Stress Awareness Week 2020
Stress Awareness Week is taking place between 2nd and 6th November 2020. The aim of the week is to promote the importance of wellbeing for everyone. Starting a conversation about stress and wellbeing is important as it helps to break the stigma.
What is stress?
Stress is the body's reaction to feeling under pressure - a little bit of stress can be helpful for motivation, but too much stress or stress over an extended period of time can negatively affect us.
Stress can come from external situations such as big life changes, personal difficulties, or pressure at university or home. Stress levels can also be increased by internal factors such as thought patterns or behaviour patterns.
Self help for stress
- Every Mind Matters' page on stress has a short quiz that you can take to review how you have been feeling.
- The NHS-designed self-help guide on stress details the signs of stress, and different ways of dealing with stress, such as deep muscle relaxation and mindful breathing.
- Togetherall have self-paced courses such as Balance Your Thinking, Managing Stress & Worry, and Problem Solving, which may help with your feelings of stress.
- Follow a home workout on Sport and Wellbeing's Facebook - exercise can be helpful in combatting stress.
- You could try listening to a podcast for your wellbeing or download an NHS app to help you learn more techniques to maintain your wellbeing.
- Read the SUSSED post on why taking notice can be good for your wellbeing.
If you would like to talk to someone about your own stress levels, visit our webpage to see who to get in touch with. If you are worried about someone else, our webpage also has information about what you can do, and what the University can do to support them.