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How to return from a stress-related sick leave

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It can be difficult to return to the environment that made you ill, but with the right tools, you can definitely overcome it and come back even stronger.

Table of contents

  • It can be difficult to return to the studies
  • Stress is widespread
  • The consultant’s good advice for returning after stress
  • You can be pressured, and you can be stressed

It can be difficult to return to the studies

If you have burned your fingers once at something hot, you are extra careful the next time. Maybe you know that feeling. And it is simply because the body learns and remembers the things that dangerous.

And it is a bit the same if it is your place of study that has triggered the stress reaction, then it can be really difficult to return. You may feel almost ready, and then you come back, and then it just hits you because you step into the environment that made you sick, says a work-life consultant from IDA with expertise in, among other things, handling stress.
Sita Borman, work-life consultant at IDA
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Stress is widespread

Over a quarter of Danes between 15-30 of age have had such severe stress symptoms that they have either consulted their doctor or been on sick leave from their education. And 54% have felt stressed all the time or most of the time in the past year. The figures come from the Youth Well-being Council, a network of various organizations working with young people.

Here, almost 2000 students from across the country have participated. So if you haven’t been affected by stress yourself, you most likely know someone who has. The causes can be many, but work-life consultant at IDA, Sita Borman, points to a number of internal and external factors as the reasons.

The external factors can, for example, be that there are more and more people in the classes or that the teachers are not good enough at coordinating assignments, so they pile up and thereby increase the pressure.

And then there are the internal factors, which include that we have a youth today who constantly evaluate themselves in relation to others. You compare your own insecure inner self with others’ seemingly secure outer selves.
Sita Borman, work-life consultant at IDA

You are therefore far from alone in having experienced stress, and that fact alone can be important to hold on to on the way back to life as a student.

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The consultant’s advice for returning after stress

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You can be under pressure, and you can be stressed

Stress is a biological reaction in animals and humans that helps us handle dangerous situations and challenges. The increased amount of adrenaline, high blood pressure, heart palpitations, and tense muscles are a good helper if you suddenly face a predator and need to flee or fight.

Fortunately, it is not often that what you encounter is a ferocious predator on the bike path, but there are plenty of other things that can trigger stress reactions. Also as a student. It is just important to remember that there is a difference between being pressured and being in a constant state of stress. Both trigger stress symptoms, but it is only the prolonged one that is harmful.

It may be that you have to meet a deadline for an assignment or an exam that is approaching. The point is that it is a limited period, after which you have the opportunity to wind down again. It is not dangerous as such. You get a bit more adrenaline in your body, which makes you think more clearly.
Sita Borman, work-life consultant at IDA

You should not fear the occasional episode where you may experience stress when you have returned to your studies. But the condition must not arise in situations that should not trigger stress symptoms.

Good luck with your return, and remember that you are not the only one who has had stress, and it is important that you take it at your own pace as much as your studies allow.

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