Thursday 27 September 2018

Student Anxiety Can Be Alleviated With Applied Positive Psychology

By Gregory Myers


These days, there are so many reasons as to why people are struggling with health issues. Whether this is physical or mental. Reasons can range from social media to crime and much more. The sad part about this all is that it strongly affects the youth, and as students, their main priority should be education. So it's clear why the need for applied positive psychology is dire.

If you are someone that is trying to deal with anxiety and struggling to find a way to pass it, you may want follow a few simple steps. Firstly, it is important to watch what you eat. The stuff that one consumes has immediate and sometimes severe effects on your body. If you have something that your body rejects, you can quite sick or you can become unhealthy and not even know it. When you change this habit, you will start to feel better and this will also improve your mental state.

The one thing that is unable to control is the amount of time that one spends on social media. And because this has become a way of life, it is difficult to distinguish when is a good time to be on your device and when there isn't since this is what you use to research and do assignments. A good tip would be to allocate time for research and then separate time for being social. This way, your mind will be focused.

The tendency is that if you feel anxious, you will question everything that you need to do. It is a sense of paranoia that takes over your mind and body. The best way to combat this is to just go ahead and do it. You will find that you immediately feel a sense of relief. And once it is over, there was no reason to stress in the first place.

Breathing exercises are common to find among people who are paranoid or anxious all the time. This action helps you to feel better and keep it together at times when you feel overwhelmed. If you go to college, you will easily find other groups that practise the same art closer to exams or deadlines. If your institute has a medical section or a therapist on site, you may want to also ask them for advice.

As a last resort, you can always visit your GP to tell them what you are feeling and have them diagnose you. In this case, you will probably be given the name of a psychiatrist that you can see. From here, he or she will talk you through what you are feeling and you will eventually have to go onto medication.

Sometimes, it may feel as though it is an extreme case but it really isn't. It is important to follow the basic steps first and if they work, it means that you can control it. Try this before heading to the GP.

You need to open yourself to exploring other ways to try and combat it by yourself and only thereafter, if you find that nothing works, then you see a GP. Don't ever feel that you need to blame yourself for something that is not your fault. These conditions are unavoidable but what you do afterwards, is completely up to you.




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