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[00:00:00] Speaker A: This show is not a substitute for professional counseling and no relationship is created between the show host or guests and any listener. If you feel you are in need of professional mental health and are a UA student, we encourage you to contact the UA Counseling center at 348-3863. If you are not a UA student, please contact your respective counties crisis service hotline or their local mental health agency or insurance company. If it is an emergency situation, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Foreign.
[00:00:40] Speaker C: Hey, guys, welcome back to the Bama Balance podcast. Real stories about college students, mental health, and, you know, today's a really, really fun day because we. Well, it's an interesting day, obviously. Well, not obviously. Dr. Perez isn't here today, so we have Michael Dobbs joining us. And while we always love getting to talk to Dr. Perez and we're sad that he's not able to join us, we are happy to have Michael the second ever returner to the Bama Balance podcast. Yeah, Henry Glover came on last week to be a co host.
[00:01:14] Speaker D: Yeah, I wasn't here last week.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: There we go.
[00:01:16] Speaker C: So you are in esteemed company.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: I love this. Well, thank you for having me.
[00:01:20] Speaker D: Yeah. Oh, yeah, we're pumped. It'll be fun. We got in here and nobody knows what we're going to talk about, so we'll figure it out at some point.
[00:01:27] Speaker C: We'll find something. It'll be a little off the rails, I'm sure, as we're, I mean, not strangers too. We, we've done, you know, you And I and Dr. Perez have done that before, but this one will definitely feel a lot different.
[00:01:40] Speaker D: No doubt, no doubt. How about Bama baseball? Come on now.
[00:01:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Back to back sweeps of ranked opponents.
You're not. Were you.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: I'm not. Well informed.
[00:01:52] Speaker D: Beat Auburn.
[00:01:53] Speaker C: Swept them.
[00:01:54] Speaker D: Swept them.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: There we go.
[00:01:55] Speaker D: They were number five team in the country.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: That's huge.
[00:01:57] Speaker C: And we run. Ruled them one game.
[00:01:59] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:01:59] Speaker C: We put it on them 11 to 1.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: So we're kind of like the best.
[00:02:05] Speaker C: We're better than them.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: That's all we need.
[00:02:06] Speaker D: Yeah, but my year's made. We're what, six zero in conference in prime sports against Auburn this year, which I would consider football, baseball, basketball, gymnastics, softball is the only thing I'd say that's like, those are our success sports.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:27] Speaker C: And we'll beat them in softball. I'll be shocked if they beat us.
[00:02:29] Speaker D: We've got a big game tonight. Texas number one. Oh, wow.
[00:02:33] Speaker C: I hate Texas so much.
[00:02:35] Speaker D: Baseball's at Oklahoma.
That'll be Tough.
Be real tough. Have yalls weeks been. Y' all been busy?
[00:02:45] Speaker C: I've been. I mean, it's weird. It's honors week right now, for those who don't know.
And honors week is just fun because you get to see just kind of you. It's very you. It feels like is the only week to me that feels like a game day, like, week.
Like, it feels similar to homecoming. Is that, like, just because the pageantry and everything going on.
[00:03:03] Speaker D: There is a lot going on. I get that.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: Like, all week, though. It's like a. All week.
[00:03:07] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: There's just, like, stuff happening, which is just fun to, like, walk by and see.
[00:03:11] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:03:12] Speaker C: But it also.
[00:03:13] Speaker D: I just saw Dr. Moore.
I'll bet. Dean Chimes and a bunch of people.
I wasn't sure what was going on there, but.
[00:03:19] Speaker B: Shout out, doctor, Something's going on.
[00:03:22] Speaker C: Something's happening. But no, he's the. He's the man. But, yeah, I just. Other than that, just school. How about. How are y' all feeling?
[00:03:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel great. It's been a. It's been a great week, for sure. Been a busy week, but serial complaints. Honors week is always fun, so it's always something to look forward to. Yeah. I'm gonna put it top three. Favorite week of the year.
[00:03:43] Speaker C: Like, UA year. Like, in general.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: UA year, UA year.
Which is kind of my whole year, too.
[00:03:48] Speaker C: What's your top three?
[00:03:49] Speaker D: Yeah. Oh, that's a great question. We're all gonna have to answer this one.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I said that. I. I can't think of other ones. Let's go full year.
[00:03:58] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Number one. Christmas week. It's kind of awesome.
[00:04:03] Speaker D: Christmas week is awesome.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
Spring break, Honors week, in that order.
[00:04:10] Speaker C: That's a good top three.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:13] Speaker D: Brooks.
I don't want y' all to think I'm, like, an awful person, but, I mean, Christmas is great, but I'm not gonna put it on here.
Fourth of July week. Oh, that's a good pull.
I'd say Iron bowl week.
Yeah.
Because you have something to look forward to.
[00:04:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:38] Speaker D: You're out of Thanksgiving week, I guess.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. I like that.
[00:04:41] Speaker D: You know, like, right after Thanksgiving, you're like, how am I getting either back to Auburn or back to Tuscaloosa.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:49] Speaker D: Last one.
