You attended a talk organised by your school on mental health.

During
the talk, the speaker made the following comment: 'Academics stress
increases the chances of developing depression among students'.

Write an essay recommending the ways to deal with the problems. Write
at least 250 words

The society we live in has high regards for academic excellence which
often creates an academic stress among students. Academic stress is
defined as the body’s response to academic related demands that
exceeds adaptive capabilities of students. Moreover, the educational
system also plays a major role in increasing students stress levels. This
stress serious and harmful effects to students. The problems caused by
depression due to academic stress are pressure from parents and
teachers, lack of sleep and lack of concentration. However, these
problems can be solved by being understanding, have power naps and
having a conducive environment.
Academic stress causes depression due to pressure from parents and
the teachers. This is because students have to endure long hours of
school and they are often tired. Every subject teacher gives student
heavy workload with short deadlines. Parents are sometimes
overconcerned and tend to send them for extra classes. Certain parents
do not understand and keep pushing for excellent results. In order to
overcome this problem, students should voice out and express
themselves. The teachers and parents should empathise and
understand the stress that students are undergoing. Thus, academic
stress will be reduced among students
Depression causes lack of sleep because there is no proper time
management. When a student is depressed, they tend to procrastinate
and not manage time well. Students who procrastinate end up letting tasks
sit until the last minute and then they feel a lot of stress finishing it at the
last hour. The solution to this problem is to manage time properly.
Students should try to revise and complete their assignments daily.
Moreover, they should schedule out their day. Students can also have
power naps as frequently as possible to relax the mind and body.
Therefore, students will learn to overcome academic stress.
Academic stress also causes depression due to lack of concentration.
This is because the environment at home causes students to lose
concentration when doing assignments or revising. For example, the
student loses focus due to the loud noise from the television or
disturbance from their siblings. In order, to solve this problem students
should have a conducive environment. This will help them gain focus
and creates a positive learning environment. Therefore, this will help
students in reducing academic stress.
In today’s highly competitive world, students face numerous stress
especially academic stress. Academic stress has become a part of
student’s life. Therefore, it is important to understand these problems
and come up with an effective solution.
 You attended a talk by Puan Nadine Yacosta from the Ministry of Health, which was
recently organised in your school. The following comment was made by the guest speaker. 
       “   Obesity among youngsters is a serious illness “
Write an essay recommending ways to prevent obesity among youngsters    

In today’s fast moving world, obesity among youngsters has accelerated

to almost 20%. Obesity is very common and a serious problem among
youngsters as it can impact their life quality. Obesity can lead to serious
life threatening diseases.