MANAGING STRESS: A TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL GETS EXPERT ANSWERS
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BY VEE WITZEL
HEADLINE NEWS EDITOR I once heard a statistic that the average level of anxiety in high school students today is equivalent to that of asylum patients in the 1950s. Personally, that feels really overwhelming. How are we supposed to deal with such high levels of stress? Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to ask several mental health professionals for insight into this issue and was able to ask what they thought the best coping skills or activities were to help with feeling overwhelmed. Here’s what they said: Upon being asked, Joe, who is a head nurse at his hospital, excitedly grabbed a piece of paper to draw a diagram. While drawing a picture of a brain, he told me, ¨Do something with your hands, like drawing, gardening, or squishing a stress ball.¨ Then he showed me the part of the brain dedicated to our five senses. ¨60% of this goes towards our hands, so doing something with them can help calm you down.¨ Tanya, who is a medical therapist, recommended, ¨crying or talking it out, either with another person or alone and with some sort of journal.¨ If you’re feeling overwhelmed and like you have too much to do, talking through all of it can be really helpful. |
Even making a list of everything that you have to do so it’s not just stewing in your mind making you worry can in itself help a lot. Keeping it to yourself and thinking about it constantly will only cause anxiety.
Finally, Kiri, who works as both a psychiatrist and a therapist, strongly recommended meditation. ¨Meditation is generally the most helpful coping skill in any stressful or anxious situation,¨ she said. Just as talking and getting everything out of your mind can help with anxiety, so too can not thinking about your issues at all for a little while. Looking up short, guided meditations on youtube is especially great if you’re a beginner and/or don’t have a WHOLE lot of time for meditation in your day. To put all of this into perspective, it’s really important to take good care of your mental health. Only a few different coping skills were mentioned in this article, but there are dozens more that you could try. Find some that work for you, so that you have something you can do when you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed. POSTED 4/11/22 |
BY SAM FURST
MIND & BODY EDITOR As a senior in high school I cherish my weekends because the stress from a long week at school can be a lot to handle. I asked around Corner Canyon what students liked to do on the weekends to see how others spend their time away from school whether they were going out or just staying home. Because I asked so many students what they liked to do on the weekend I got some great ideas on how to enjoy my time away from school. If you are a going out type of person here are some ideas for you… Classic Skating on Fridays at Classic Fun Center - especially because its disco night, Peak Nights Line dancing, Jordan Commons Movie Theater, Color Me Mine, Wick Lab, Night Skiing at Brighton, and bowling. No matter which one of these fun activities you do you are probably guaranteed to see some other CCHS students there as these are some of the most popular weekend spots to go. |
If you are more into staying at home here are some more ideas for you… have a spa day, favorite movie marathon, have a couple friends over, make or bake something by yourself or with friends, binge-watch Gilmore Girls, and SLEEP!
Staying home on the weekends is always nice especially if you don’t feel like going out but you can still have an enjoyable weekend just sitting at home with some friends. I have so many fun memories from my weekends spent during high school and have really learned that high school isn't just about what happens at school, it's also about the friends you meet and the memories you make together during your time spent away from school. So I encourage all readers to not take the high school time they have for guaranteed, it goes by way faster than you think and some of my best high school memories have been made from the fun weekends I have spent with friends. POSTED 3/17/22 |
ZODIAC MATCHMAKING
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BY SAM FURST
MIND & BODY EDITOR Before we dive into zodiac sign matchmaking let's break down the basics of what zodiac signs are, what they mean, and why they may be able to determine how a relationship will work out. Zodiac signs are directly connected to astrology, a sign of the zodiac refers to one of 12 specific constellations of the zodiac that the sun passes through. A person's particular sign of the zodiac is the one that the sun was in when they were born. Now because zodiac signs are based on birth dates they are believed to be able to predict people’s personalities thus allowing to compare sign compatibility. |
And here’s where it gets a bit confusing, each of the 12 zodiac signs are divided into 4 categories; fire signs, earth signs, air signs, and water signs. Each of the 4 categories are directly related to a set of personality traits… fire signs are compassionate, compulsive, and competitive, earth signs are grounded, loyal, and appreciative, air signs are intelligent, communicative, and analytical, and finally water signs are caring, cautious, and emotional.