I don't know. Probably Christmas. I'll put that three.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: You can't say that now. You said you weren't gonna say it.
[00:04:59] Speaker D: Okay, then.
God.
Probably the first week we're back at school, like, in class syllabus, start of the school year. I think Is a good.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: That is.
[00:05:15] Speaker D: Everybody's back together weeks are welcome. Yeah, Yeah.
[00:05:19] Speaker C: I got. I mean, honestly, I'll throw Honors Week up there. It's just. I also love Honors Week because I love the spring. Spring's my favorite season. I think usually the weather is really good around the time of Honors Week because it's like, you know, right now it's early April, but last year I'm pretty sure it was, like, March or maybe it was April, too. But I love, like, just springtime. So the most, like, Spring week to me is Honors Week.
I. I mean, now that you say 4th of July, 4th of July week's a lot of fun.
[00:05:45] Speaker D: Middle of the summer, middle of the
[00:05:47] Speaker C: summer, you get time off. I mean, well, we're students, so we already get time off, but, like, that's just a really fun week. I have a lot of really good Fourth of July memories. I think of just, like, doing, like, firework wars with friends and all that.
[00:06:00] Speaker D: Memorial Day week is also really. Also awesome because that kind of kicks off summer, I feel like. Yeah, Memorial Day.
[00:06:08] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know what three would be. I mean, now that you like. Iron bowl week's a lot of fun, too, just because Thanksgiving and, you know, the past, what, six years, we beat Auburn. So that's always like, almost starting to talk that as a win, it's always great automatically. Of course, I say that that's probably, like, you know, not going to be the case later, but I don't know.
[00:06:29] Speaker D: They're having an Iron bowl session at their practice, which is so funny. Weird to me is.
[00:06:34] Speaker C: I mean, I love it because it's like, we are so in their heads.
[00:06:37] Speaker D: No doubt.
[00:06:38] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:06:39] Speaker D: Well, I think any home football week when we're playing it is home football game because what is it? Wednesday night? Thursday.
Thursday, they start throwing the tents up, and it just starts to. This place has that will feel.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: And I will say before we play Tennessee, too, when they'll go around putting stickers on every, like, te.
[00:06:59] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:06:59] Speaker C: On every sign on campus. That's really fun.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: It's so much fun.
[00:07:03] Speaker D: Yeah, there's some good weeks.
[00:07:05] Speaker C: Weeks of. Man, I'm glad you. I'm glad you ranked them because they gave us something to.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: There we go. And I would like to clarify on the baseball thing, I have never played a day of baseball in my life, so I just don't watch it.
[00:07:17] Speaker D: Sweet.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I wasn't allowed to.
Yeah. Good fun fact there.
[00:07:21] Speaker D: Wow.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: That's a. I'll have to chew on that as we go into our first Break.
[00:07:25] Speaker D: But there we go.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back. For our first segment, you've been listening to the Bama Balance.
[00:07:46] Speaker D: Wvuafm, Tuscaloosa.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: This show is not a substitute for professional counseling and no relationship is created between the show hosts or guests and any listener. If you feel you are in need of professional mental health and are a UA student, we encourage you to contact the UA Counseling center at 348-3863. If you are not a UA student, please contact your respective counties crisis service hotline or their local mental health agency or insurance company. If it is an emergency situation, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
[00:08:30] Speaker D: What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Bama Balance. We have decided what we're going to talk about today. Yeah, finally.
Long deliberation.
Good. Good combo in the middle. We're going to talk about something that I think is very common and kind of just in today's age. It's very true. And that's the fact that calm can feel uncomfortable.
As a student, especially our nervous systems are, like, trained on stress. You know, you're always stressed out for a test, then you're looking forward to next week when it's like, Friday. Like, I mean, it's just stuff keeps stacking. But that second you get that calm moment where you can really unwind. If you don't notice that and take it and you continue to be stressed out, you're just gonna keep running your. Running your body to death.
[00:09:19] Speaker C: 100%.
[00:09:20] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: I mean, there's always something to worry about, without a doubt. It's like when we have that second of times, like, I have nothing to think about.
Especially for our generation, we don't know what to do. Like, okay, what do I do now? I need to be doing something. Something productive, something to worry about again.
[00:09:37] Speaker C: So the quiet, like, I hate quiet now, like, at least. Or I hate, like, the initial quiet when I'm able to, like, get over, kind of, like retrain myself and like, after the moments of being like, I don't like not doing anything. It's like, it's good because then I'm able to kind of feel like I'm kind of working off some stress. But, I mean. Yeah. Comfortable or the. What. What is it you said? Like, the uncomfortableness of calm can feel comfort, feel uncomfortable. Like, it's such a weird thing because you, like, you would think that that's how you become comfortable. But because we're training our bodies to. In our Minds to kind of exist in this way. And part of it is just the nature of being a student, I feel, which is the unfortunate reality that like, you have, oh, it's a test this week, a test next week, so much homework. This, that. This, like, it. It is something that is very much so not unavoidable, but like, it feels like that in a lot of ways.
