For the past few years, student stress and anxiety has increased drastically. Students have started staying home from school and leaving classes to avoid anxiety attacks and have been lacking the motivation to learn. Unfortunately, anxiety and depression feed off each other. For example, in the article “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety”, writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis reviews Jake, a stressed teenager, about his experiences. “The more school [Jake] missed, the more anxious he felt about missing school. And the more anxious he felt, the more hopeless and depressed he became” (1). This proves that anxiety thoroughly affects depression, and depression only makes anxiety worse. The increased amount of classwork
