Stress

Teenagers nowadays are going through a lot of stress. Stress is a body’s way of reacting to challenges. It has a wide range of effects on emotions, mood and behaviour. For example, the person may have chest pain, palpitations, rapid pulse, obsessive or compulsive behaviour, social withdrawal and isolation.  There are many factors that contribute to this problem such as family problems, school, relationships and also financial issues.

Divorced and broken families affect the children mentally even if the parents do not realize it. There will be constant arguments or even fights between family members. Some children may even have the thought that their parents argue and divorce because of them and often put the blame on themselves. This causes them to lose focus on their studies.

Other than that, school may also cause stress in teenagers. There are many cliques in schools nowadays, especially high schools and there are also many students that do not belong to any of them. They usually have the need in them to belong somewhere and they often have stress trying to make themselves fit in. Not only that, students also tends to compete with their classmates and compare their grades which may be a good thing to push them to do better but may not be a good thing also. This is because they will feel stressed even if they tried their best but did not meet their expectations.