dr. roni cohen-sandler is sharing her six steps to lessen stress. so far we've learned about setting sensible schedules, maintaining balanced lives, and having realistic expectations. doctor, step four is minimizing anxieties. can you explain that? - yes, very often you have ideas in your head such as, "well, if i don't get into a certain college, "i'm never gonna be successful in my life," or "if i get a b, "my parents will never be proud of me again." so it's important to challenge those assumptions that you're making and to ask yourself, "are these really true?" and of course they're not, and so that should lower your stress. - okay, moving on to step five, you call it recognizing hidden stress. - yes, so we think about stress in terms of headaches and stomachaches and having difficulty sleeping, but if you realize that for the last several days or weeks you've been really irritable and you're getting in a lot of fights with your friends or you're even meaner to your sibling than you usually are, you might wanna think about the fact that maybe th