[00:10:31] Speaker D: Yeah, I agree. As I'm sitting here thinking about it one, I mean, like, I'm trying to think of any jobs that don't have, you know, stuff they have to do at a certain time. Like, even doctors are stressed out maybe about a surgery that they have to wake up to tomorrow to work on somebody.
Accountants have a deadline they have to meet. So I think that just kind of sits in the back of your head no matter what. But another thing for me is like, I. I struggle to feel totally calm and not feel uncomfortable when I'm here.
Like when I'm laying down on my couch in my room, like, there's always something. Like, it's like, well, should I wash clothes?
I mean, stuff like that, that may not even be school related, but when I go home is when I feel like I can truly be calm and not have to worry about exactly a ton of stuff. I think it's because I'm being taken out of the school environment.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: It's like a productivity thing when you're here. Yeah, like, I need to be doing something as a student here consistently. And I think, like, the calm, like, you need for, like true calm, you need some quiet. We are never in a quiet environment. There's always something going on. Especially for me. Like, if I have a quiet environment, I mainly ruin it with music. I like, I play music on my phone or something.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: I'm the same way.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Like, being. Having a quiet environment is so important. Like, we never, we never have that.
[00:11:55] Speaker C: It. It's weird. Like, I think about last Linda, last spring. I was here for a week before I went home. I can't remember why. I think I was like, had some kind of meeting or something and like, pushed it off till like the, like, right. Like, like a week after finals. And for that week I was like, this is weird because I'm in Tuscaloosa. But I was just like, I have nothing to do. I'm done with classes. I'm not working yet because, like, my internship didn't start for another like, two weeks.
Like, like, what do you do? And it was, it was so weird. And I felt uncomfortable the entire week, at least in the beginning, because Everyone was gone. And I. And I was like, had all this time all of a sudden. But I think it towards the end, you know, you kind of. Your body starts to kind of adjust.
But I agree with you, like, going home, I never feel like. I never feel like that because it's like that mentally is such a place where I can just understand that, okay, this is like, chill time, if that makes sense. I think it's just always like, okay, I'm here.
Let me go for a walk. Let me understand, like, I have no responsibilities down here.
[00:13:03] Speaker D: And I think most of the times it's important to realize, like, I mean, if your body is constantly go, go, go, and you don't get rest, like, you're. You're not helping your body at all. You're not, dang sure, not helping your brain and your mental health just because, like, I mean, you need time. There's. There's a reason you go to sleep. Like, you know, you need sleep. Just like you need sleep. You need some time to yourself and time to be unstressed and not worry. But that is. I mean, the truth of the matter is that's hard to do in college, no doubt.
[00:13:36] Speaker C: I mean, I had a friend who would, like, stay up till 2am studying every night, and I was like, if you just, like, got like, if you just went to bed earlier, you would do better on a test. And then like, he did one night and was like, wait, that was.
[00:13:47] Speaker D: That worked?
[00:13:48] Speaker C: I was like, yeah, because you're waking up, like, four hours of sleep, and your brain can't even. If you have all the information, you can't, like, operate with it because you. It's running on fumes.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: I feel like half the students here at UA are, like, sleep deprived consistently.
[00:14:01] Speaker D: Oh, for sure.
I mean, I don't get enough sleep.
[00:14:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I don't get the eight hours.
[00:14:07] Speaker D: Never.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: No.
[00:14:08] Speaker D: Very rare.
[00:14:09] Speaker B: I wish I did.
[00:14:10] Speaker C: If I get eight hours, something either
[00:14:12] Speaker D: really good or really bad, I do it to myself. Like, yeah, I mean, I'm always, like, watching a movie.
Sometimes that'll get me eight hours because I'll get tired in the movie. But most of the times I'll start scrolling on, like, Instagram or TikTok or something and it just ruins my night. Like, I mean, I'm up for another hour.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: Do y' all ever do this? Y' all ever, like, have a night where you don't have anything and you're like, you like, I'll do this. I'll tell myself, I'm gonna go to bed. Like, 10:30 tonight. And it gets to like 10 o'. Clock. And then I'm either just like, I'll find ways to distract myself to keep myself from going to bed every night. And then it's like I look up my phone. Oh, it's midnight. All right, cool. Guess that that didn't work at all.
[00:14:54] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm bad about it. I'm very bad about it. What are some ways, though, that y' all feel like you take a little time to yourself and you can kind of drown the noise if there are. Anyways,
[00:15:09] Speaker B: like, I kind of spoke on earlier.
I think music's like my main one. Like. Like, it's like my alone time to sit down, listen to some music like no one else. Like, no conversation. It's like, I guess my version of quiet when I should.
[00:15:23] Speaker D: I feel like quiet, like, doesn't mean it has to be, like, silent, you know, like, as long as you're not running your mind crazy thinking about stuff or, like, sitting around a ton of people. Like, I mean, you need some time to yourself. I think.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: Yeah, 100%. I think I try to be outside in those moments.
