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There is more evidence that more younger people are feeling burnt out.
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There is more evidence that more younger people are feeling burnt out.
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There is evidence that more younger people have increasing levels of difficulties like anxiety or depression.
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I'm probably not even graduating till I'm 24.
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The feeling of being left behind is so, so overwhelming to me.
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Like, it consumes my whole being.
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Morning, it's quarter past seven in the morning.
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I'm in my flat in London.
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we're starting the episode in a bit of a different location today
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because I thought I would bring you guys on my journey
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into work I can't lie I'm a little bit late I
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don't know how I've managed to do it again okay I
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have about a 20 minute walk to the tube station London is not kind
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when you're late and I've made it that was pretty painless compared to normal
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I'm just gonna have to frantically search for my past so I can actually get into the BBC building
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okay I'm back I'm Ikra this is what in the world from the BBC World Service
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that was a bit of my morning it might be similar
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to some of you guys as well one thing's for sure
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that overwhelmed feeling hits most of us at some point in our day
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and that's what we're getting into today I know there's a bunch of TikTok videos out there about this
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so we wanted to talk about why we're all feeling
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so stressed and overwhelmed in our lives and how we get around it too.
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We've got some of your questions and we're putting them to the BBC presenter and psychologist Claudia Hammond.
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She's also written a book about being overwhelmed, it's called Overwhelmed.
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Claudia's right here right now.
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Hey Claudia.
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Hi, thanks for having me.
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Yeah, thank you for coming.
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I know we've got a bunch of questions to get through.
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Before we get to the questions though.
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I wanted to actually get into the definition of overwhelm.
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When we say overwhelm, what do we mean?
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What is that?
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So overwhelm is an emotional state where you are struggling with your current situation.
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So you might feel overloaded,
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you might feel you can't cope.
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And that might be a temporary thing, hopefully.
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But if it's not in the longer term,
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if that becomes more of a kind of chronic kind of stress,
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then that might lead to burnout in the end.
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Yeah.
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And have you noticed this has become more common for Gen Z?
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I see all the TikTok videos about burnout, stress.
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There is more evidence that more younger people are feeling burnt out.
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There is evidence that more younger people have increasing levels of difficulties like anxiety or depression.
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And it is a time of transition when you're young.
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There's so much uncertainty.
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There's uncertainty about your own life.
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There's uncertainty about what's happening in the world as well.
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There's uncertainty about what will happen with the world in the future if you think about things like climate change.
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There's a lot going on.
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I'm glad you said it.
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So I guess let's focus on different aspects of life.
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And we look at social media.
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It's so easy to pick up your phone and you've got that instant access to whatever is going on in the world.
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There can be a lot of bad stuff going on in the world.
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How does that affect how overwhelmed we feel,
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that kind of instant access?
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Yeah, if people find themselves,
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you know, doom scrolling and looking,
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looking for the bad news in a way and then carrying on
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and on looking at that bad news and getting alerts all the time that are telling them what's happening in the world,
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then when it's bad, there is evidence that that can be damaging for people.
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There was a really interesting study that was done after a Boston Marathon bombing that took place in 2013.
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And there were some people even back then who all watched more than six hours a day of coverage of it,
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either on TV, on rolling news or online.
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And they found that those people who did that actually had more acute stress than people who were actually at the bombing,
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which seems really extraordinary but it's because
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if you keep watching the worst bits of it there's no beginning middle
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and end if you are actually there thankfully the experience does end in the end
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and so if people find themselves drawn to watching negative things all the time we know
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that if they're already in a low mood they're more likely to then carry on looking for negative things
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and then that puts them in a lower mood again
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so I think we do have to be careful how we
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how we consume news of what's going on do you need to know immediately do you have to have alerts
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that tell you immediately when a news story has happened
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or would it be okay to find out at the end of the day?
