Stress and Anxiety
This podcast series from Oxford University addresses stress and anxiety, common mental health issues among students. It covers signs, symptoms, causes, and practical strategies based on evidence-based psychodynamic approaches. The podcasts are not a replacement for professional help but aim to provide self-help ideas and understanding.
Episodes
Episode 6 – Taking the long view
This podcast encourages you to think about the bigger picture to help you to get some perspective on any stress and anxiety you might currently be experiencing, and includes drawing up a plan for how to feel less stressed and anxious in the future.
Episode 5 – How understanding what’s going on in our bodies, brains, and minds can help us to counteract stress and anxiety
This podcast considers how an awareness of what is going on in our bodies, brains, and minds from a physiological and neurological perspective can help us to counteract stress and anxiety, and includes ten practical strategies that can help.
Episode 4 – How can understanding our early childhood development help when we feel anxious now?
This podcast focuses on how an awareness of child development and our early childhood experiences can help us to explore and start to understand our current anxieties.
Episode 3 – Anxiety
This podcast investigates anxiety from a medical and a psychodynamic perspective, including formal diagnoses and other ways of categorising anxiety, plus an exercise on identifying potential causes of underlying anxiety.
Episode 2 – Stress
This podcast focuses on different kinds of stress: helpful and unhelpful stress, acute and chronic stress, and macro and micro-stress, and offers a practical way in which you can start to get some control back over any stress you might be experiencing.
Episode 1 – Introduction
This first podcast defines stress and anxiety, explores common causes of stress and anxiety amongst the student community at the University of Oxford, and outlines key signs and symptoms to look out for.