[00:15:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:15:41] Speaker C: Being outside helps me a lot to kind of internalize things and work things off because so, I mean, every class is inside. Everything is like, oh, I'm studying all this stuff, like, in front of a computer. If I can, like, get out, go on a walk, I think that's the way I escape when I'm up here.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I think there's something about going for a walk, like, without a destination in mind. That's so nice.
[00:16:03] Speaker D: Yeah. Like, yeah, just taking off.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Just like, I'm not going to class, I'm just going in a loop. Like, that's getting lost in your thoughts is pretty helpful for that.
[00:16:12] Speaker C: 100. 100. Didn't you say you had, like a fun fact or something?
[00:16:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we'll bring that up later.
[00:16:20] Speaker D: We'll bring it up. Second segment, fun fact.
[00:16:22] Speaker C: Sure.
[00:16:23] Speaker D: Sweet.
[00:16:23] Speaker C: Second segment, fun fact. Can't wait for that.
[00:16:27] Speaker D: But yeah, I mean, truth of the matter is, you gotta. You, at some point, you have to give yourself a break.
And that's something that I've learned.
And freshman year, I did it terribly. I was always doing something, just not going to bed on time, waking up early. And I agree with you on the studying thing.
When I used to study for Orgo and stuff, I would stay up till like 3 o', clock, wake up at 7, try to study more.
Well, for accounting, I guess I just don't necessarily study as much, but I do get better sleep, and it helps so much. So much. I think that's very important. People forget how important sleeping is and eating in the morning. Eating huge for me. Yeah. Because, I mean, there will be periods where I'm just study, study, study, don't eat. And that just hurts you even more. Yeah. So I have a question for y'. All.
[00:17:21] Speaker B: I know I have a tendency to do this, and so do my friends. Like, do y' all base how your. Your day is off, how productive you were that day? So, like, if someone asked me, how was your day? I'm like, oh, it was great. I did this, this and this. So, like, yeah, it was just a good day.
[00:17:36] Speaker D: So, yes, probably.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:38] Speaker D: Honestly, I would.
[00:17:39] Speaker C: I would say yes. And especially my morning, if I have. Like, if I'm on top of things in the morning, I feel like my day is so much better.
[00:17:46] Speaker D: Yeah. Make your bed.
[00:17:48] Speaker C: Make your bed.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Yeah, there we go.
[00:17:50] Speaker D: Do you make your bed every morning?
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Next question.
[00:17:53] Speaker D: Oh, man. I've got to send you the video. Dr. Perez will be happy that you're going to have to watch this.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: It's awesome.
[00:18:00] Speaker D: There we go.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: You've never seen, like, it's like, what, a Navy seal.
[00:18:02] Speaker D: Navy seal, yeah. Talking about making. It'll make you feel bad.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: You know, I've seen so many videos of Navy SEALs telling me what to do. I mean, I probably should listen to them, but I don't. I can't.
[00:18:11] Speaker D: Those jokers are mean.
They're.
[00:18:14] Speaker B: They're too on top of their stuff for me. I. I can't. I can't be on top of myself that well.
[00:18:18] Speaker D: You just need to be you. I know.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:18:20] Speaker D: I need to be you. I'm not even going to see the video.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Don't make your bed.
[00:18:25] Speaker D: No. This has been great, though, and I'm. I'll be excited to. To swing it out for segment two and see what we can find to talk about.
We'll be back after the break. Bambounce.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: Wvuafm, tuscaloosa this show is not a
[00:18:54] Speaker A: substitute for professional counseling and no relationship is created between the show host or guests and any listener. If you feel you are in need of professional mental health and are a UA student, we encourage you to contact the UA Counseling center at 348-3863. If you are not a UA student, please contact your respective counties crisis service hotline or their local mental health agency or insurance company. If it is an emergency situation, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Foreign.
Hey, y'. All. Welcome back. This is session two and we're gonna get going give a little fun fact for you all. I'm sure you all know a whole bunch about this. We're not built for just high cortisol lifestyle that we're living right now.
It's. It's not like a life or death situation like we had way back in the day. We're not meant to just get constantly stressed out about like an accounting test or who I'm gonna have a date with, something like that. But I mean, it's consistent in everything that we do nowadays. So it's just. I want to talk to y' all and get Yalls opinion, like, what do you all think on how this is just bad for our health? Like, what do you think it's doing to our health just to be consistently stressed out day in, day out?
[00:20:17] Speaker C: I think it's like you said, like, we're not built to kind of. I think we make things bigger than they are oftentimes in our heads. And that's not to say that they don't have value. Like, obviously, like you want to do good on your accounting test, but it's also not going to kill you if you don't do good.
[00:20:32] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: And I think. And of course I'm. I think every student is guilty of this, like, me included. But like, we make. We get so worked up about these things because, you know, maybe our brains are wired to, to treat things at a certain level of, I guess, tension. But, you know, I think we forget how much of a.
