Title: Find Out About the Causes of Teenage Anxiety
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Content: 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. Often peer pressures deviate sharply from what parents recommend and/or demand, which results in extra tension from the disconnect between parental rules and teenage social rules. Teens have quite a number of reasons to feel the angst they are so famous for, and that angst is often rooted in anxiety. This doesn't even include smaller reasons like difficulty in school, trouble meeting new people, college prep stressors, high school fashion and "growing up," and so much more. ADVERTISEMENT
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