Feeling a bit stressed?

By now those of you who had a break are back into work life, with school and university not too far away. It is worth thinking about managing the stresses some will feel when day to day life combines with the ongoing annoyances, frustrations, and perversities of post-earthquake life.

Here are some of the resources available. Click on the name of the organisation to go to the relevant web site. If in doubt, contact one of us.

If it is the weekend, or the middle of the night, try one of these lifted from the Canterbury Web Health page.

• Victim Support 0800 842 846  24/7. Telephone contact. People may need to leave their details and a volunteer will ring them back.
• Samaritans 0800 726 666  24/7. National telephone listening and support service staffed by volunteers.
• Lifeline 0800 543 354  24/7. Trained telephone counsellors.

otherwise check out the following:

Children

• Canterbury Web Health  on helping children cope.

• Massey University a range of downloadable information to help children, adolescents and adults.

• Ministry of Education - No web site. Ring (03) 378 7300 - 8am to 5pm weekdays. Counsellors available to parents and schools to discuss the trauma reactions of children.

• New Zealand Council for Educational Research (a bit wordy and academic, not much immediately practical stuff and probably aimed at teachers and counsellors)

Business people

• Rebuild Christchurch

Everyone

• Anxiety Support Canterbury

• Canterbury District Health Board

• Canterbury Web Health  (probably the best place to start)

• Massey University a range of downloadable information to help children, adolescents and adults.

• Ministry of Health general

• Ministry of Health Christchurch earthquake - coping with stress

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