US teens more stressed than adults

Fox ^ | 2/11/14

[workerbee]

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Many of the teenagers surveyed said they were suffering from irritability or angriness (40 percent), nervousness or anxiety (36 percent) or depression and sadness (33 percent) because of their stress. Sturgill told USA Today she sometimes skips meals because of high levels of stress.

“Our study this year gives us a window in looking at how early these patterns might begin," clinical psychologist Norman Anderson, the APA’s CEO told USA Today. "The patterns of stress we see in adults seem to be occurring as early as the adolescent years — stress-related behaviors such as lack of sleep, lack of exercise, poor eating habits in response to stress."

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[gorush]

Sad.

[freedumb2003]

Get a job and support a family, kid.

Participate in Atom Bomb drills every Friday and wait for them to drop The Big One, kid.

Live under jimmy carter (oh, wait, that one you match with obozo — it is a push).

Kids got noting to be stressed about, except stupid parents.

[El Cid]

Kind of reminds me of something I read from Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones. He remarked that in Spain, prior to the Spanish Civil War, how there were many people going to psychiatrists, and suffering from this, or that, psychosis... Once war broke out, people stopped contemplating their navels, and the majority of these psychosis 'vanished' (I grant that there are some who suffer from permanent issues -- but many of these afflictions are self-induced). Same thing in England prior to the outbreak of WWII -- then 'poof', pretty much gone.

Not that I'm advocating war as a means to cure these stress complaints -- but it seems that having time on one's hands tends to lead to these problems. A society that becomes more and more indentured to government entitlements will become sicker, and sicker... As Paul wrote, 'He that does not work should not eat'...

[Jeff Chandler]

Teenage Angst: A brand new phenomenon.

[Gen.Blather]

“Same thing in England prior to the outbreak of WWII — then ‘poof’, pretty much gone.”

Global warming, trans fats, all the liberal bullarky will vanish with the first real threat; war, a big flue epidemic, a financial collapse...

[Chode]

feh...

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

But seriesly, growing up has never been easy. Every teenager thinks he or she has it worse than ever before in history ... but then you get through it, and you get on with the rest of your life.

Wine helps.

[Coleus]

they have to go out and exercise, give texting a break.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If I was going to have to live in the country Barry and the ‘RATS are leaving them, I’d be stressed and angry too!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The parents or the teens? :)

[Tax-chick]

LOL! My mother asked her doctor about a prescription for anti-anxiety meds, and her doctor said, “Why, don’t you drink?”

[CorporateStepsister]

Stupid parents are a major source; try having a parent who is abusive (been there), or codependent (been there), or one who simply has their head up their arse (been there). Throw in being drugged and told you’re future-less, except for a life on disability (been there), it’s a mix for a seriously disturbed individual (I’m there, proud to say!).

As for jobs, they’re disappearing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

My late father started working at 3 and went out as a hired man at 12 so as to send money back to his family so they wouldn’t starve to death. There were times when all they had to eat was a potato. Not a potato a piece, a potato for all eight of them to share. His school lunch, when he was able to go to school, was a piece of corn bread with a little lard on it. What in the hell are these kids complaining about?

[BwanaNdege]

“Don’t sweat the small stuff!”

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Trying to get high enough grades and SAT scores to get into college (because they've been told they MUST get into college), then studying to keep good grades in college. Its no doubt stressful when you don't have a bigger frame of reference (and most kids don't), especially with the impression that your success later in life relies heavily on doing well academically now.

Then trying to even find a job in this terrible economy (even STEM workers are competing with "guest-workers" now), and establishing yourself with the cost of living through the roof. Statistically, young people today are much less likely to own a home or become financially sound than their parents. Its mighty difficult to get yourself off the ground when the economy and the country are going to hell.

A-bomb then, drone strike by your own government/terror-attack now. Different package, same sh**.

Don't kid yourself, young people have plenty to be stressed about -- its arguably one of the most stressful periods of life. Problem is, so many of today's youth are morally bankrupt and lacking in faith (and thus by extension psychologically weak), used to creature comforts, and lacking in perspective, compared to previous generations that stress doesn't roll off them the way it did for past youth. And of course, the majority of them slavishly support policies that make their lives difficult, but that's another story...

[tomkat]

It's certainly not a cure-all, but this place can help.

Don't let the first-glance veneer of smartassed commentary/humor fool ya.

FReepers' breadth of experience and depth of empathy has been mighty impressive over the years.

[GeronL]

ok... what is causing this “stress”?

[freedumb2003]

>>Trying to get high enough grades and SAT scores to get into college (because they’ve been told they MUST get into college), then studying to keep good grades in college. Its no doubt stressful when you don’t have a bigger frame of reference (and most kids don’t), especially with the impression that your success later in life relies heavily on doing well academically now.<<

The same was true 30 years ago.

>>Then trying to even find a job in this terrible economy (even STEM workers are competing with “guest-workers” now), and establishing yourself with the cost of living through the roof. Statistically, young people today are much less likely to own a home or become financially sound than their parents. Its mighty difficult to get yourself off the ground when the economy and the country are going to hell.<<

The same was true 30 years ago (ever hear of “Stagflation?”)

>>A-bomb then, drone strike by your own government/terror-attack now. Different package, same sh**.<<

Yeah, kids today really think they will be targets of a drone strike by the NSA. Since that has happened.. never.

>>Don’t kid yourself, young people have plenty to be stressed about — its arguably one of the most stressful periods of life. <<

The same was true 30 years ago. We just didn’t whine about it.

>>Problem is, so many of today’s youth are morally bankrupt and lacking in faith (and thus by extension psychologically weak), used to creature comforts, and lacking in perspective, compared to previous generations that stress doesn’t roll off them the way it did for past youth. And of course, the majority of them slavishly support policies that make their lives difficult, but that’s another story...<<

The only reason kids are stressed is because they are told they are. They are no worse off and in many/most ways are better off than every preceding generation.

They are whiners, that is all. And they are encouraged and enabled to be so. They need a good kick in the ass and a slap in the face.

[Bigg Red]

Admittedly, I did not go to the link, but I am wondering if the researcher has studied the influence of a lack of active participation in church/temple.