How much. How much like, I guess, leeway we
[00:20:54] Speaker D: have
[00:20:58] Speaker C: as just young people.
Like, we're not supposed to have it all figured out.
And part of the process is learning. And I think that that is where a lot of peace comes through. It's like, okay, like, yeah, this is not the end of the world. And I'm learning in this experience.
It's not like I'm, you know, in my 30s, like, needing to really find a job. It's like, you know, I'm still a college student.
[00:21:21] Speaker D: Yeah, I agree.
I'm the perfect person to talk about this.
Failing a test does not, you know, mean it's going to like, be the end. Yeah, I mean, it's very capable. You're very capable of failing a test and being okay. But it's important that you learn from what you did wrong and how you can study better or something like that. But I do agree with you, like, life or death is what it used to be. But now, like Edward said, it's every Little thing. We have the smallest problems in the world that we stress out about so much, when in reality there are people that have so much bigger problems and they do not stress about them like we do.
And I'm not sure where exactly this came from. Um, whether it's just the time or kind of just a trend that's been going this way. But. But I mean, it's definitely taking a toll on us. I think being stressed out can't be great for your body, can't be great for your health in general.
And I'm not sure if our parents were really.
I don't know, it'd be interesting to talk to our parents about this and see if they felt similar. Like, I'm not sure if we're the first generation to really go through this type of thing this early on. And then if that's the case, it may be phones, technology, social media that's gotten some of it into us. I don't know. There could be gajillion reasons, but it is very interesting.
[00:22:47] Speaker C: 100. I think the. I do think the technology aspect is a huge part of it, but I would think that our parents and the generation that raised us probably felt it the same thing, but in different ways.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I would agree with that. I'll definitely agree with that. I think social media has given us, like, now the comparison aspect of it, so we can stress about, like, how I am compared to someone else more so. But I think our parents definitely had just as stressful childhoods and, like, college experiences as we did. Just maybe in different ways. For sure. It's hard not to, like, stress out about certain things and put too much importance on some things. Like, I know we're not fighting a saber tooth tiger, but, like, I hate being late. That's my biggest stressor.
[00:23:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:34] Speaker B: So, like, that's not the end of the world. Like, I gotta remember being three minutes late is not gonna kill me.
[00:23:40] Speaker D: No.
[00:23:41] Speaker C: And. And it's remembering that, like, the little things are little. Not to. Not to devalue them, but, like.
[00:23:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:23:48] Speaker C: Like, it. Perspectives important. Yeah. Is the.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: That's exactly right.
[00:23:52] Speaker D: I agree.
What are yalls?
Golly. I lost a good question.
Anybody else have a question that they can come up with real quick? I had something really good that I was gonna ask.
[00:24:04] Speaker C: What was the. What was the train of thought on the.
[00:24:10] Speaker D: It was a com. It was like a. Would you. Or do you stress more about.
It was. Out of two things. I don't know.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: I don't know. What do y' all do to, like, Relieve stress. Like what is Yalls number one? Stress relaxer, if that's the word to use.
Movies.
[00:24:28] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, I think because.
And truth be told, I'm not gonna straight. I guess music maybe during the day, but normally if I'm stressed out, like during the day, it normally lasts all day.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:41] Speaker D: I like to unwind just at night.
And I mean, hanging out with friends is good, but movies, probably. But like alone, watching a movie.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: I agree.
[00:24:53] Speaker C: I like that movies is.
[00:24:54] Speaker D: Is.
[00:24:55] Speaker C: I feel like it allows you to not turn your brain off, but kind of take your brain on a short vacation because you're thinking about that movie, you're trying to like, you know, you're. You're interpreting what you're seeing and thinking about that. But it's. There's no stress around it because it's just entered. It's just entertaining.
But yeah, like keeping your mind occupied but not turning it off is, I think, really giving it a break.
Movies are really good. I like. I like doing that as well.
Movies, shows, I also like. I mean, I'm terrible, but I like playing guitar, at least trying to. Because I think it uses a different part of my brain.
[00:25:34] Speaker D: Yeah. No doubt.
[00:25:36] Speaker C: To try to, you know, learn a song or learn a different, like, aspect of what it. Like, of like, you know, playing guitar. Well, because it uses a different part of my brain. I can give like the.
Whatever. The academic focused ones that are always like spiking a little bit of a break.
[00:25:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:57] Speaker C: And go. I guess. I guess like the right brain, left brain thing with. However that works.
[00:26:01] Speaker D: A few of my buddies live and die by playing the guitar in between studying. Yeah. I think it's like the best thing, which I'd love to try something like that, but I don't think anyone hear me growing up or play the guitar. When I was younger, I played the guitar. I could still pick it around a little bit. Yeah. Not to the scale of these guys. I mean, they can play about anything.
[00:26:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: That's pretty sweet. That's what I do to like, release, dress, sit down, play guitar. So, I mean, I think any art.
[00:26:29] Speaker C: You're pretty good, though.
I've seen. I've seen you play Stop it in a few videos.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: I love that. Thank you.
