Addressing Rising Depression and Anxiety Among Teenagers Today

This essay addresses the increasing prevalence of depression and anxiety among teenagers, attributing it to factors such as heightened competition, social pressures, and hormonal changes. It highlights symptoms like apathy, difficulty concentrating, and changes in behavior, emphasizing the importance of recognizing depression as a treatable illness rather than a weakness. The essay discusses treatment options, including counseling, medication (antidepressants and CBT), and lifestyle adjustments like physical activity and engaging in enjoyable hobbies. It also explores the root causes of teen depression, including traumatic life events, adverse social conditions, biological imbalances, and the impact of substance abuse. The essay concludes by advocating for self-acceptance, pursuing personal interests, and avoiding the pressures of conforming to societal expectations, suggesting these as key strategies for overcoming depression.

TEENAGE

Increasing depression and anxiety in teenagers
Learning process and education is most important duration of life that nurture oneself to an
acceptable personality. At this teenage, people enjoy and explore their life by learning and
make fun. In today’s era, increasing competition, non-acceptance and jealously creates
anxiety among the teenagers. Depression is an illness that can emerge due to many causes
and in many forms. Others reasons can be that a teen starts developing the thought of
worthlessness due to inadequacy of grades (Elder, 2018). Teenage is the time of hovac of
hormones and body changes. Teenager with depression and anxiety starts eating more,
sleeping more, and exhibits criminal behaviour. Various signs such has apathy, difficulty in
concentrating and decision-making, memory loss, dropping the education, withdrawing from
friends and irresponsible behaviour. High time to create, innovate, explore at highest
enthusiasm occur only in this age but now a days teen depression is a mental health problem
that lead to a continuous feeling of loss of life activities (Miller, and Raison, 2016). It affects
the way in which teenager think. It leads to dysfunctional, physical, and emotional challenges
of uplifting self from the depressing state. They suffer from high peer pressure from the
academic expectation and dynamic. Although, what cannot be done with will power. Teen
depression is not a weakness but if it continued for long time, it requires a treatment because
overcoming through will power is not easy. To treat depression doctors use treatments such
as counselling and medications. Symptoms of teen depression lead to change in behaviour
that can cause distress and non-acceptance by school, home or in other social activities.
Emotional changes such as feeling low that even includes wiping for no reason, anger and
remain lonely. Depression causes extreme sensitivity due to failure and trouble thinking
(Barthas et al., 2017). Researchers and doctors suggest medication, physical activities, and
engaging oneself in other enjoying activities that relieves the symptoms of depression. An
approach can be suggesting the patient antidepressant medication and tablets that is approved

by institute of Mental Health. Other treatment can be use of CBT (cognitive behavioural
therapy) that can help the teenagers to identify the negative habit of demotivating and
depressing oneself by saying that you cannot do anything in your life rather it is important to
realise the efficiency of time and remain liveliness. Negative thinking can lead to increase the
symptoms of depression. Another approach is the combination of both medication and CBT.
Competition in the global demand has increase the level of depression to a shocking level
because every company wants to hire best able and potential employees that can serve them
best and passed from best universities. Therefore, it is important to understand every person
is different with potential, talent, and different attributes. It is important to live in the nature
for which you are made for. Just live the way you are, running behind the jobs that can pay
you a just a sum of money sometimes cannot lead oneself to office (Haberler, 2017). Major
causes of depression have so many factors and situations behind contributed to such
depressing behaviour. Traumatic life situation such as losing the loved person either through
divorce or through death can trigger depression (Siu et al., 2016). Teenagers living in adverse
social condition and family issues such as domestic violence and disgraced behaviour with
grandparents can never live in a lovable environment. The bringing up environment of home
and school should be carefree and loving but sometimes discipline is important while treating
the children. Apart from situation and social bringing, biological changes such as negative
thinking can lead to secretion of unnecessary elements or chemicals in brain that creates
irritation and annoying behaviour. It is not necessary that illness will be caused only through
family issues sometimes biological imbalances can get lead one to mental disorder.
Depression is a sign of medical sufferings such as PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome) and other
mental disorders. Teenagers have become very impatient now a days that lead them to realise
their stress caused due to jealous (impact of competition) and insecurity. They start getting in
the influence of those people who take heavy doses of drugs and in result of that, they get

addicted to it. Although some medical prescription suggest that antidepressant pills which are
composed of drug that can cause more side effects. Some major illegal drugs can cause
depression. The solution is to revive oneself and do what that fascinates you heart, it can be
any sport or any other art form such as dancing, singing, and playing instruments (Fried, and
Nesse, 2015).

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