PEER PRESSURE

Who actually peers are?

Often, peers are thought of as friends,
but peers can be anyone of a similar
status such as people who are the same
age, who have the same abilities, and
who share a social status.

What is peer pressure?

Peer pressure is actually nothing but the
‘norms’ which are thought to be
addressed to peacefully survive in
society. If a person fails to get it done he
or she is thought to be excluded from
the society and is often made fun of.
 This is hazardous to the person's self
confidence and he/she ends up
struggling life long.
This thing often starts in childhood for
example, when a small boy cries at
school he is told by his friend that he is
crying like a girl. This instills a feeling in
the boy that he should not address his
feelings in front of other people so as to
meet the standards of being a man.
This of course is the most basic
example of peer pressure.

Signs and symptoms of a person who

has been severely affected by this:-
1) Being over conscious about the
environment:- when a person starts
 to be over conscious about the
environment he/she is trying to show
that or prepare to show that he/she
suits the committee and address the
norms set.
2) Lack of sleep is also one of the
symptoms that might show up in
such case.
3) To cope up with the happenings
that person is seen to have sudden
loss of his conscious mind and enter
a world where he/she doesn't get to
remember the mishappenings in the
past.
Here some examples of negative peer
pressure:
1)Convincing a friend to skip school
2)Pushing someone to buy e-
cigarettes online
3)Pressuring a friend to drink or try
drugs
4)Encouraging a peer to fight someone
or bully someone

When a person tries such things

he/she actually cutting down his
years of living.
Peer pressure is specific in teenager
Peer pressure at adolescence can
altogether change the persons own
self not for the time being but for the
whole life. Friends force to try
unprescribed drugs and alcohol , and
these people justify this as ‘ just to
try’. But later this becomes an
addiction which hinders your
performance at every place and time.
You traverce on the wrong path if
you follow these things and if you
don't follow or get involved your are
pressurized to an extent that you get
into depression, mental trauma and
various other psychological ailments.

This is believed that if you don't fall in

a relationship at this age you are not
in the category others are in. Again
it's a do or die situation for the
person if he does it he will loose
track of himself and if he doesn't he
will be in some sort of psychological
misbanlance.
The point to stress is that everybody
faces the problem and then each one
creates this problem for the others as
well.
Now we know that we are not an
exception we can look ways to minimise
the impact of peer pressure:-
1) Trying to get in the right company of
friends can help a lot.
2) Parents guidance is an essential on
such topics as they are ones who
can never guide you in the wrong
direction unless they themselves are
victims to this.