YOUTH STRESS HIGHER THAN DURING GREAT DEPRESSION !!!

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Matt Friedeman Youth Stress Higher Than During Great Depression
Date: 1/12/2010
Matt Friedeman, InTheFight.com

Youth today face many problems that no other generation has had to deal with. Five times as many young people deal with anxiety than youth who were studied in the Great Depression. In other words, youth today face a huge amount of stress.

AP:

A new study has found that five times as manyhigh school and college students are dealing with anxiety and othermental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in theGreat Depression era.

The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychologicalquestionnaire used as far back as 1938, confirm what counselors oncampuses nationwide have long suspected as more students struggle withthe stresses of school and life in general.

So why are young people today dealing with so much stress? This might be at least part of the answer.

Students themselves point to everything from pressure to succeed -self-imposed and otherwise - to a fast-paced world that's only sped upby the technology they love so much.

Sarah Ann Slater, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Miami,says she feels pressure to be financially successful, even when shedoesn't want to.

"The unrealistic feelings that are ingrained in us from a young age- that we need to have massive amounts of money to be considered asuccess - not only lead us to a higher likelihood of feelinginadequate, anxious or depressed, but also make us think that the onlyvalue in getting an education is to make a lot of money, which is thewrong way to look at it," says Slater, an international studies majorwho plans to go to graduate school overseas.