{"id":128,"date":"2017-09-19T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=128"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:48:12","slug":"feeling-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2017\/09\/19\/feeling-stressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling stressed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Start with some simple lifestyle changes<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk with a friend or family member and harness their immense wisdom<\/li>\n<li>Do some serious breathing (not that casual breathing you do every day) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/au.reachout.com\/tools-and-apps\/reachout-breathe\">https:\/\/au.reachout.com\/tools-and-apps\/reachout-breathe<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Realise your inner Buddha and meditate &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.headspace.com\/\">https:\/\/www.headspace.com\/<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smilingmind.com.au\/\">https:\/\/smilingmind.com.au\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reconnect with things you used to enjoy doing, but might have given up in recent times (e.g. sports, social activities, martial arts, coin collecting)<\/li>\n<li>Do some exercise &#8211; jog, run, bike ride, walk, gardening, nude yoga (leave the curtains shut please)<\/li>\n<li>Become your own psychologist and try one of these mood monitoring and modification apps &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindgauge.org.au\/#\/\">http:\/\/www.mindgauge.org.au\/#\/<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moodmission.com\/\">http:\/\/moodmission.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tidy up your diet &#8211; The best ones? The <a href=\"http:\/\/dashdiet.org\/default.asp\">DASH <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/mind-diet\">MIND <\/a>diets. The worst ones? The grapefruit diet and that one that is all bacon.<\/li>\n<li>Get enough sleep \u00a0&#8211; how much? &#8211; find out here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleephealthfoundation.org.au\/\">https:\/\/www.sleephealthfoundation.org.au\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Lifestyle changes not quite cutting it?<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a chat to a professional\n<ul>\n<li>Speak to your GP<\/li>\n<li>Book an appointment with one of our Flinders University GPs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/health.cfm\">http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/health.cfm<\/a>) &#8211; 8201 2118<\/li>\n<li>Have a chat to one of our Flinders University counsellors (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/counsel.cfm\">http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/counsel.cfm<\/a>) &#8211; 8201 2118 or email us on <a href=\"mailto:counselling@flinders.edu.au\">counselling@flinders.edu.au<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Need to talk to someone immediately?<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Mental health triage &#8211; 13 14 65<\/li>\n<li>beyondblue &#8211; phone and online chat services 24\/7 &#8211; 1300 22 4636 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/get-support\/get-immediate-support\">https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/get-support\/get-immediate-support<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lifeline &#8211; phone and online chat services 24\/7 &#8211; 13 11 14 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>eHeadspace (for those of you under 25) &#8211; phone and online chat services &#8211; 1800 650 890 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eheadspace.org.au\/\">https:\/\/eheadspace.org.au\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Love to ignore advice and just Google it yourself?<\/b><\/div>\n<div>At least consider starting with these resources<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindhealthconnect.org.au\/\">https:\/\/www.mindhealthconnect.org.au\/<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a gateway to lots of mental health and wellbeing resources<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emhprac.org.au\/services\/\">http:\/\/www.emhprac.org.au\/services\/<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; an updated list of the best quality (predominantly Australia) mental health websites and mobile phone apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start with some simple lifestyle changes Talk with a friend or family member and harness their immense wisdom Do some serious breathing (not that casual breathing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23,25,20,7],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emental-health-resources","category-mental-health","category-mobile-apps","category-treatment-options","category-well-being","tag-stress"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}