And what are "we" doing to cause it?
"[The] pressure has only been heightened by the commonly held belief that it is tougher than ever for a young person to make it in this economy."
Yeah, never mind if it's true. Fact is, it's tougher for all of us to make it in the economy of the AmeriKan Empire's decline.
Then again, maybe you kids are just a bunch of lazy shits.
"Schools work to relieve teens’ stress; Some students suffer panic or anxiety attacks" by Martha Irvine | Associated Press, February 03, 2013
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. — Just one of a number of ways high schools across the nation try to address what some call an epidemic of stressed-out students.
Some schools now offer yoga classes or teach relaxation techniques in the classroom. Others, from California to Minnesota and New Jersey, are instituting homework-free nights or are offering a bit of free time between classes — the equivalent of recess for teens.
In Maine, at least two high schools have converted classrooms into ‘‘wellness rooms’’ staffed by volunteer professionals who offer massage therapy and other stress-reducing treatments for students, with parental permission.
The idea is to help them slow down and cope with their problems in an overpacked, 24-7 world, where many students stay up late to finish homework and fall asleep with their phones in their hands.
‘‘Things cycle for them so quickly. So it’s hard for them to be able to develop the patience, or the ability to think something through and to realize that it may take some time for it to get resolved,’’ says Douglas Berg, a social worker at Prospect High, where he and other staff are seeing more students hospitalized with anxiety and panic attacks related to stress.
Some might question whether a dog in the school corridors, or a 20-minute break, addresses the deeper issues at hand. But many school officials say they have to do what they can to alleviate the growing pressure to achieve. That pressure, they say, has only been heightened by the commonly held belief that it is tougher than ever for a young person to make it in this economy.
More than ever, a college degree is viewed as a must.
It probably is, and we all know why. It's the next bank bailout.
So more students are taking college courses in high school, and even more are enrolling in rigorous ‘‘advanced placement,’’ classes to try to earn college credit. Add year-round sports and after-school jobs and volunteering, as a way to bolster the college application, and many students say they have little time for anything else....
‘‘the new normal’’
That's agenda-pushing newspeak for a f*** job.
Some parents say school shootings, including the recent massacre in Newtown, Conn., only worsen the stress.
‘‘My son came home from school and said, ‘I’m really worried this could happen at our school,’ ’’ says Jane Robertson, a mother of a 16-year-old in Belfast, Maine....
See: The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed
Any drills being planned at your school?
Overall, a recent national survey of adolescent mental health found that about 8 to 10 percent of students ages 13 to 18 have an anxiety disorder. And of those teens, only 18 percent received mental health care, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
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