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Something that me and my sister talk about a lot
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when it comes to overwhelm
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and social media is I sometimes say to her why do
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you not reply to my messages like I know you've you've seen them instantly
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when they come up on your phone
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and she says sometimes I just get overwhelmed when
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when I see the messages or there's a few coming through
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or maybe there's not even a few coming through but there's like they're building up,
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you know, a backlog that she needs to reply to.
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And I've heard a few of my friends say that too.
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So why does that happen?
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Yeah, I think there can be a real pressure because we've got messages coming in by loads of different methods now.
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And it is really hard to stay across those and answer them all immediately.
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And especially when people know whether you've seen the message,
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then it feels rude if you don't answer.
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But then that can add to the pressure of all the other things you've got to do as well.
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And maybe at that moment,
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you didn't want to engage with that person,
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not because you don't like them at all just
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because you're thinking about something else you know maybe you're watching something uh
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so you're watching a film
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or something maybe you're chatting to friends maybe you're out you
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know enjoying nature maybe you don't want to be interrupted at
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that moment and that that's okay
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so i think in a way we need to um give ourselves a bit less of a hard time about
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that um and not expect to be able to be perfect
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and answer everything straight away
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but also to to let our friends off a bit you know
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if to not take it personally if they don't answer straight away it's not
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because they hate you it's because they're doing something else okay Maybe I'll give my sister a break.
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Give her a break.
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And we know sometimes big news headlines can make us feel overwhelmed.
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Sometimes these headlines hit closer to home as well.
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We have heard from someone who's experiencing just that.
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Here's Sonia, who's from Ukraine.
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I felt overwhelmed lately because of all the news about my country and the world in general.
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It just feels like the future is so unpredictable and hectic and it's very hard to build any plans.
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And what's really helpful for me is to stay off with social media as long as possible
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and also go to the gym regularly.
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So, Claudia, Sonia there mentions about going to the gym as a really helpful tool for her.
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Is that something you would recommend?
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What other ways can we kind of help ourselves?
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Totally.
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I think it's really important to find the activity that you find helps you switch off.
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And this will be different for different people
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and I did a big piece of research on this where some people it was exercise,
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15% of people told us that exercise was the thing
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that allowed them to rest in a way that allowed all those thoughts in their brain to stop whirring around.
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But for other people, you know,
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it might be watching a video,
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it might be reading a book reading actually came top
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and I think particularly if like Sonia you're living through a difficult uncertain situation it's
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so important to find those moments where you do the thing
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that will make you feel a bit better
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and feel a bit more restored moving on to I guess another big stressor that hits a lot of our lives,
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exams, being in school, it can be a huge source of overwhelm.
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We've actually heard from someone who's going through just that as well.
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This is Mari Somi, who's from Finland.
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Let's have a listen.
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So I come from a background of two very different cultures,
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but the common thing in these cultures are succeeding in life.
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And I think quite many people my age or that come from a family
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where academic succeeding is a priority can feel the pressure of having to fulfill people's sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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So, in my country in Finland,
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at high school we have matriculation exams on our last years of high school,
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months of studying and preparation for these exams that last 6-8 hours in a big hall.
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there is
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so much pressure on literal 18 years olds to make huge life decisions about what they want to do
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or have as a career it can become quite overwhelming to constantly think how you can be better
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or do better and when you for the first time don't meet the unrealistic expectations
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and feel the disappointment that's the point you never want to go back to how does she deal with
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that pressure yeah it's hard isn't it and six to eight hour exams wow
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that does sound hard yet when the pressure comes from outside
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that can be really difficult and there is this thing called socially prescribed perfectionism
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which is where other people
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which might be your school it might be your parents it
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might be others it might be society are expecting you to be perfect
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and that feels really difficult now sometimes it's the case
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that we might be misinterpreting that pressure
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and they might not be quite as harsh on you as you imagine you know
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if you ask most parents
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if you say to them what what you really want they
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will say they want their child to be really happy
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but they also want them to have you know the best start in life
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and the best opportunities
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and getting them to work hard for their exams is one way of doing
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that but I think it's very normal
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and I think an important thing for Murray to remember is
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that it's very normal to feel stressed while all this is going on
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and that actually to tell yourself one of the reasons you feel
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so stressed is that this is something that's really important to you
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and this is something that really matters and
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that also particularly in the exam itself if you feel stressed then just knowing
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that you well may well perform better while you're stressed
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that this it concentrates the mind it sharpens
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and your nerves sharpen your thinking and allow you to really do your best
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and if as you're sitting down to that exam beforehand you
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or you're thinking I'm really really worried about this I feel really really stressed
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that stress is actually helping you to do better it's helping
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you to perform like like an actor on a stage feels
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nervous beforehand they need to feel a little bit nervous
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if they were too laid back they might not do their very best performance.
