Reporter Q: Hi, can you please talk about the problem of high school stress with your clinical counseling experience? Counselor: Yes. Reporter Q: What are the specific manifestations of the candidates’ college entrance examination stress? Counselor: Every year on the eve of the college entrance examination, there will be some students because of college entrance examination pressure to consult, more complaints are: inattention, brain sluggishness, study does not enter, once the examination, would have done the problem, but also can not do; there are some physical symptoms: headache, dizziness, insomnia, can not eat, mood boredom, impatient, easy to lose temper, reluctant to communicate with parents, very tired of parents to talk, etc.. Reporter Q: From your experience, what personality traits are students prone to stress in the college entrance exams? Counselor: There is no good or bad personality, all kinds of personalities may appear stressful. If we consider from the perspective of personality alone, we can say that emotionally unstable personality traits – typical bilious and depressive (similar to the type of Sun Wukong and Tang Monk) are prone to clinical symptoms due to college entrance exam stress; emotionally stable personality traits – typical mucous and polycythemia (the type of Sand Monk and Piggy) and atypical personality traits are prone to ignore the clinical symptoms due to stress. Reporter’s question: What are the key factors causing stress in high school? Counselor: Horizontal climbing! Most of the students who are under a lot of pressure in the college entrance examination have a heavy element of horizontal climbing in their mindset, and they care too much about whether they get a higher or lower score than others, and are afraid of falling behind others; on the contrary, students who are more peaceful in their mindset are mostly more diverse in their career development direction, and do not pay too much attention to whether they can get into a famous brand or not, and whether they can surpass others. Reporter Q: college entrance exams are approaching, please give candidates, parents and teachers some advice can you? Counselor: Many students, parents and teachers know that the college entrance examination is very stressful, but they are afraid to consult the pressure to spend time, affecting the revision. As the saying goes, “sharpening the knife does not miss the woodcutter”, the college entrance examination, not only to test the knowledge learned, but also to examine and measure the students’ psychological coping skills, every year there are many candidates because of excessive pressure, not in time to reduce the pressure to eat a big loss. Therefore, parents and teachers must be very careful to understand the child’s state of mind, to measure the state of psychological stress, you can measure the stress through the psychological stress assessment scale, early detection of problems, take effective measures to increase pressure. Reporter Q: What are the specific measures to reduce stress, can you give a brief introduction? Counselor: You can work on three levels: First, the consciousness level: emphasize the concept of vertical development, opposed to the horizontal climbing mentality; second, the emotional side: focus on emotional communication, less empty reasoning; third, the action side: to avoid deadlock, sports and entertainment to reduce stress.