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When you have your boss breathing down on your neck over a deadline, a long going squabble with your significant other or the mountains of assignment and tests that’s dumped over your head, you might feel like butter that’s spread too thin. When you feel exhausted and drained both mentally and physically, hindering your clear thinking, effectiveness and happiness, you can say that you have a problem managing your stress. Stress is your body’s response to the changes around you. Stress has some amount of beneficial qualities that may be of help for an individual.  Eu-stress or good stress can help you motivate yourself to meet your daily goals, it triggers your fight or flight response which can protect you from certain situations and make you work more efficiently. Distress or bad stress has quite a negative effect on the mind as well as body. Bad stress can cause memory loss, trouble concentrating, constant worrying, negative thinking, depression, anxiety, moodiness, anger, loneliness, isolation etc. It can also affect the body by messing up your digestive system, give you headaches, chest pains, weakened immune system, loss of sex drive and various types of pain. It also increases the risk of burnout in people. It is necessary to have a healthy mind and a well as a balanced life and therefore you need to know how to manage your stress appropriately. You need to identify the stress in your life and try to cut out the source if you can. You can develop stress relieving habits like exercise and meditation which will help you deal with stress in a healthy way. Keeping a positive attitude sounds incredibly generic and difficult but the effects of having a positive attitude has proved to be helpful for many people. Eating healthy meals, cutting of sugary drinks or junk food and making sure you have the time to rest well is integral in managing stress efficiently. If you feel like you have trouble coping with stress and controlling it, it is recommended that you seek out a professional who is trained in stress management.

What is so destructive about smoking that we have to watch a public service add everytime we watch a film? We have become so familiar with how our lungs are like sponges and the scary cases of former smokers that we dont even notice its existence anymore. Smoking is a habit that is widely condemned but it is widely accepted as well. The Nicotine present among other poisonous chemicals in cigarettes has an  addictive effect. Almost all of us must have seen how smokers finish a whole packet  in one sitting when they are stressed. This unhealthy habit makes them dependent on the cancer sticks of death to deal with their emotions. People also go through withdrawal when they decide to quit smoking, much like other drugs. It may have started as a cool look back in highschool with your friends but soon enough it can end with you coughing your lungs out or unconscious on an operating table. Once your body gets used to the nicotine, it will crave the chemical even more to trigger the release of dopamine which is associated with positive feelings. People with mental illness are more likely to smoke than people without  mental illnesses, it is harder for them to quit as well. Even though people tend to claim that smoking helps with their anxiety, research suggests that the relaxation they feel is momentary and their anxiety and stress comes back even worse than what it was before. Hence, they will essentially be caught in a vicious cycle. The best way to stop smoking is to never start. But if you are already depended on it, there are various ways that you can leave this unhealthy habit. You can quit cold Turkey, in an abrupt manner or slowly by  following a plan that will help you quit and prevent relapse. Reaching out to mental health professional can also give you a boost in your decision to quit.

Sleep is something that most of us have too little of or too much of. It is the reason many individuals call in sick to remain in bed for a few more hours. Some people also treat sleep as a sweet escape from reality. Too many of us can relate to taking a quick ‘nap’ and waking up the next morning with no idea of how the alarm turned off itself. Sleep is incredibly essential to the human body and mind. Good sleep is necessary for your body to develop properly and repair itself. It plays an important part in maintaining your memory, concentration and the processing of social cues. Lack of sleep can also increase the risks of heart diseases and diabetes.

A sleep disorder is changes in sleeping patterns or habits that can negatively affect health. Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder and also the most known one. Insomniacs have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up way too early causing the person to have less sleep than what is needed for the body. Insomnia that lasts for a short amount of time can be due to the individual’s life style choices, stress or even a cup of coffee they had before going to bed and it is not something they should excessively worry about. If it lasts more than a month and interferes with your life, you should see a doctor or a specialist. Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that causes overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep. This rare disease makes the individual sleep anytime no matter what they are doing which will disrupt their daily lives. The cause of narcolepsy is attributed to genetics and low levels of hypocretine, a neurochemical that regulates your REM sleep. Narcolepsy is often associated with other disorders such as sleep apnea or restlessness leg syndrome. A person suffering from sleep apnea will have their breathing disrupted during their sleep where their breathing repeatedly starts and stops. Men are more prone to this disorder compared to women and overweight people are more at risk of having sleep apnea. It can cause an individual to wake up in the night gasping for breath. They may also experience dry mouth, irritability and drowsiness once they are awake. Restless leg syndrome also known as, Willis-Ekbom disease is a condition characterised by a nearly irresistible urge to move the legs, typically in the evenings. This is a common disorder that is found more than 10 million people in India. It usually happens when a person is at rest, when they are sleeping or sitting down and will be worse during evenings and nights where they feel itching or pulling sensations. This like all the other sleep disorders will affect the quality of one’s sleep and needs to be checked out by a specialist.

“I will do it in a minute, I will do it in an hour, I’m sleepy I will do it tomorrow, I can always take the retest, is that a butterfly that I absolutely have to look at  for an entire hour rather than open my book?”

Procrastination is something that everybody does by claiming they “work better” under pressure. While that may be the case for some people, procrastination is a nasty habit that once you get the hang of it, you cannot break away. You give yourself nonsensical excuses to put away an action that requires your conscious effort. Everything else becomes so much interesting and captivating when you have an exam the next day or have an assignment to submit. That one five minutes long life hack video that you put on to take a break will spiral out of  hand and turn into a two hour long documentary about an alien abduction. The next thing you know, it is the morning of the day of your test and you are scrambling to stuff your brain with an overload of information feeling like your brain is about to explode. Although it seems amusing and silly, this kind of habit can have a damaging effect on your studies or career. It causes you alot of unnecessary stress that can harm your health in a very physical way and reduces the quality of your work as you are prone to make more mistake and under the pressure of time limit you will forget to revise. College students know better than anybody the value of highly caffeinated drinks on the day of their exams. It becomes a barrier between you and you productivity and in extension, your success. It can also take a toll on your mental health as well, especially your self esteem and make you feel worthless. This feeling of insecurity can further your problems with procrastination. It is of the utmost priority that you brake this cycle for your own good since this is certainly not the best way to acquire your goals or a healthy way of approaching the problems in your life.