[00:26:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: Very nice. I think any, like, art form, it's like the best way to leave stress. Like movies art, guitars, art for people who like draw. It's just like.
[00:26:44] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: Getting another state of mind like you're talking about. It's just completely different.
[00:26:48] Speaker D: Thinking about something different.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:50] Speaker D: Like deep movies, interstellar I've watched it, like, literally 20 times, so it never gets old. But that's a great movie, like, because you have to think so much into that movie.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:02] Speaker D: That, like, you can't think about anything else, really.
Do you. I was just sitting here thinking. Do y' all have a certain time that you can think of right now where you. Where you were caught in a calm state but felt super uncomfortable?
[00:27:26] Speaker B: Honestly? Yeah.
Like, I'm not a big dude that goes on walks. Like, I don't. I don't go on walks very often, but I'm trying to more because, like, it is nice.
Like, I went for one the other day by myself. I'm like, this would be nice. I just couldn't get into it. Like, I was like, this is uncomfortable. I know. Music I'm listening to right now, and that's what threw me off, is like, I haven't had, like, quiet like this. Just, like, hearing the leaves and the birds and, like, a year. It's like, a year.
[00:27:54] Speaker C: I think that there are times when I try to read that, like, I can't focus on reading because my mind is elsewhere. So I feel uncomfortable because even though, like, I'm in a quiet spot, like, trying to do something that, you know, kind of take my mind off things, like, I'm just, like, unable to. And I think that's a moment where it becomes, like, uncomfortable, where that calm is, like, difficult to kind of achieve.
Because just like, I think reading is. Is because it's hard to, like, listen to music while you read.
[00:28:28] Speaker D: Right.
[00:28:28] Speaker C: You can't do that. I mean, because you're. You can't focus on it. Because I think I rely heavily on the other trying to do something like reading to work off stress is. Can be difficult.
[00:28:39] Speaker D: I think mine may be car odds, but, like, longer car rides.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:45] Speaker D: When I go home, you know, it's great. I'm listening to music, but also my mind does not shut off. I'm thinking about, you know, maybe what I'm gonna do right. When I get home or, you know, when I get back to school from this weekend that I'm going home. I've got so much to do, that type of thing, and I. I do it to myself.
[00:29:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker D: But the truth of the matter is, I mean, if you have things that you have to do, you're gonna think about it.
I think it'd be awesome to find a way to mitigate the stress behind it, but me telling myself that it's not that important just doesn't work.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: That. That's Hard to do, at least for me to try to convince myself of something. It's easier when people are telling me like, hey, that you're fine. But when I like, if I try to tell myself like, oh, it's fine, I'm like, that is it though.
[00:29:35] Speaker D: Yeah. I'd rather hear it from. Get reassurance from somebody else than myself. I feel like that's when I can actually, like, you know, take it easy.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: They make a good point with the reading thing. Like, I want to try to sit down and read. I feel like my attention span is just like horrible.
[00:29:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: So bad. And like, it just stresses me out more because I'm like, I want to get through like 30 pages and I'm just zoning out to like four.
[00:29:58] Speaker C: I know. And it's probably all because of, like, phones. Yeah, it is.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: It's just because of this phone.
[00:30:04] Speaker D: They're awful for us. Technology is great for the country and stuff, but God, it's bad for us.
And we're the guinea pigs too. Yeah. There's no telling what are like. I mean, there's no telling.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: Would you ever get a flip phone?
[00:30:19] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:30:20] Speaker B: I totally would.
[00:30:21] Speaker D: I think everybody should go back to flip phones.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: I think it'd be awesome.
[00:30:24] Speaker D: I feel like Apple needs to self destruct all their stuff.
Same with Android.
[00:30:31] Speaker C: And if you could play song like this. Get back on a flip phone.
[00:30:36] Speaker D: Yeah, 100%, I agree. Let's get back to the basics.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: It's also like hanging up on a flip phone. It's like so dramatic. Just.
[00:30:41] Speaker D: Yeah. Whipping it out.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:43] Speaker C: Opening it.
[00:30:44] Speaker D: That's awesome.
[00:30:45] Speaker C: Have like the little holster.
You ever see those?
[00:30:48] Speaker D: Yeah, the little.
The little belt loop.
[00:30:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:51] Speaker D: Yes. Dude, I would be such a granddad with a flip phone. It'd be awesome.
Be awesome. We need to get back to the basics and. No, we don't need your phone camera on your flip phone. Yeah, you do. If you want to take pictures, get a real camera.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: Fair.
[00:31:05] Speaker D: If we're gonna take it back, we gotta take it all the way back.
[00:31:08] Speaker C: All the way back. All the way.
[00:31:09] Speaker D: Yeah, no doubt.
Well,
[00:31:16] Speaker B: how do I end this?
[00:31:17] Speaker C: Oh, you. You just however you want to.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: This is in the session two. Thank you all for listening.
[00:31:24] Speaker D: Yeah, we'll be.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: Wvuafm Tuscaloosa.
