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    Academic pressure, an unsafe world, and identity pressures are major causes of rising anxiety amongst high school students. Academic pressure comes from standardized testing, college admissions competition, and a culture that values high achievement. Students also feel unsafe due to threats on social media and mass shootings in schools. LGBTQIA+ students experience intense anxiety from a lack of community understanding and pressure to conform. These stressors interconnect and exacerbate each other, often resulting in increased anxiety and loss of academic focus.

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    Academic pressure, an unsafe world, and identity pressures are major causes of rising anxiety amongst high school students. Academic pressure comes from standardized testing, college admissions competition, and a culture that values high achievement. Students also feel unsafe due to threats on social media and mass shootings in schools. LGBTQIA+ students experience intense anxiety from a lack of community understanding and pressure to conform. These stressors interconnect and exacerbate each other, often resulting in increased anxiety and loss of academic focus.

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    Here’s why we’re stressed

    By Rajit Gulhati
    Background
    • In my last presentation, I discussed the methods that
    could be used to combat anxiety amongst high school
    teenagers
    • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

    • Physical Exercise
    MAJOR CAUSES
    Anxiety amongst high schoolers has been rising due to increasing academic
    pressure, a dangerous and changing world, and identity pressures
    Academic Pressure An Unsafe World Identity Pressures
    Academic pressure has Due to a variety of Familial and Societal
    taken a toll on the changes, from the advent pressures have proven to
    student body as one of of social media to the be the largest reason for
    the largest reasons for increase in violent events anxiety amongst
    anxiety in the United in schools in America, LGBTQIA+ students in
    States and around the more teenagers feel the US and likely in the
    world. unsafe and uncertain in world.
    today’s world.
    Academic Pressure

    Teens today feel academic


    pressure more intensely
    than in the past.

    A more competitive college


    Due to “standardized This pressure may come
    admissions process due to
    testing and a culture of from friends and society, as
    increasing rates of
    achievement”, teens feel others begin to do stress,
    students attending college
    the need to perform well in you may feel similar
    increased pressure to
    school (McCarthy). pressure.
    distinguish yourself.
    An Uncertain World
    Due to changes in the world, more students are
    beginning to feel unsafe in schools
    Mass shootings in schools
    Threats on Social Media
    While these issues might not cause anxiety for many
    teenagers, for some, especially those who deal with
    heightened anxiety, this issue can cause severe stress
    since many teens may feel as though they are in
    constant danger
    Identity Pressures

    Transgender teenagers
    feel immense pressure
    in particular because of
    a lack of understanding
    and support from the
    community

    Conversely, even in
    “accepting places”,
    LGBTQIA+ students
    may be expected to act
    or behave a certain way
    For many
    LGBTQIA+
    students,
    heteronormative
    attitudes and
    homophobia cause
    intense anxiety
    Interconnectivity of Stressors
    Increased identity
    pressure

    Academic pressure
    Bullying/threats at
    sets in due to falling
    school or pressure
    grades; overall
    to conform
    anxiety rises

    Loss of focus and Feeling of danger or


    attention to uncertainty at
    classwork school
    Works Cited
    Daniels, Natasha. Anxiety Sucks!: a Teen Survival Guide. CreateSpace,
    2016.  
    Jenco, Melissa. “Studies: LGBTQ Youths Have Higher Rates of Mental
    Health Issues, Abuse.” AAP Gateway, 21 Aug. 2019, 
    https://www.aappublications.org/news/2018/04/16/lgbtq041618 .  
    María Guadalupe Acosta-Gómez, José María De la Roca-Chiapas, Alicia
    Zavala-Bervena, Antonio Eugenio Rivera Cisneros, Verónica Reyes Pérez et
    al. (2018) Stress in High School Students: A Descriptive Study. Journal of
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - 1(1):1-10. 
    McCarthy, Claire. “Anxiety in Teens Is Rising: What's Going
    On?” HealthyChildren.org, American Academy of Pediatrics, 30 Apr. 2019, 
    https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/emoti
    onal-problems/Pages/Anxiety-Disorders.aspx
    . 

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