{"id":21809,"date":"2014-10-15T11:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=21809"},"modified":"2014-10-15T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:37:38","slug":"how-to-deal-2003-with-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/10\/15\/how-to-deal-2003-with-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Deal (2003) with Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"Okay guys, let\u2019s be real: University can be stressful.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAnd the award for \u201cthe biggest understatement of the year\u201d goes to me!\r\n\r\n
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I'm a winner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nSeriously though \u2013 university can be stressful; I\u2019m not lying about that. Between your exams, assignments, tutorials, iClicker quizzes, extracurricular activities, friends, family, and everything else under the sun \u2013 it\u2019s pretty difficult to find time to just, you know, breathe.\r\n\r\nTrust me, I know. In honour of Mental Wellness\u00a0Month at U of T (and midterms), I thought it\u2019d be good to take a moment to talk about my experiences with stress. I want to talk about how I deal with stress \u2013 not how I dealt with stress \u2013 because stress for everyone is honestly an ongoing battle.\r\n\r\nAs someone with Depression, stress has always been something that I have dealt with, whether it is being stressed about things I should be stressed about, like exams, or being stressed for the sake of being stressed. Hi, my name is Ondiek, and I'm a stressed-out individual.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nI\u00a0won't\u00a0sugar coat it; it\u2019s a struggle. Depressive moods, stress, and apathy are enormously difficult for me to avoid, despite how proficient I\u2019ve become at masking it. I\u2019ve learned since I started University being able to hide it\u00a0not enough. I learned that as much as I wanted to; I\u00a0couldn't just lie down in melancholy waiting for my meds to kick in forever.\r\n\r\nI'm pretty much Cameron Frye, but that doesn't mean I can\u2019t try my best to be a Ferris.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n