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[00:32:24] Speaker C: What's up, guys? Welcome back to the BAMA Balance. We're in our outro segment now, and I think this has been a. You know, for the. The level of preparedness we came in with. I'd say it was a pretty successful.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:36] Speaker C: Successful conversation.
[00:32:39] Speaker D: I mean, this was pretty on. On the whim of things. Go do it. So I thought it was a great conversation. I think it's very true, you know? You know, and I think it's very important as college students, especially when you have that calm time. Don't make it feel uncomfortable. Don't let your body think it's uncomfortable. Just relax. You need it.
There's a reason, like I said earlier, that you are supposed to sleep eight hours. Just like there's reasons throughout your day that you're supposed to be calm.
Our nervous systems weren't meant to be this way. No. But they have been built on this standard of being stressed, and that's just something we're gonna have to deal with.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: So I think it's important for everyone to find, like, what really relaxes them because everyone has different things. Like, you're watching movies, you're playing guitar and working out.
[00:33:29] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: Something. I also think it's important. Like, we talking about this earlier.
Don't put too much importance on everything.
Like, some things are overly important. Yeah. But some things really aren't.
[00:33:43] Speaker C: Or just give them, like, the appropriate amount of time. Like. Or not time, like. Or. Well, yes, time, but like. But when. In terms of this con. The context of this conversation, like, the appropriate amount of mental energy. Yeah. Um, like, you should want to be well prepared for a test, but that test, you're not going to. You know, no one's, like, waiting outside the hall. All right, you failed the test. Well, you're going to prison. Like, it's not. It's not. Not how it works. So, yeah, just, like, give things their due attention, their due focus, and some things are due a lot of attention and a lot of focus, but you don't want to make the little things bigger than they have to be. Because I think that's where a lot of the. That's where, like, you're stressed out through the entire day. Right. When you. When, like, it's a little thing, you're like, oh, that's so. That feels like so much well, like, take a step back, reevaluate. It's.
[00:34:33] Speaker D: I mean, sometimes there's so much going on at one time that I've noticed before. Like, I stack up all this stuff and try to do it all at once. In reality, I should just do it one by one, knock them out and be done.
Because sometimes when you get your plate too full, I mean, you're gonna be stressed out and it ain't going anywhere because you're probably not gonna do too great with the plate full of stuff
[00:34:57] Speaker C: like Jack of All Trades Master. Like, if you're. If you spread yourself too thin, you won't be able to do anything.
[00:35:02] Speaker D: Well, I agree.
Well,
[00:35:11] Speaker C: weekend. What y' all got planned or it's Easter weekend.
[00:35:14] Speaker D: So y'. All.
[00:35:15] Speaker C: I mean, I know I'm going home.
[00:35:16] Speaker B: Are y'.
[00:35:16] Speaker D: All. I'm going home.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: I'm going.
[00:35:17] Speaker D: I'll leave tomorrow. Tomorrow?
[00:35:21] Speaker B: Tomorrow. After the honors day.
[00:35:24] Speaker C: All those shenanigans.
[00:35:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:25] Speaker D: Best week of the year.
[00:35:26] Speaker C: Best week of the year.
[00:35:27] Speaker D: What did you say it was?
[00:35:28] Speaker B: Third.
[00:35:28] Speaker D: Third best.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: Third best.
[00:35:30] Speaker D: Third. Best week of the year.
[00:35:31] Speaker B: I. Christmas and spring break.
[00:35:32] Speaker D: Very specific.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:34] Speaker D: What'd you do for spring break when skiing. That was pretty fun.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: I live in Colorado.
[00:35:39] Speaker D: I saw you. You were on my flight.
That was a. That was a weird pool. Yeah, we did fall back together. Denver. It was dagum 90 degrees in Denver that day.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:35:51] Speaker D: Is that not crazy?
[00:35:52] Speaker B: It's absurd.
[00:35:52] Speaker D: The hottest day in Denver in March.
[00:35:55] Speaker C: It hadn't even been 90 degrees here
[00:35:57] Speaker D: yet in March in the history, like, ever. Ever.
[00:36:00] Speaker C: That's crazy.
[00:36:01] Speaker D: 90 degrees, but yes, we were. It was colder here.
[00:36:06] Speaker C: That's.
[00:36:06] Speaker D: That's really funny, Colorado.
[00:36:07] Speaker C: That's, like, really funny.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: That's never good. That's never good. When we were skiing, like, we were water skiing.
[00:36:12] Speaker D: They're going to have some problems.
[00:36:14] Speaker B: This turns me bad.
[00:36:15] Speaker D: I feel bad for them.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: A lot of wildfires, a lot of
[00:36:17] Speaker D: fires, and they don't have any water.
Them not getting a lot of snow is very, very bad, detrimental. So. Yeah.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: Where you're from? Are you sure? Are you from.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: No, from Birmingham.
[00:36:29] Speaker C: From Birmingham. But like your family, is it the Denver area you are living in now
[00:36:32] Speaker B: or like snow mass, like right outside?