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It's good to hear that stress can be the fuel,
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it can be a good thing as well.
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Sticking with the theme of school we've got Yusara who's from Bangladesh.
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She's studying at the moment,
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she's just started her university applications.
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Here she is.
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The university admission system in Bangladesh is very very hectic.
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For example in the last one
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and a half months I've sat for nine different exams
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and it's it's very and the competition is so
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so fierce for example the last exam
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that i sat for had six thousand plus applicants
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and they're only going to take hundred of them
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so getting in is nothing short of a miracle
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and nine exams like that competitive are somewhere even more competitive than
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that so it's it has taken a toll on me
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and I've been so overwhelmed and also the fact
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that people who are my age or even a two
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or three years older than me living in another country
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and I see them getting graduated graduating and getting their own apartments
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or like even getting a big girl job
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and all I can think of is I'm probably not even graduating till I'm 24 and I don't know,
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the feeling of being left behind is so overwhelming to me.
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It consumes my whole being.
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So Yusra speaks there about feeling left behind,
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especially on social media and how that can contribute to things.
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What would you say about that?
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I guess it's a feeling a lot of us can relate to.
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Totally, and such a horrible feeling as well.
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And I think one of the difficulties with social media is,
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of course, that you used to be able to only compare yourself to,
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say, I don't know, the rest of your class,
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and you may well be top of your class,
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but now you can compare with everybody else.
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So now you can compare with millions of people who we know are very much curating what's on their social media feeds,
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and we know people will do this in loads of ways.
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People on average now are less satisfied with their appearance,
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and how much of that is down to who they're able to compare themselves with now on social media,
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but also in terms of success as well.
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And I think it's really hard
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because what you're seeing is the other people who are all going on to do these things.
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And you're often not seeing the people in just the same situation who are also waiting,
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you know, and feeling frustrated at not knowing what's going to happen.
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And so then I think it's a question of really trying to take things one step at a time.
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Things really often do work out.
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And I know that sounds really easy to say,
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but it may not feel like that at this moment.
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But these periods of transition,
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it's really normal to feel uncertain about those.
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It's been really good to hear all these different experiences,
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tapping into feeling overwhelmed.
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So if someone's listening and thinking,
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I want some top tips on just feeling overwhelmed generally in my life,
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what would you say to them?
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So first, I would say,
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accept that your to-do list is never going to end.
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It is always going to be there.
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So even I know that might sound defeatist,
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but even if you get to the end of it today,
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tomorrow, there will be something else on it.
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And that's just life.
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And then I think the second thing is to to really ask what is good enough?
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you know how do I have to be perfect at everything
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or will good enough do
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and then the third thing I'd say is to to take rest seriously
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and be really kind to yourself and
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that could make a real difference thank you I'm going to take those on board as well Claudia it's been
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so good to to have you come by
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and answer those questions thank you so much you're really welcome
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and if any of you guys have managed to find your own ways to beat feeling
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that overwhelmed feeling I want to hear from you remember you can comment below like
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and subscribe i'm ikra this is what's in the world from the bbc world service
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and we'll see you next time bye
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