S.O.S! Stressed Out Students!
Anonymous
Female, 15
With only a month after being a freshman she started feeling stressed. It must feel horrible feeling stressed when you barley go into high school. Again, new environments are not easy to handle. As piles and piles of work got put on top of her she was shocked and stressed. When she gets stressed, it impacts her positively. Asking so many students, it was so rare to hear that. Hearing her perspective was also very interesting. With stress on her mind, she has ambition to get things done. Rather than having her thinking about stress, it keeps her moving forward. I believe she looks at stress that way because she strives to meet her parent’s expectations. Her parents “motivate” her by pushing her and pressuring her to getting straight A’s. Since her family expects so much, she can’t afford to get bad grades. So she completes all of her assignments and finds ways to go above and beyond. Although, when she is stressed she enjoys painting. Just like every body’s joys in life, this makes her happy and it makes her forget about the expectations and focus on passion instead.
Anonymous
Male, 16
He’s not so happy with school, he’s tired of homework. He mainly stresses about school work, not only that, but he stresses about procrastination. He wishes he could change but he’s bad at managing his time. The bad thing about this, he blames it all on himself. He looks at himself as a “failure”. Stress doesn’t just affect his grades but his family. Since he’s locked up all day doing work, he has to bail on his parents. He misses the times where school was easy, grades were easy, so much free time, and going out with his family. Before the struggle, he went out to places like the mall, the movies, restaurants, and more. Once he started getting piles of homework, he realized that he couldn’t finish that in one day. So then he started slacking more and more as the year went by. “I went from being a top grade student to a failure.” He says. When his mom saw how he was doing she started crying, she didn’t realize that his distractions her actually affecting him. Something triggered in him, seeing his mom that way, he never wanted to see that again. So when he went back to school he started giving it his all, he managed to do well by doing the hardest work first then the easiest for last. That way he wouldn’t have to stress so much. That helped him reduce his stress and it help on raising his grades. He now regrets falling behind because now it’s on his permanent record. If he keeps improving as the years go by, it will show that there is such thing as hope and progression.