Anxiety in teenagers and adults is rising and a study showed that the number of girls who feel anxiety, tension, and fear has jumped by 55 % over five years. It is normal for a teenage girl to worry about her homework, friendship stress, overscheduling, family conflict, belonging, schoolwork and grades, love interest, future, and body image. Not all teenagers require professional help for their stress, but sometimes worries won’t go away on their own and this is the sign that your child needs professional help. Never take your kid’s mental health for granted that may not be bothersome right now but later on, it could be a cause of great problems.

Teenage is the time of mental, physical, and social growth, and for some kidsit could be scary and they might be struggling with it. When puberty hits them they need special love and care, and they have questions to be asked. Try to be more friendly and available than ever before to make them feel important and wanted and try to guide them in every aspect. Because at that time kids have so many questions and confusions going on in their mind and need special care and attention to answer them.

Also, teenage life is a time when they have to decide about their subjects, work, and career- that’s a lot of pressure for them to go through. It is normal in teenage life to have worries and fears but treating worries as a great issue could be problematic and can do more harm than good.

Teenagers may start seeing this world as an unsafe place, but do not worry they will learn with time and not all worries need professional help. Just try to be more available for your kids in their life-changing periods so that they may not feel unsafe and exposed to the outer world. Anxiety is a normal reaction to challenging situations.

Here are a few tips with which you can access your child’s mental health and need to be concerned about them.

Signs of anxiety

• At teenage kids have a lot more challenges, opportunities, and experiences – they become confused about how to tackle everything and start feeling anxiety.
• They feel anxious when faced with unfamiliar, dangerous, or stressful situations.
• Anxiety includes body signals like sinking feelings, butterflies, uncomfortable and tense feelings.
• When your child constantly seems worried all the time and nothing works, this is a sign they need professional help.
• As their independence increases, they might start getting worried about getting a job. They also feel stressed seeing their fellow responding in this time differently and somewhat better.
• Anxiety is also a normal emotion like anger and embarrassment and in most cases, it goes away on its own without special treatment, and sometimes it stays a little longer and prevents them from doing everyday things.

Sign of depression

• Ups and downs are normal for everyone. But if your child starts feeling cranky, sad, guilty, dull, and confused all the time then it must be a time that she is going through depression and needs help.
• Depression may make her give up a lot of time, trouble sleeping, and a thought that people do not like her. She may start isolating herself for these reasons.

When your teen needs help

• Worry which does not go away
• Worry that gets worse over time
• Worry that interferes with daily life activities

How to help them cope

• Teach them thought management
• Talk to them
• Teach them problem-solving
• Teach them prioritizing their self
• Express confidence
• Teach them how to release stress

Final thoughts

An adolescent is the most stressful time of life and teens that do not have ways to handle stress turns into rage, violence, and other negative behavior when vulnerable and upset. When we teach our kids positive coping skills we give them alternatives to deal with the negative thoughts that can help them turn problem situations into positive outcomes.

 Try to tackle teenage issues and worries by making them believe that you have confidence and trust in them and try to tell them every off and on, assure them that you are trying to understand how they feel. Try to stay positive with them that can help your kid to feel secure and understood.