Teen stress from a teen perspective | Michaela Horn | TEDxNaperville

A simple experiment to discover what stresses high school students leads to disturbing results that soon become a story on their …

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  1. anyone else when you feel bad you maybe know that is stress but you say to yourself you are not stressed because adults say you don't know what is it and you really BELIEVE you are not stressed even if you actually are?

  2. I'm in college and stressed. Im doing a self study software development course and my project is due but the info in my textbooks aren't enough for me to apply it to my project. I feel like giving up, I'm constantly working and feeling anxious and depressed.😭

  3. Form where I belong, it's basically that there are only two things which can cause you stress:
    -Devices
    -You being lazy and later cramming up all the studies by the time of your exam.
    Because parents say the only responsibility you have is to study and you are getting stressed about THAT?!

  4. As a teenager, I can agree. I have to do school, then I go to work to pay for more school in the future. After work, I come home and do school until 9 PM. After I still have chores to do which take half an hour. After chores, I have a whole 30 minutes to do anything. It is stressful. Not to mention studying for exams!

  5. Telling kids that they don't get to feel bad because there are others who has it worse is the same way of telling kids that you don't get to feel good because there are others who has it better..

  6. Hey to whoever reads this comment just reply and rant about your your problems cuz i'm a stranger and won't judge you and even though there is no way for me to physically help you I can atleast listen and you can something off your chest.

  7. You know what makes my stress and depression worse? When my dad says I’m too young to be stressed. Oh what’s that? Now I have to go do my 3-6 hours of homework.

  8. Almost everyone here is facing lack of sleep but for me i wanna do a lot of stuff that i love but my parents think it's not good for my future . I spend most of my time on mobile watching something useless cuz it is the only way i can forget about things I'm going through .I feel like I'm betraying my parents and wasting their money. I've wasted a lot of time and during exams i just dunno what's happening around me i try to cover up but i can't and i sleep a lot i guess . I dunno if someone's gonna read it but THANK YOU SO MUCH

  9. Learning should not be about finding it hard to even get up in the morning, about high levels of stress, achieving high grades above all things. Learning should ideally be about gaining wisdom. What wisdom are we passing on to our children by imposing all these pressures and stresses upon them? This is the most ridiculous situation that children in so many schools in so many cities in so many countries find themselves in now. This is just not healthy! In fact it is CRUEL!

    They need less homework and more free time to just be. Just to run around, hang out with their friends, chill out, relax, simply have a laugh, just to have fun and learn from each other. This is also valuable learning. Then they will feel refreshed and ready to start a new day of learning. It’s all about balance.

    The balance between work and play has been lost! How can any child learn when they are sad, when they are stressed out of their heads, when they don’t have time simply to think. How can they become who they really need to be, when everything they are exposed to puts them under such dreadful pressure. To be dictated to, to lose ones sense of self, when their true potential is lost with ridiculous impositions of such heavy expectation.

    All schools, in all cities in all countries should review their situation and think about it from the perspective of the child.

    Our children are our most precious commodity. Treat them with respect, don’t abuse them. Change school practice NOW, then your precious children will be able to give to the world every unique gift they can offer.

    Think about it! ❤️❤️❤️

  10. I am 15 y.o. I have had hard time mentally for the last 1.5 years, because I think I made to much mistakes in my life. I have really good mark and I love learning foreign languages, but I feel like I am not working good enough for everything I have. I have been online – schooling for the last 2 years and I feel like I am not working as hard as my peers cause I am studying from home. I got 3rd place in my school English competition and I did not really feel any happiness, because I thought that "another people work harder". I have loved biology for 7 years of my life and I am not that passionate now. The problem is that I am a graduation year student and I wanted to go to the medical uni, but I don't want anymore. My mom recommends me to study philology, I agree with her now. I have been obsessed with music since I was 6., i have been learning accordion and piano for 6 years there, now I play guitar. Anyway, I don't know, where all this thoughts come really from, but anyway I feel much better after telling you about it.🙂

  11. I'm 16. I want to create a space like a blog that's not on social media (as in Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok) and talk about these topics. I've been looking for hours and couldn't find a single thing about parenting from a teenager's perspective except when Is tumbled onto this video. Yet even the few videos I've found are minuscule in time compared to the hundreds of 20-minute ones by adults. I talked to my mom about it and she supports me in attempting to make something like this myself. Does anyone have any tips about this? Or even things I can speak up about- I have several ideas but hearing what others my age have to say sounds like good inspiration.

  12. 2-just think u are teenage so u will have mistake try not to commit mistake
    3 – lve ur self,speak ur self
    4- study cz u are life means yours so u have to study
    ❤️❤️and ia m 14 ahah😂

  13. I just wished that my parents would understand. It really seem like all what matters is school school school school, future future future future. I'm almost done with my senior year and all they care about is school and my education. I've always told my mom, "mom I'm burnt out." but they just always brush it off. It's hurts the most when all they tell me is, "you have to care. You don't care. All you do is okay games and do nothing." I play games to keep me distracted from becoming the worst for myself. I doubt have my older sister to help me this time, and I feel even more alone to the point where I don't want to feel our think of anything. I think my plan is… To continue working and save to money, while doing that I want to try to find sunbathing that I actually enjoy doing. I'm planning to get at least my associates/masters then just work. For sure, I'm gonna cry so much 😂 I'm stressed enough, and no matter how many times I try to explain myself their response to it is, "that's an excuse."

  14. Im not a teenager yet but I still have had depression heres some of the things i went through at school
    -a rumour spread about me
    -about idk 5-9 bullies(most of them dont even interact with me anymore)
    -i began thinking i deserved to die
    -getting hit
    with a stick once recently(dont worry it was only one hit)
    -student threatening me (this was years ago)
    -seeing my friend become besties with the person who hit me with a stick and feelin betrayed
    -being lonely as heck probably cause my anxiety made me shy away from people
    -getting panicked whenever i was near my bully
    Oh god its good im changing schools this year

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