It's like. I was skiing near. Close to you, somewhat.
[00:36:40] Speaker D: Okay. Where did you all ski?
[00:36:44] Speaker B: Like, islands.
[00:36:46] Speaker D: Yeah, that's that. Sweet.
[00:36:49] Speaker C: Good time.
[00:36:49] Speaker D: It was a lot of fun.
[00:36:50] Speaker B: Yeah, man.
[00:36:50] Speaker C: Good old. I've been skiing one time and I was so bad.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: It's fun, though.
[00:36:55] Speaker C: It's fun. No, I remember one time One of the. I went to a.
Like, one of the hill, like, the parts that, like, I was not. I should not have gone to because it was like, a higher difficulty or whatever. And I, like. I, like, fell as I was going. I fell back, but, like, my skis were still, like, down. So I was, like, sitting on the back of my skis as I was going down. And, like, I was with some friends and they were just laughing. They're laughing their butts off at that one. Which objectively was probably really funny because I was just like. Just all the way down, going down the mountain.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: That's great.
[00:37:24] Speaker D: That could be tough to stop right there. It's a little sketchy when I saw
[00:37:28] Speaker C: so many people, like, on the freaking.
The ambulance of ski. I don't know, whatever they call it. Like the stretchers?
[00:37:36] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:37:36] Speaker C: Well, like. Like, what are those? The, like, the stretchers, the snowmobiles going up.
[00:37:42] Speaker D: Skiing is a very good way to get hurt.
[00:37:44] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:37:45] Speaker D: I mean, because, I mean, you can be a great skier, but somehow tear your acl, pop something out of socket.
It's very physically demanding.
[00:37:53] Speaker C: Very.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Anything on the mountain can be. Yeah.
[00:37:55] Speaker D: Skiing, biking.
[00:37:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:37:57] Speaker B: I had a bad fall on a bike two years ago, and I don't do it now. I got a helicopter off a mountain.
[00:38:02] Speaker D: That's crazy.
[00:38:03] Speaker B: Another fun. That's a good.
[00:38:04] Speaker C: Can you describe helicopter?
[00:38:05] Speaker B: Like.
[00:38:05] Speaker C: Like. Like, you meant, like, you were just like. Like, flipping in the air, like.
[00:38:09] Speaker D: No, I can't.
[00:38:10] Speaker C: Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
What does that mean to helicopter off a mountain? But no, that. Yeah, that makes sense.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:20] Speaker D: That's kind of scary.
I don't know. Okay.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I think.
[00:38:24] Speaker D: Blacked out.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I have a head, so I don't remember, like, two days, but I broke my collarbone. I'm good now.
[00:38:30] Speaker C: So, like, two days.
[00:38:31] Speaker D: Glad you're good now.
[00:38:33] Speaker C: Two days of your life. You just, like, don't even.
[00:38:35] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a weird.
[00:38:36] Speaker C: That is really weird.
[00:38:36] Speaker B: Super weird thought, like. Like, I know this happened, but did
[00:38:41] Speaker D: it, like, bro, what did you do those two days?
[00:38:43] Speaker C: What if you're. What if you're still asleep?
[00:38:45] Speaker B: What I eat. I wasn't. What do you mean? Like, normal food.
[00:38:48] Speaker D: You don't know that.
Yeah.
[00:38:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's true.
[00:38:52] Speaker C: Yeah. That's what I was getting to, like.
[00:38:54] Speaker D: You have no clue, like, what you ate?
[00:38:56] Speaker B: No.
[00:38:57] Speaker D: Anything?
[00:38:57] Speaker B: No, I think I just listen to, like, an audiobook for, like, two days.
[00:39:01] Speaker D: Nice.
[00:39:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:02] Speaker D: Did you finish it?
[00:39:03] Speaker B: No, I didn't. I didn't.
[00:39:06] Speaker D: I couldn't do that. Yeah, that's a. That's too long for me. Yeah. If you can listen to it for two full days, that is a long.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: But I did for, like in two hours each day. Then I slept the rest of the day because I had a concussion.
[00:39:18] Speaker D: Yeah. Concussions are no fun.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: No.
[00:39:21] Speaker D: I'm glad to see that you're here and doing well.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:39:24] Speaker D: That is kind of scary.
Yeah.
[00:39:27] Speaker C: Helicopter and off a mountain. I'm glad. That doesn't mean what I thought it meant. It's still not great. But, like, he wouldn't be here. What I was picturing was probably way worse.
[00:39:35] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:39:36] Speaker C: But, yeah. Thanks for listening, guys. This is the Bama Balance.
And thank you for Michael for joining us today.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:39:42] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:39:43] Speaker C: This was a ton of fun.
Good time. And we will see you all next week. Oh, I'm Edward Fountain.
[00:39:49] Speaker D: I'm Brooks Barbrey.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: I'm Michael Dobbs.
[00:39:51] Speaker C: And we will see you next week. Thank you.
[00:40:08] Speaker D: Wvuafm Tuscaloosa.
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