Teen Depression and Anxiety: Why kids are not alright.
Cadet Byington C.
Science of Flight
SMSgt Seipert
Utah Military Academy
Teen depression and anxiety: why kids are not alright.
Teens today have the reputation for being more fragile than their parents and less resilient. Kids these days are more overwhelmed. People think that kids are spoiled or coddled or even helicoptered these days. But if you take a look more kids are suffering Anxiety and depression in high school and it has been on a rise since 2012. Understanding why teens are so depressed and have high anxiety. In 2015, about 3 million teens ranging in age from 12 to 17 had had one major depressive episode …show more content…
Teens today have the reputation for being more fragile than their parents and less resilient. Kids these days are more overwhelmed. People think that kids are spoiled or coddled or even helicoptered these days. But if you take a look more kids are suffering Anxiety and depression in high school and it has been on a rise since 2012. Understanding why teens are so depressed and have high anxiety. In 2015, about 3 million teens ranging in age from 12 to 17 had had one major depressive episode in the past year. More than 2 million reported have been experiencing depression and that impairs their ability to function in daily life. The number of distressed teens is on the rise and experts are trying to find out why and what to do to help these young adults. (Time Magazine, 2016) Teens crave stimulation, and their emotions and hormones always get in the way that they think. Having academic pressure and the pressures of going to college, are very overwhelming. The fact that teens have to get a job to help pay for college and keep good grades in order to get into a good college is …show more content…
We teens have never been able to experience going to school without terrorism or school shootings constantly around. Teens had to watch their parents go through a tough recession. “If you wanted to create an environment to churn out really angsty people, we've done it,” says Janis Whitlock, director of cornell research program on self injury and recovery. Kids these days are taking after their parents and their parents are taking after them, social media and cell phones are the culprit. When parents leave work they don't really leave work, they have it right in their hand, right on their cell phones. During family dinner time phones ring and we answer. Their will be always something that interferes with time that parents and teens should be having. Things to help teens are: Talk about the real stuff, stay intuned with their lives. Give them space, but pay attention. Resist getting angry. Don’t put off getting help. If one child is having problems it is more likely that other children in the family is also having problems so change the whole family dynamic. (Time Magazine,
Cadet Byington C.
Science of Flight
SMSgt Seipert
Utah Military Academy
Teen depression and anxiety: why kids are not alright.
Teens today have the reputation for being more fragile than their parents and less resilient. Kids these days are more overwhelmed. People think that kids are spoiled or coddled or even helicoptered these days. But if you take a look more kids are suffering Anxiety and depression in high school and it has been on a rise since 2012. Understanding why teens are so depressed and have high anxiety. In 2015, about 3 million teens ranging in age from 12 to 17 had had one major depressive episode …show more content…
Teens today have the reputation for being more fragile than their parents and less resilient. Kids these days are more overwhelmed. People think that kids are spoiled or coddled or even helicoptered these days. But if you take a look more kids are suffering Anxiety and depression in high school and it has been on a rise since 2012. Understanding why teens are so depressed and have high anxiety. In 2015, about 3 million teens ranging in age from 12 to 17 had had one major depressive episode in the past year. More than 2 million reported have been experiencing depression and that impairs their ability to function in daily life. The number of distressed teens is on the rise and experts are trying to find out why and what to do to help these young adults. (Time Magazine, 2016) Teens crave stimulation, and their emotions and hormones always get in the way that they think. Having academic pressure and the pressures of going to college, are very overwhelming. The fact that teens have to get a job to help pay for college and keep good grades in order to get into a good college is …show more content…
We teens have never been able to experience going to school without terrorism or school shootings constantly around. Teens had to watch their parents go through a tough recession. “If you wanted to create an environment to churn out really angsty people, we've done it,” says Janis Whitlock, director of cornell research program on self injury and recovery. Kids these days are taking after their parents and their parents are taking after them, social media and cell phones are the culprit. When parents leave work they don't really leave work, they have it right in their hand, right on their cell phones. During family dinner time phones ring and we answer. Their will be always something that interferes with time that parents and teens should be having. Things to help teens are: Talk about the real stuff, stay intuned with their lives. Give them space, but pay attention. Resist getting angry. Don’t put off getting help. If one child is having problems it is more likely that other children in the family is also having problems so change the whole family dynamic. (Time Magazine,