Adolescence comes with so many changes, challenges, demands, and responsibilities. The most prominent is the depression and anxiety which is very common to the adolescents.
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Adolescence comes with so many changes, challenges, demands, and responsibilities. The most prominent is the depression and anxiety which is very common to the adolescents.
That is because adolescence is a very delicate stage, teen children are espoused to peer pressure—severe peer pressure causes anxiety and depression in teenagers. Teenagers tend to spend too much time on their cellphones and tablets, and computers—kids are never seen playing outside together no more. Unless they come from a low income family that cannot afford to give them access to the internet.
Also, another major contribution to high rise in anxiety among teens is the fact that they learn shit way sooner than they should be, because of the internet. Whether the content is true or not, kids are reading or watching, real and fake, fucked up shit that their parents have no control over. Not having anyone adolescents feel they can talk too is also a major factor. Parents are too wrapped up in their cellphones or jobs to have a conversation with the children. Not all but majority are that way. People barely have conversations with their kids anymore.
There are a number of factors contribute to it: High expectations and pressure to succeed—teenagers can feel pressure to succeed in ways previous generations did not. Parents can knowingly or unknowingly mount pressure on their teenager children, all this contribute to anxiety in teens.
Social media—These days, everyone is constantly connected to social media. It’s not surprising that their self-esteem―and worldview ―becomes connected to responses to social media posts. It’s hard for teens not to compare their life and social connections to what they see others posting on social media.
There are also some children who have unexpected reactions to normal developmental experiences like going to school, going to a party, doing a sleepover or going to camp; children who worry excessively about everyday life activities. This often starts in the years right before puberty.