Teenage Stress: Causes And Remedies

Teenage stress is a common and prevalent phenomenon. Most teenagers face some degree of stress in life, stress at school, stress in their form of love or infatuation, infact stress in everything around. The above compilation on,” Teenage Stress: Causes and remedies”, is to raise awareness about the issue and welcome experiences or feedbacks from parents. A very blooming and blossoming time, teenage is filled with spurts of emotions and hormonal rushes. A teenager often associates every small issue with a bigger outcome. The school, family or social circle starts shrinking and yet the teenager feels detached and often shies away from sharing with family.

Teenage is as thrilling and exciting time as it is stressful and depressing. Some part of the stress is welcoming and necessary to help the teenager shape her future and explore her inner self. But in many cases the stress becomes prominent and affects overall health and happiness. It is therefore very crucial to identify and treat at the right time, and avoid serious repercussions.

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Signs of teenage stress

Teenage stress affects the mind and the body alike. There will be a series of symptoms or signs we can see in the stressed teenager. They impact emotional, physical, psychological and cognitive aspects. All the aspects have a dichotomy, either too much or too less of anything. There is a constant temper trail that causes arguments and confrontations :

1- Too much or too little sleep
2- Starve or over eat
3- Drugs and alcohol addiction
4- Nervous and reticent
5- Aggressive
6- Lose or gain too much weight
7- social media addiction
8- Mood swings
9- Careless or over cautious
10- Some what obsessive
11- Loss of concentration
12- Loss of memory
13- Uncontrolled thoughts
14- Different behavior
15- Head ache or body ache

Teenage stress: Causes

1- Academic stress

Sometimes the upcoming exams or activities make the teenager think too much and get stressed. Also the parental or peer pressure to excel in exams is a very critical cause. Grades, marks and eligibility make the situation turbulent and stressful

2- Emotional swings

Romantic spurts or infatuations are normal at this stage. But sometimes not being able reciprocate or get loved by the other person breaks the teenagers confidence and causes stress. There is a constant need of knowing and experimenting with physical or sexual activities. And not necessarily getting the same degree or urges from the other person. This causes immense stress in teenagers.

3- Family troubles

Troubled parental marriage or divorce or separation causes anxiety in kids. This causes a lot more psychological harm than anything else at this stage. It is therefore very important not to make the parental or family troubles prominent for the kids. And communicate more and more with the teenagers

4- Demographic changes

Moving to a new school, new city or new place also causes a lot of stress in teenagers. Missing old system of life and not finding the new life fair enough makes the teenager get detached from the surroundings.

5- Competition among friends or peers:

Peer pressure in studies, in sports or in romantic associations causes a lot more stress than boosts morale. There is a complex web of relationships building around the teenager and she is trying to explore herself and the surroundings. Thus the stress from peers makes her socially awkward and reticent

6- Low self esteem

Teenagers sometimes find their own ways of approaching or doing things very critical. They become judgmental of their own attitudes and behaviors. This develops a more stress from within kind of situation.

7- Sibling rivalry

Among siblings there is always a competition and when theres less age gap the rivalry turns out more prominent. Every one starts comparing and making it even more stressful for the teenager.

8- Generation gap:

The ideas and opinions of a teenager may sometimes be disregarded in parents beliefs. As there is a generation gap and the lines of appropriate and inappropriate have blurred to from their times. It gets difficult for a teenager to convince or make the parents agree to her ideas and thus stressed situation

9- Financial Stress

The life just outside school demands compassion and strategic planning for paying the bills and accomplishing the desires. There is a constant financial stress in the teenager to plan it well for herself an the life she plans ahead.

10- Medical reasons

Disabled or Special needs children face more stress than normal kids do. Their interactions with the world are far more judged and pointed at. They have a constant fight with and outside to behave normally and make it right for themselves and the family.

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Remedies to cure teenage stress:

1- Healthy diet
2- Fitness and sports routine
3- Family time involving healthy interactions and activities involving entire family
4- Proper sleep
5- Refrain from caffeine or drugs
6- Parental support and healthy communication
7- Counseling
8- Meditation and yoga
9- Develop a passion or a hobby, this is the right time to involve in reading or sports or art. They are a foolproof and known cure for stress.]
10- Dance, zumba and aerobics amid musical gatherings

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The above compilation on,” Teenage stress: causes and remedies” is to bring awareness about the repercussions teenage stress can lead to. Sometimes a child gets so lonely that they may attempt drugs and suicide. It is very important to be their support and constant inspire them and make them feel proud of themselves.

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Minu Manisha