Summary: The Rise Of Anxiety In Adolescents

In the article, “High Anxiety”, the author, Sandra Long Weaver, analyzes the recent spike in anxiety and depression among college students. Weaver explains that the main problem students are facing when they enter college is anxiety and from that they suffer from depression. She explains that young adults are more aware of life events that affect them such as the job prospect. She explains how increased academic standards and parent involvement contributes to the immense rise of these disorders among college students In a student survey she states that over 50% of students suffer from anxiety because of the academic struggles.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, mental illnesses affect 1 out of every 5 adults. 43.8 million per year suffer from mental illnesses, including 21.4% of teenagers. Crestwood senior Allison Martinek has dealt with anxiety and depression since she was clinically diagnosed at age 10. Her anxiety often times causes panic attacks and makes it difficult to focus, leaving her feeling overwhelmed. She comments, “It makes it [school] extremely hard. Sometimes just getting out of bed is just really hard, and it’s a struggle and you don’t want to go to school or see people. The feeling of people staring at you, even though you know they’re not… makes you not want to be there.”

In some studies, it shows that school children or a young person going through adolescents may be going through bad depression or anxiety.

One thing we discussed in class that I found interesting was disorders. I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and I found it fascinating to learn more about my disorders. When learning about these disorders I couldn’t help but think that most students start to feel anxious or depressed in college due to being overwhelmed by school and/or work. In an article by Joel Brown entitled “The Most Common Mental Health Diagnosis in College Students,(2016)” he discusses how anxiety is most common in students.

Anxiety Disorder is a sudden feeling of qualms, uneasiness, nervousness, and anxiousness. Symptoms vary for each person. In the adolescent years anxiety shines the most. With school work, and social interaction. In our society, many people diagnose themselves with anxiety, because they are nervous, they believe they have an anxiety disorder. In the adolescent years anxiety is there, but usually mild, in today’s society, because studies show that anxiety has increased over the years. The denotation of anxiety is a sudden feeling of sickness, apprehension, paranoia. Eager and anxious are often used incorrectly, using the opposing one as the other. Anxiety means anticipation of an impending event. However, eager implies that the person looks

This group is for students who suffer from school related anxiety. The group will be a closed, counseling group for any student enrolled, full time, in their college or university program. This group will focus specifically on anxiety associated with school stressors. It will not focus on other sources of anxiety such as job, family and relationships, although these may be identified within the group as being affected by the school stressors. The goal of this group is to help members reduce their anxiety. Some of the objectives to meet this goal are to teach members how to identify and

Even though the discussion about mental health has become more common, teenage mental health is often left neglected. 37 percent of students 14 and older drop out of school because of mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and the number continues to grow (“Mental Health by the Numbers”). Untreated mental illness in teens can be particularly debilitating because of the added stress from family life, school, work, and the pressure of adolescence. Teenage brains are still learning and developing, yet some are suffering so much that they commit suicide, the third most common cause of death in young adults (“Suicide”).

Need: According to nami.org, approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%. Research has found that about 90% of individuals who die by suicide experience a mental illness. Social anxiety affects about 15 million individuals across America, most cases start around the age of 13. They often suffer anxiety, difficulty focusing and social challenges. Half of them drop out of high school, in part because many schools don’t manage to meet their needs. (pbs.org)

Children and adolescents in the United States face different psychological challenges, such as anxiety disorders, depression, attention deficit disorder, as well as many other psychiatric diagnoses (Bloom, Dey, & Freeman, 2006). The prevalence rate of children diagnosed with a mental disorder is alarming. According to Merikangas et al. (2010), 22.2% of American children and adolescents get diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder that is severe enough to impair their ability to attend school and learn (Bucci, Marques, Oh, & Harris, 2016). Kids that are plagued by various psychological illnesses may experience a difficult time concentrating and staying focused in school. Additionally, the over-accumulation of toxic stress, either due to the pressures of schools or environmental (i.e., difficult exams, poverty, household dysfunction, etc.), can have negative and detrimental effects during childhood, as well as adulthood (Bucci et al., 2016).

Clinical and community settings have the highest prevalence of anxiety disorders pertaining to children and adolescents. Thus, effective treatment is produced when development and implementation interests are increased when anxiety disorders in children and adolescent are at the highest prevalence. According to Psychiatric Times (2008), anxiety disorders are more frequently associated with impairments that psychosocially significant; such as poor social relationships, reduction in performance academically, and decreased self-esteem. Overall, leading to untreated anxiety in adulthood. Negative consequences follow behind children and adolescents who have a high prevalence of anxiety disorder, making it difficult to identify important key factors

Anxiety and depression have been an ongoing issue for decades, but recently the numbers started increasing and we’re trying to figure out why. I’m sure we all wanna know why kids, teens, and adults are more depressed and anxiety ridden than they were back in 2009, right? Well, I just might have a solution to that question. Society, School, and even a neurological imbalance could very easily be blamed for the rising increase in these disorders.

There are other illnesses related to anxiety that a teenager can experience. Some of these illnesses include: Phobias, Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Panic Disorder (Harvard). There are many teens that are required to deal with these issues. "About 30% of girls and 20% of boys–totaling 6.3 million teens–have had an anxiety disorder, according to data from the National Institute of Mental Health” (Schrobsdorff, Susanna). Only 37% of students at Paoli Jr/Sr High School believed that 6.3 million teens suffer from anxiety (Tuell,

I mean that in that most people are not aware of social anxiety, but it impacts about 18% of the U.S adult population, and this excludes other mental illnesses(Woodworth n. pg.). Those adults with social anxiety was most likely developed in adolescents meaning that some adults have been dealing with social anxiety with upwards of ten years. There are a few different factors that go into a person developing social anxiety and why adolescents is the most common age for social anxiety to develope that I will discuss in later paragraphs.

This is an article that specifically looks at anxiety in the school setting for adolescents. This article starts off with a story of a girl named Samantha. Samantha is a fourteen year old student that has test taking anxiety. She feels sweaty and would see the nurse daily because of her anxiousness. The article talks about the case of Samantha being common with many students in school. The article then goes into the different characteristics such as worry. Anxiety can manifest in three different ways: behaviorally, physiologically, and cognitively. Many different behaviors that children exhibit because of anxiety are reflected their attempts to control their anxiety. When discussing anxiety, there are different causes of anxiety and

An individual that has strives to live with anxiety or an anxiety disorder faces many struggles daily because of the feelings the conditions stimulate. There are an infinite amount of symptoms, causes, and consequences, but an equal amount of treatment options and ways to handle anxiety. Anxiety disorders can be viewed as general or extremely specific, but all in all each one affects the life of a person living with one or knowing someone who struggles with it. In regards to teenagers specifically, between three and five percent children and adolescents in the United States have some sort of anxiety disorder (Foa and Andrews 2). With the many challenges teenagers already face because of pressure based on school, athletics, social