Handling Stress

Follow the links below to find general information about dealing with stress.

Reviewed July 2011

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Title:   Feeling crap (or when life sucks)
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Check out this fact sheet to help identify why you might be feeling like life sucks and to find tips to help if you're feeling this way.
Date:   Mar 2012
Title:   Illness - tips to help you recover
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Medical conditions, illness or injury can disrupt our lives and cause stress. Positive lifestyle factors like a healthy diet, regular exercise, sleep and social support can relieve or manage the symptoms of illness or injury and help improve recovery. Social support can help you maintain your quality of life when you are ill.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Starting at a new school
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   This fact sheet gives you practical suggestions for making starting at a new school easier and where you can get help.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Coping with exam results
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Not doing as well as you expected or hoped in your exam results can be really tough.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Looking after yourself - Parents
Publisher:   Headroom (South Australia)
Description:   All parents need support at various times. One of the best things you can do is to learn to ask for help when you need it and accept support when it is offered.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Self-harm
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   The reasons people harm themselves are complicated. Self-harming usually does not mean that a person wants to commit suicide or that they are looking for attention.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Women can experience high levels of anxiety at all stages of screening for cervical cancer including colposcopy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women can experience high levels of anxiety at all stages of screening for cervical cancer including colposcopy (visualisation of the cervix by using a binocular microscope). Colposcopy has been shown to be associated with high levels of anxiety, even h...
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   We can't afford it
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Every family has its ups and downs. Someone in the family could be sick, or mum or dad may have lost their job, or maybe there isn't enough money to pay all the bills.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Moving house
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   There are lots of reasons for your family to be moving house. Maybe you need a bigger or a smaller house ,or mum or dad has a different job.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Kinesiology
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Kinesiology means 'the study of movement'. It describes a form of therapy that uses muscle monitoring (biofeedback) to look at what may be causing 'imbalances' in the body. Kinesiologists may treat a range of disorders including stress, muscular disorders, nervous disorders, allergies, nutritional deficiencies, emotional problems and learning and behavioural difficulties.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Stress can become a serious illness
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Stress that is not managed or treated can lead to significant medical illnesses and anxiety disorders that can result in depression. Stress may contribute to physical illness such as cardiovascular disease. When stress turns into a serious illness, it is important to get professional help as soon as possible. Untreated anxiety disorders can lead to serious depression.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Feeling stressed
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   A guide to understanding stress, recognising signs of stress and stress triggers, and suggestions for coping if you're feeling stressed by parenting.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Scleroderma affects the skin
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Scleroderma is a disease of the body's connective tissue. The most common symptom is a thickening and hardening of the skin, particularly of the hands and face but also the internal organs such as the heart, lungs and kidneys. There is no cure but the symptoms can be managed.
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Empty nest syndrome
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Empty nest syndrome refers to the grief that many parents feel when their children move out of home. This condition is typically more common in women, who are more likely to have had the role of primary carer. The feelings of grief can coincide with other major life event such as menopause or retirement. It can be difficult to find sympathy, but help and support is available.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Reducing stress
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Stress is a common condition that can have serious adverse effects on an individual's quality of life and health. It occurs when an individual feels too much pressure that they are unable to cope with.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Stress - how to recognise it
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Stress is a part of our lives, and the way we react to stress is similar to how we react to danger - we are conditioned to go into 'fight or flight' mode, and we may get unpleasant physical symptoms, telling us that we are over-stressed.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Coping with final exam results
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Expectations and pressure may be a positive influence. However, too much pressure to achieve can cause you to burn out.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Exam time: hints for managing stress
Publisher:   inspire foundation
Description:   This fact sheet outlines some of the causes of stress during exam time, and ways to manage it.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Decision making
Publisher:   inspire foundation
Description:   Everybody makes decisions. Making a decision is not always easy, especially if it has a long-term impact.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   What to do when your friend is distressed
Publisher:   inspire foundation
Description:   Sometimes it's hard to know how we can help a friend who is distressed.
Date:   Sep 2010

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