subject: Express Support In Stress Situations [print this page] Adolescence - the most difficult period in human life. This time, when all the senses sharpened: if you love something with all the passion, if you hate, then with all malice, and if friends - with all my heart.
And because any conflict, the most insignificant misunderstanding may have been a psychic drama for the impressionable teenager. That is why teenage stress - a phenomenon quite common, almost obligatory.
Causes of teenage stress
Causes of stress in adolescence can become a really serious trouble, and a slight grudge against someone.
Undoubtedly, the strongest teenage stress occurs when a teenager is facing a situation of danger or violence. Stress for this reason, typical for people of any age, but very deep impression they leave it on the psyche of a teenager.
Adolescence - a time when the mind is completely changed, it is a period when the child is gradually transformed into an adult. And if in this period, a teenager is experiencing a major stress, had little chance to become a harmonious, open and friendly personality. Surely, the effect of stress state in adolescence will be any inferiority complex or closed, or phobia.
Situations of violence or clashes with the danger, of course, are important reasons of teenage stress. Others - painful for the psyche of a teenager reasons are:
Death of a loved one;
Parents' divorce.
Teenagers to heart perceive even the slightest conflict in the family. Not to speak of a family drama, like a divorce. Because of hypersensitivity and increased suspiciousness many teenagers without any reason at all begin to family troubles to blame themselves. They think that with them that something is wrong, and therefore around the trouble.
Teens painfully suffer when their parents do not understand, when mother and father constantly arguing, when someone from their seriously ill.
Symptoms of teenage stress
Stress - a dangerous phenomenon for a teenager. So parents should be particularly attentive to the children of this age to prevent teenage immersion in stress or time to begin to deal with stress.
However, to start a fight, we must first find the stress. By what symptoms you might guess, that the teenager is under stress?
The first sign of stress is a distant teenager from his peers and loved ones. Wittingly or unwittingly, he becomes withdrawn and lonely. Does not want to answer the phone, does not want anyone to see.
The reason for this distancing from the people is often a sharp decrease in self-evaluation, the appearance of uncertainty in their own abilities, feeling that the whole world does not understand or accept.
Another symptom of teenage stress is the distraction of attention, forgetfulness teenager. He forgets what happened yesterday, does not see friends on the street, constantly hovering in the clouds and can not concentrate on anything. Parents in this case you can not scold your child, you have to understand and try to help by contacting a psychologist to help.
Stress
Parents should help their child cope with stress, as a teenager on their own can not overcome the psychological crisis.
The easiest and yet most effective way to combat teenage stress is the demonstration of unconditional love and affection, as well as the manifestation of attention and understanding from parents. Even if, at first glance, the teenager will not accept your care and attention, believe me, he is in need of them in difficult times.
Also, parents need to show confidence in the adolescent. Should not take decisions for him in any situations, he is no longer just a child and has the right to begin self-build their lives.
If a teenager is overloaded with extracurricular activities that parents should convince him to choose just one thing: either the sports section, or lessons in music school. Otherwise, Teen and will be knocked out of the forces, trying to excel in all, and eventually sink into stress.
