The text is called “It’s never been easy being a teenager. But is this now a generation in crisis?” and was written by Tracy McVeigh, The Guardian in September 2016. The text focuses on the fact that it is harder to be an adolescent today than in the past. Young people's mental health condition affects more and more young people today, it can be anything from anxiety, depression and stress due to education, social media or something else completely. Adolescent psychotherapist Julia Britton says that young people face many of the same challenges as before with alcohol abuse, drug abuse and financial pressure, but the reason for the pressure has changed. For example, the educational pressure with exams and grades has increased in recent years and many more are affected mentally today, which affects the mental health of many young people today.
The challenges that young people face today act a lot and the educational pressures.
“I think there are far more pressures educationally, more sense that it’s all hinged on one exam”
the young people today are pressured and worried about whether they are able to perform and live up to the demands they meet on their education. Characters also take up more and more space and there is a much greater pressure on young people today, you feel that you have to be the best all the time in order to be good enough. already in 8th grade, you have to decide what you want later in life, such as education and work in the future. Here we must already create an awareness of what we would later in life and the very first pressure arises. One must have good enough grades to get into the education one dreams of.
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