Title: Find Out About the Causes of Teenage Anxiety
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Changing Ideals and Parental Disapproval Adolescence is a time of changing ideals. Because our ideals as children are often formed in large part by our parents or guardians, when our ideals change it can be disconcerting to the adults in our lives. It may be that the religion a teen has grown up with is no longer for them, or their political ideas have become different from their parents', or they have discovered something else about themselves an intellectual or active passion, or even a sexual orientation they were previously unaware of. Any of these discoveries can cause parental disapproval and a stifling of the adolescent's development which can cause them to feel unloved and even suspect that they are a bad person for not agreeing with their parents as they had always done previously. Isolation Stressful feelings of isolation in teens can be caused by many factors. For example, when forming their identities, teenagers sometimes default to identifying with a particular group of people and rejecting others. When these divisions occur, friends can separate from friends and isolation can result. Combined with tension in the home environment, this can lead to a feeling that no one understands you, from which depression and anxiety often stem. Peer and Social Pressures Peer and social pressures to look or behave a certain way or do certain things cause stress by making the adolescent feel as though they have no choice and are trapped by social expectations, that they are having to change who they really are (or see others change), and/or that they are abnormal and somehow lesser if they don't give in to the pressures they are subject to.