Chronic Stress In High School

More than twenty-seven percent of students across the U.S feel they experience extreme stress, and as the years go on it will continue to increase by thirty-four percent. Stressors range from school to school and region to region but it is clear enough that high school students get stressed. People go through two different type of stress factors, acute stress or chronic stress, both, not necessarily bad, can lead to some consequences. Acute stress is the reaction to an immediate threat or in other words the flight or fight situation. But once the threat has passed your hormone levels go back to normal and you are no longer stressed. On the other hand chronic stress the kind that most of us face today is the type that can be considered the …show more content…
But I really do think that having extracurricular activities that begin once classes end and end later than nine pm with the pile of homework to do afterward truly leads to stress. Over time high schools have oriented themselves to address the context of increasingly competitive college admissions. Due to this students give themselves expectations, and parents as well. School work, college admissions, extracurricular activities, and expectations all lead to stress. Stress in high school is so common now that schools have come up with techniques to cope with it. Schools have used meditation techniques, eye massaging and P.E to deal with stress. My school has been using a technique called mindful meditation where teachers will read from a book that had multiple different techniques. Some can be just basic breathing while other have to do with moving around, being active. When this was first brought up I thought this would be an excellent way to deal with stress but over the past couple of months, I have realized it has not been that affect. In the beginning, teachers having been saying it was your choice to participate or not but to be quite if you don't participate. I liked how we had a choice participating or but I feel like that rule has affected in a way that some teachers tell us we have to participate. Due to this some students rebel and so it results in more and more people not participating in the meditation. But I think there are other things we can do to improve these