STRESS IN TEENAGERS

Article 1

Chita Nepomuceno

Like every individual says teenagers is the most adventured life.

If you are to ask me, do I agree?

Automatically I will say yes!

Know why?

Just simply because I’m a teenager and I’d fine it so interesting to live my teenage life but like other says also teenagers is one of which life became so hard this is because teenagers do experience STRESS or I mean stresses in life.

There are several reasons of why teenagers experiencing stress.

1.      Schools,  studies like academic pressures

2.      At home, where your parents and siblings could be the cause like misunderstandings or complains.

3.      Peers, this includes relationships and time allotted with friends, circle of friends or friends of friends.

Those stated above are experienced by me and I can say they are experience also by other teenagers and will still be experience later on. Those mentioned are mostly causes of misunderstandings, complains, academic pressures and the possibility of ruined relationships but still as we continue to live we learn how to stand in every problem or stresses encountered in life this is what we call COPING UP!

            And one thing that can help a person to cope up stress is of course your own self and those sources of stress. Do not reject those of stress but rather try to understand your stress and pay attention to it.

To help you cope up stress try to click this link below

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_management_relief_coping.htm#online

Article 2

Mary Rose Navarro

TEENAGE LIFE

There are many people

but you feel alone.

You want to do what you want

but your parents say when to come home.

You want to be a grown-up

but on the other hand you miss your childhood.

You are allowed to do so many new things

but there is the fear of decisions and responsibility.

You laugh, you cry, you keep quiet, you want to sing.

Sometimes you can`t explain what you feel. That are problems of TEENAGE LIFE.

Sometimes it`s really great

but it also can be as hard as a knife.

-WIEBKE

(http://www.mgprojekte.mgjever.de/lcircle/t7.html)

Being a teen are said to be the most enjoyable and busy stage of our life. During this stage, we tend to explore on diffrent things that would help us to improve and develop as a human being.

We keep on knowing ourselves. We keep on discovering our potentials in order to enhance it more to become a succeessful teenager.

        But of course, we cannot avoid certain things or situation to happen that will hindres what we want to achieve resulting for us to be stress. To name a few, the following are as follows:

Teenagers became stress when their parents have this high expectation from them. It was a pressure of course. The tendency is that they will pursue to reach and perfrom it but once they get fail, they become stress. They have this feeling of loneliness because they were thinking that their parents will be dissappointed with what they did.

Moreover, teenagers become stress also when it comes to beauty talk. They get stress when they feel that they are not that beauty just like the other. They are conscious about their self.

ARTICLE 3
Mary Jean V. Legaspi

Life is short, live it. 

Love is rare, grab it. 

Anger is bad, dump it. 

Fear is awful, face it. 

Memories are sweet, cherish it.

http://teen-quotes.tumblr.com/

They say that being teenager is enjoying yet it is the most crucial stage of life.

As a teenager there are a lot of reasons why stress comes. On top of these are emotional stress. Teenagers are very emotional they always seek attention from people around them, they love to be loved.

They are also stress when it comes to people's expectation. Teenagers don't want to lose admiration just because of a mistake.

Teenager get stress when it comes to schools. Of course we all know that this is a place wherein competitive people do exist and they don't want to lose their fight.

Most important reason why teenager get stress is because of love life.

here's a credible reasons of why teenagers get stress:

Teenagers, like adults, may experience stress everyday and can benefit from learning stress management skills.  Most teens experience more stress when they perceive a situation as dangerous, difficult, or painful and they do not have the resources to cope.  Some sources of stress for teens might include:

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• school demands and frustrations
• negative thoughts and feelings about themselves
• changes in their bodies
• problems with friends and/or peers at school
• unsafe living environment/neighborhood
• separation or divorce of parents
• chronic illness or severe problems in the family
• death of a loved one
• moving or changing schools
• taking on too many activities or having too high expectations
• family financial problems

Some teens become overloaded with stress.  When it happens, inadequately managed stress can lead to anxiety, withdrawal, aggression, physical illness, or poor coping skills such as drug and/or alcohol use.

http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/helping_teenagers_with_stress

As a teenager I've been in these scenarios and I was able to cope because of these reasons:

• I talked to a master in Clinical psychologist which is a friend of mine and tell here my problems - cause and effect.
• I often shares/ tell to my trusted friends specially love life ^_^
• being Optimistic
• learn from others mistake and one mistake at a time is enough
• lastly, ask guidance, pray, and talk to the Man above- the Lord.

ARTICLE 4

Geraldine P. Balbada

                                                             STRESS IN TEENS

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Adolescence is often difficult on its time, especially when a teen is experiencing the same worries and insecurities like the adults have. But the coping skills of a teenager in those worries and problems are very limited; they try to make things possible on their own, they don’t have enough experience and point of view on such things that bugging every person, sometimes they don’t have the courage to confine their feeling to their family, every now and then they felt hopeless on their situation, vulnerable in all kinds of pain and above all is insecurity, for they don’t have enough self-confidence to face the world. And there’s a word that best describe all those worries and problems: STRESS.

We all know that stress strikes on every age of every person in every possible way and as for the teens there are factors that mainly trigger them in stress such as;

1.       Family problems- There’s no such thing as a perfect family, one way or another there will be a difficult time in your family like; misunderstanding between your siblings, disappointment from your parents or having a broken family. And it will greatly influence a teenager’s life for a family is the greatest mold in your life, the reason for who you are, so whenever there’s a problem inside your family it affects you deeply.

2.       Financial problems- there are things in your life that you badly want no matter what, and the first reason why you don’t get that is because of money. There are so many teens that greatly need money for its education, for self-satisfaction things such as bags, clothes, shoes and etc and usually it’s a support for their family needs. And you’re thinking on ways to help them or to have those things.

3.       Study (college life) - oh come on teens! Were not stress-free until we finished our school works. There are so many deadlines for different subjects, exams, projects and such things. You need to do things and find a way to finish all that and that’s where usually stress came from.

4.       Peer pressure- friends. Where you are going to hang-out, quarrelling to your bestfriend, thinking ways to make them laugh or cry and etc. and those things are bugging you on how would you resolve all those things and from that simple things will stress you out of no time.

5.       Insecurities to other people- insecurities! Whether you like it not every person are insecure. There are times that your not comfortable with your own skin, cant stop comparing yourself to others and trying to overcome it by telling and looking evilly to it and finding a way to outclass them. It sucks and it’s stressful to think of ways. J

6.       Afraid of socializing- anxious to get to know other people and don’t know how to approach other people for they are thinking of “what if or what would’s”. That’s why it’s a problem sub from insecurities.

7.       Love life – oohh come on!!  Every one is minding their own and other persons love life, whether it’s a happy ending story or a broken hearted one. Things to mend or make your relationship stronger or trying to find someone who would catch you when you fall things like that.

That’s the reason why a teenager got troubled and stress and if there are reasons of your stress there are ways to manage it. Click the link bellow…

http://www.pamf.org/teen/life/stress/managestress.html