Many teens today feel they're under enormous pressure, led by academic stress. One girl described to CPRNews how her school's hyper-competitive environment drove her to a breakdown.
CPR followed her from the last days of summer break for the first weeks of school, chronicling all the mental health struggles that school stress is causing. She recorded audio diaries and shared them with CPR, accounts of what her day-to-day is like. We’re only using her first name and we aren’t naming her school to protect her privacy.Amelia didn’t always feel this way about school. She didn’t used to take it as seriously - she worked hard for those Bs and Cs and felt pretty good about that.
There's this like competition and it breeds, “I need to be first. I need to be the one that gets accepted to all the Ivys. I need to be the one that has all these extra-curriculars, that plays a sport, that’s involved in something volunteering.” You have a good SAT score, you’re involved in all the APs.
It gets to a point where this is not learning anymore. This is a toxic academic environment where nobody can flourish. And if you are flourishing, I worry about you. And I worry about myself. I worry about the people in my community. Because you need to meet high expectations with high supports. She began having what she and one of her friends call “spiral moments.” “When any event happens that makes us feel sad, upset, or brushes up against us the wrong way, we start thinking more and more about it and we just are on a downward spiral until, for me, I start crying,” she says. Amelia’s so stressed in some classes, she thinks that she only absorbs about 60 percent of her classroom work. She feels like she’s often in a fight or flight mode.
. Call 1-844-493-8255 or text “TALK” to 38255 to speak with a trained counselor or professional. Counselors are also available at walk-in locations or online to chat between 4 p.m. and 12 a.m.Amelia studies for final exams at Stella's Gourmet Coffee and Such in Platt Park. Nov. 20, 2019. Day two we’re already talking about retaking the SAT and the ACT and I have to register by the end of the day.
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