Whether or not teens get enough sleep that have a big impact on stress. One study examined how teenagers reacted during the day when they didn't get enough sleep at night, as compared to how older adolescents and adults behaved. The results showed that sleep-deprived teens found stressful situations much more threatening than older study participants. To improve sleep, teens should make sure their room dark and cool at night, and turn off their phone and other devices a half hour or more before bed. They might try introducing a relaxing bedtime routine that includes reading, writing in a journal, and/or listening to quiet music. Another approach for how to relieve stress as a teenagers is by dealing with it in different ways. Teens don't need to see stress as a bad thing in every case. Stressful situations for teens can be opportunities to learn and to challenge themselves in new ways. Studies involving karaoke singing, public speaking, and math performance showed that people who reframed their anxiety as excitement performed better than those who told themselves to stay calm when feeling stressed. Telling themselves that they were excited helped them feel more confident and competent. And others saw them that way as well.