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Social Soldiers Egg Hunt!

The Easter bunny seems to have dropped an egg. To get the egg, reblog with an answer!

🥚What is one myth we can destigmatize about the autism spectrum? 🥚

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What is stress?

Stress is a physiological and emotional response to ‘’fear and threat’’. Stress can be good or bad, depending on how we look at it. Stress can affect our physical health, cognition, thoughts, feelings, and actions. When you are exposed to stress in the long term there may be a chance of ‘’loss of physical and mental endurance’’, which makes you lose concentration, and also have mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and other symptoms. At the same time, the immune system worsens, making it easy to get ill.

Stress Management

We should not aim to eliminate stress, but rather learn how to relax, using positive thinking and attitude to face various difficulties and changes in life, the feeling of stress will naturally decrease. Meditation exercises target an overactive sympathetic fight or flight response nervous system to help immediately relieve heart rate and muscle contraction. When practiced long term, they help increase parasympathetic nervous system functions, making it easier for the body to enter a relaxed state. Sources:

https://www.stress.org/what-is-stress

https://eocinstitute.org/meditation/meditation-relaxes-your-nervous-system/

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6 Things I Love About 7Cups

As a member:

7 cups is a place where I can vent about my problems to listeners that are non-judgemental and volunteer their time to help. There are plenty of listeners so there is always someone out there that understands and makes me feel less alone.

Group support! So many different chatrooms where you can talk about particular difficult situations or just hang out and talk about your interests with fellow members.

Self-help guides that improve my knowledge and expert advice on mental health issues.

As a listener:

I adore the forums there are so many different activities icebreakers learning about different coping methods support on how to be a better listener, information on mental health issues so I can support my members better

Listener chatrooms where I can receive emotional support when a chat didn’t go so well or hear suggestions from others when I’m on a 1-on-1 chat I don’t know what to do

The nonjudgemental friendly relationships I have with fellow listeners and my repeated members. They accept my flaws and also are open-minded to my opinions.

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4A Method of Stress Management

1) Avoid. This means learning how to say No, avoiding situations that make you feel stressed, controlling your surroundings so that it's not as stressful, reducing your to-do list

2) Alter. This means trying to express your feelings, creating a balanced timetable for yourself. Attempting to relieve the situation/carrying out agreements

3) Adapt. Rethink the situation, using different perspectives to identify the truth of the situation. Increase/use open-mindedness to look at the situation. Modify your standards a little bit. Practice gratitude.

4) Accept. Don't try to control things that are not under your powers/control. Think positively. Practice forgiveness. Accept failure/difficulties/loss.

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7 cups expert article

Today I’m sharing the article ‘’How to let go of the need for approval’’. Let’s face it, we all like being praised by others, it feels validating. However when you’re constantly getting approval from others, it doesn’t mean that you’re not worthy or doing great things, but it can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking thoughts like ‘ I’m not good enough’, ‘I’m not smart’, ‘I’m not attractive’ etc etc. The same goes for the reverse, someone saying you’re ‘’enough’’ does not mean you should stop improving or remain stagnant in whatever you’re working on because what others say is a subjective opinion, not an objective fact, meaning it’s not necessarily true. These are my personal insights, now let’s look at the article.

Dr Cohen first begins describing the process of seeking approval, you work hard on something, you get people to like you. However this process of seeking approval from ‘’outside sources’’ can cause problems.

When we want to please outside sources like people, we seek approval from them. When they don’t give us what we want to get we get disappointed, we set ourselves up for things we don’t really want. We don’t dare to do things we may enjoy but they would disapprove. As a result, we miss opportunities to learn how to approve ourselves even when it’s not provided by others. You may reject potential opportunities because you start fearing FAILURE from pleasing people or trying something new that you aren’t used to doing but would like to do. Therefore it’s important to analyse objectively how much ‘’seeking approval’’ impacts your wellbeing and then set a plan on how to prioritise things that are right for you!

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Song reminding me of 7cups

I choose Hurricane by Halsey because to me it’s about self-confidence, caring about and improving yourself without worrying about what others think of you