How to Manage Back to School Stress 

By Moira Andrews 

Back to school can be a stressful time for students of all ages. Many students don’t know how to manage the overwhelming feeling associated with the new school year. Here are a few tips and tricks to calm your nerves and manage day to day life while attending school. 

According to Harvard summer school Division of Education, staying calm by writing in a journal, meditating, and getting enough sleep can be very beneficial. Sometimes simple things like that aren’t enough to calm your nerves. If you have harder classes it can be even more difficult. If your stress gets too bad, its best to talk to your guidance counselor and figure out your next steps. 

What is stress? According to mind.org.uk, stress is how we feel under pressure or in a threatening situation. Medline plus states that it is a feeling a physical or emotional tension. There are many definitions of stress, but the real question is, how do we manage it? When do people tend to stress more?  

When asked about stress and the impact it’s having on our youth, Angel Beckett, a student in Law enforcement, said, “Stress is a problem that can be hard to deal with and it may get worse during the school year due to the pressure that students face over the first couple of weeks. It can be caused by even the smallest of things, and it can often snowball in to something major if you don’t find the proper way to treat it. I truly think that more and more students are having to deal with this since the resources to cope with it are harder to come by and some adults may not understand that, but there are people out there who are willing to help, you just need to find them.” 

When asked whether he thought stress in teens is a problem, Tristin Krecota a student in Law enforement said, “Yes.”                                                        

There are many ways to manage stress, you just have to find the one the works for you.