How to Stay Stressed
As one of the most stressful times of year arrives - those last few weeks before finals and move-out - remind your student that there are plenty of ways to keep himself stressed, such as:
• Eat anything you want
• Never exercise
• Personalize all criticism
• Break off friendships
• View everything as extreme
• Make more promises than you can keep
• Forget your sense of humor
• Never ask for help
• Become a workaholic
• Discard all time management skills
• Get very little sleep
• Break all boundaries
• Procrastinate
• Worry about things you can?t control
• Set impossible standards
• View all challenges as problems
• Never take time off
Once that's out of the way, he'll be better able to assess his own level of stress and how he is managing - or mismanaging - it. You're providing a valuable mirror to help him reflect on and, hopefully, improve his quality of life.