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The stress associated topic: COPING WITH A STRESSFUL EVENT


Everyone has had to cope with a stressful event over their lifetime, and each day every person is bombarded with images, sounds and details that can sometimes overwhelm you. The level of stress that is manageable varies from person to person, depending on their everyday lifestyle and how they have been bought up as a child. But when it comes to coping with an event that is impacting on your everyday routine, many people have no idea how to handle the problem sufficiently.

Coping with a stressful event can impact greatly on a person's mental and physical health:
  • depression
  • lack of sleep
  • loss of concentration
  • unable to compete well in physical activities
  • constant anger


Someone having to Cope with a stressful event can also impact greatly on the environment around them:
  • getting angry at the people around them
  • an angry or violent air about them
  • pushing friends away
  • having a dirty and untidy living space
  • not caring about the way they look

Some of the actions or strategies you can take to cope with the stress:
  • leaving enough time for musical or artistic relaxation time ( to calm down)
  • getting enough sleep
  • thinking about the stress topic from a different point of view
  • talking to close friends about the stressful situation
  • talking to a professional about the situation.
  • meditation. relax you mind and forget your troubles.
  • exercise. Exercising helps to control your thought pattern better and get rid of the hormones in your body that are the result of stress.
  • avoid topics of conversation that get on your nerves. For example if your having family problems, try not to have a conversation with someone about family.
  • focus on the positive side of the stressful situations your placed in.
  • Write in a Diary of some kind, because if you aren't able to talk to anyone else about your stressful situation the next best thing is talking to yourself.


The various levels of support offered to someone going through stress can be individual, communal and with the government. Three examples of the type of stressful event and the support that can be offered to are:
  • Being sexually harassed:
Individual-Councillors
Communal- Awareness programs.
Government- The illegality of it.
  • Parents getting divorced
Individual- Councillors
Communal- Schools teach students about divorce at school.
Government- government gets involved with the exchange of money and which parent pays what to give their children education.
  • Being forced to leave the country you've grown up in.
Individual- Councillors
Communal- Internet websites can be used to communicate to peers across the world.
Government- Jobs can be done on the computer and so the job your parents have wouldn't be lost.



Numbers To call:

Sexually Harassed-
Kids Helpline is an organisation made to help people from the age of 5-25 deal with the stress in their lives by talking to a councillor that they are able to call over kids help line.
  • 1800 200 526
The confidential 24 hour National Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault helpline to talk with experienced counsellors.
  • 1800 200 526
Confidential Helpline - National Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault helpline

Parents getting divorced-
Information on Australia's implementation on the National Convention on the Rights of the Child

Provides information and advice on your legal rights

Provides information and advice on family law, separation and divorce

Leaving the country you've grown up in-

Helps to manage the stress you may be going through

How to help manage the stress of moving

Shows different meditational ways to deal with moving to a different country or city.