:

Deleting social media.

Conclusion:

Sometimes we can change this stress into motivation by learning from these posts, not by escaping the problem, but by controlling the amount of time we spend on social media