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Barely hanging on
Rising rates of stress, anxiety disorders overwhelm teenagers, spark concern
by Saifiyah Zaki
he wakes up with her hands already
Sshaking, heart beating a mile a minute
as she tries to get out of bed. She sits in
class with a loud buzzing in her ear, staring
at the paper but unable to focus on it
for more than a few seconds. She can’t
keep her foot from drumming against the
floor, her breathing becoming short and
ragged as her pen taps against the desk.
But even after countless deep breaths
and effort after effort to relax, the anxiety
doesn’t let up.
That’s what a morning before a big test
looks like for senior Kamilah Ashley, part
of the one-in-three teenagers who suffer
from an anxiety disorder according to the
National Institute of Health. The institute
reports that rates of these disorders have
risen steadily, going up by 20% from 2007
to 2017. Depression followed the same pattern,
with the total number of teenagers
who recently experienced depression increasing
by 59% between 2007 and 2017,
according to the Pew Research Center.
Seven-in-10 teenagers say anxiety and depression
are significant issues among their
peers — a concern they share with parents,
mental health researchers and clinicians.
However, experts are conflicted between
whether teenagers today face a greater
number of environmental stressors than in
the past, or if they simply aren’t equipped
to cope with them.
“Part of the problem is definitely us
managing stress poorly,” senior Hannah
Trippe said. “I do think we have stress
people didn’t have in the past, but there
is also more stress because we’re not
managing it right.”
Childhood crutches
icensed Professional Counselor and
LMurphy Middle School counselor Sylvia
Lansing says students’ feelings of overwhelmedness
may, in part, due to lack of
education in coping mechanisms.
“Out of the goodness of parents’ hearts,
they try to ‘rescue’ their children at a young
age instead of letting them [fail] when there
are no repercussions,” Lansing said. “So,
as kids get older and older, their ability to
problem-solve on their own diminishes because
every time a child has a problem, the
parents [try to resolve it].”
Director of Guidance Carah Marquez
describes how “steamroller parents” may
hinder their child’s stress management
skills by handling their stressors for them.
“Parents smooth the way and fix everything
for their kids so that if they hit a
minor problem, they get overwhelmed,”
Marquez said. “It’s created the lack of grit
and resilience that is contributing to kids
seeming to be a lot more fragile and being
affected more profoundly [by small