But although the general 4 categories have traits, each of the 12 zodiac signs have their own personality traits too.
The basics are covered so let's get into some matchmaking! Fire signs (Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius) stereotypically tend to get along best with other Fire and Air signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn) often vibe best with other Earth and Water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. Air signs—Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius—match well with other Air and Fire signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. Water signs—Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces—will often find a good match with Water and Earth signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Matchmaking through zodiac signs is just for fun, if you and your significant other aren’t zodiac compatible don’t stress, different personalities often attract.
POSTED 3/17/22
But although the general 4 categories have traits, each of the 12 zodiac signs have their own personality traits too.
The basics are covered so let's get into some matchmaking! Fire signs (Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius) stereotypically tend to get along best with other Fire and Air signs: Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn) often vibe best with other Earth and Water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. Air signs—Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius—match well with other Air and Fire signs: Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. Water signs—Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces—will often find a good match with Water and Earth signs: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Matchmaking through zodiac signs is just for fun, if you and your significant other aren’t zodiac compatible don’t stress, different personalities often attract.
POSTED 3/17/22
10 Zodiac Best
MATCHES:
1. Aries and Aquarius
2. Taurus and Cancer
3. Gemini and Aquarius
4. Cancer and Pisces
5. Leo and Sagittarius
6. Virgo and Taurus
7. Libra and Gemini
8. Scorpio and Cancer
9. Sagittarius and Aries
10. Capricorn and Taurus
MATCHES:
1. Aries and Aquarius
2. Taurus and Cancer
3. Gemini and Aquarius
4. Cancer and Pisces
5. Leo and Sagittarius
6. Virgo and Taurus
7. Libra and Gemini
8. Scorpio and Cancer
9. Sagittarius and Aries
10. Capricorn and Taurus
DREAM ONBY PATRICK VAUGHN
SCIENCE & TECH EDITOR Every night you wake up and are in a new world. You live out entire stories, explore new worlds, yet none of it is real… Dreams. Science Is unclear on how it fully works or why. Some believe that it's you leaving your body to go to a new realm. I asked six students at CCHS about dreams and here's what they said: Do you believe dreams correlate to real life?
Anna Page 12th: “100% dreams are representative of life and what's happening or concerning you” Hannah Donaldson 11th: “Definitely, I’ve had a lot of big water dreams like tsunamis and floods killing ppl I know whenever I’m stressed irl” Sophia Nibley 10th: “yes I think all dreams have deep meanings and I love to look up things about my dreams to see what they’re about” Parker Kingdon 9th: “Yeah” Do you think dreams can predict the future? Anna Page 12th: “not predict the future but manifest it” Hannah Donaldson 11th: “I think your brain can make up possibilities that can or will happen, but I don’t think dreams predict the future” Sophia Nibley 10th: “I don’t know if they predict the future but I feel very strong deja vu and can relate them to a past dream and then expect something to happen in real life that happened in the dream but it doesn’t” Parker Kingdon 9th: “No” |
Dreams are a huge part of my life. I Don't know what they mean, I love to entertain the interpretations of what they mean about how I feel or what I can foresee, but ultimately they might not mean anything. I have long elaborate dreams that go on and play out like movies or video games. I often die in my dreams or see death. I die in my dreams almost weekly yet Nobody i surveyed claimed to have ever died in a dream. I have never lucid dreamed and every single time i've ever recognized that i am dreaming, i am immediately “expelled from the realm”.
What do you think about the idea that dreams are living outside of your body while asleep?
Anna Page 12th:”I don’t buy it. I don't think the human mind is powerful enough to do that haha” Hannah Donaldson 11th: “I think that if dreams are irl I’m a badass and reality makes no sense” “P2 I also think that that seems unlikely bc I almost always dream of ppl I know or things that I understand. And if it was a different reality I would dream of things I could never think of irl.” Sophia Nibley 10th: “I think that ideas super cool and I could see how that could relate to lucid dreaming, I think they could be us going to a different place in our unconscious similar to a dissociative identity disorder situation where we travel to different realities within our unconscious” Parker Kingdon 9th: That would a messed up dimension” Posted 2/20/22 |
