[MUSIC] So why should you care about stress? Because some of you may be thinking that well yeah, this is going to apply to adults. This is not going to apply to me. I'm only in my twenties. I'm not going to have heart disease. I'm not going to have a stroke. I go to bed at 4am because I want, to not because I have insomnia. I know some some of you are laughing but don't laugh. So why should you care about stress? So now I need two hands and I'm not going to give you the microphone but I repeat your answer. Why should you care about stress? And I already know some of your names. So you either volunteer or I'm going to ask students who I already know. Carson, you're smiling. So why should you care? Exactly, because it's bad for us and it releases cortisol and all those diseases that I meant that I listed in this slide, they can happen to all of us. And here is the data, so we know that right now college students are stressed out more than ever. I have been following the data on stress level on college campuses for the past 10 years. This is how the data looks like, it's getting worse and worse and worse. It's moving up. And we have a number of studies suggesting that, one is this national survey of student engagement UCLA, American freshman study, surveys 100 thousands of college students every year and this is what they have been deporting. New York Times published an article for a front page article not too long ago on this topic. And National College Health Assessment is another study that reports stress. So now the question is what are your stressors? I want you to talk to your neighbor or somebody who's sitting behind you and come up with top two stressors in your life. Like what are your stressors? So who wants to volunteer if you and they can be from this slide because you guys already have their slides. So who wants to name a few stressors? And I show you a trick. If you don't want to say this is your stressor, say that my friend told me he or she gets stressed out. So this way you're completely anonymous. Okay, what are some of your stressors? This side, guys what are some of your stressors, name two, shout two. I'm sorry. Work, school, you said school? Yes, tuition. Very good. Who else? Work, school, tuition. What else, relationships. Absolutely, what else? Yes. People who walk slowly. Okay. So let's review some of the ones that I have on the slide, schools/grades. I think this is something that you all agree with me, right? Is there any student in the class who said I have no problem. Everything is good, I'm chill, school is great, no stress. Yes. Once somebody raised his hand and I was so impressed and then he said, I'm not a student, I'm like okay, great. Family, does your family stress you? Friends, friends are supposed to relax you, but sometimes they can stress you, relationships, the boyfriend or the girlfriend. How about financial obligations? This is actually one of the top stressors right now among our students and unfortunately it's not getting better. Future, how many of you are sitting there and thinking that I know exactly what my future is. I'm going to graduate with my undergrad degree and I already have a job lined up and I'm going to make, 100,000, 50,000 a year. No. Okay. So future. Lack of time and we are going to talk about that. And there are other things that some of them you mentioned. So this is the problem because stressed students eat more, stressed people in general. I have students on this slide because we have mostly, hopefully, I don't know who is in the class. Maybe we have some non students, but stressed students eat more. They exercise less. They are grumpy. How many of you get grumpy when you're stressed? Especially if I am stressed and I didn't eat enough and my sugar level is low, it's like double, unhappy. They are often late. They are insomniacs. They have poor mental health and other factors. So what I am going to focus on in the next slide is one bullet that you see on this slide, which has another its own epidemic. Yes, we have an epidemic of stress. But the problem is that stress is not just one thing. I can't diagnose you, I can't say that Chiana, you're stressed out, Emy you're stressed out. That is your diagnosis. The problem is that if we stay stressed out for too long, what we see in our students, in college students is poor mental health and this is what I'm going to spend some time on. So, poor mental health is definitely an outcome of stress. And these are the newest data. These are data from 2019 mental health of undergrad students in 2019. So when we looked at college students nationwide in 2019, we found that 88% of them felt overwhelmed with all they had to do, 85.7% in 2015. And if you look at this data only in 2010 is much less. It was almost a little bit over 50%. So we're really not doing a good job here. 72% of them felt very sad, 46% felt so depressed that it was difficult to function, 66% felt overwhelming anxiety and 14% seriously considered suicide and 2.3% attempted suicide. And this last bullet, I take that very personal because two of my own students have attempted suicide and I tell you that it was the hardest thing that I had ever experienced in my life getting the phone call from the parents. So I know this is real and I know what mental health can do, but we are here to talk about how we can address it and how we can make sure by managing our stress, we don't get here. The reason that I teach this course is not because I needed one more course to teach. I already had enough on my plate. I felt that this course was needed. And the reason that you see videographers in the class is that we are trying to create a version of life on a one that can be offered to all UCI students and UC students. So I got a grant from University of California, Office of President UCOP to develop a version of life on a one for all UC undergrad students because we don't want this. We should not have these statistics. You guys are too young to have this and hopefully we can achieve that. So now let's talk about the stressors and before we do that, I forgot to mention that this is a book that a friend of mine, Kristi Hugstad wrote, I have a copy of it here and at the end of the class when you are leaving, you can each have your own copy. So she donated copies of this book. It's a must read for all of you. Even if you don't have mental health, even if you have never attempted, this is not for somebody who says, I need this because I attempted suicide. This is for everybody. It's not just for that student, it's for everybody because it also helps you. It also teaches you to help other students. And this is why I read this. And I think it's a great book. So please make sure you pick up your copy of this book before you leave and we have boxes on both sides. The new version of book is out. The new edition is called, Beneath the Surface. But the information that you find in this book is good enough. But if you want to buy the second edition, this is there. And it says the teens guide. And you may say, well I'm not in high school anymore. It applies to everybody. To me this is a must read for everyone.
