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                     How to Deal With Teenagers Having


                                                     Anxiety?


                                                   By Kaveri Chandra



                                                                 excessive    worry  about  physical
                                                                 symptoms  like  a  small  wound  might
                                                                 become  infected,  that  a  headache
                                                                 might  mean  a  tumor.  Feelings  like
                                                                 worry,  joy,  or  dread  as  if  something
                                                                 bad is going to happen and a feeling
                                                                 making you separate to your physical
                                                                 self  or  surroundings.  The  release  of
                                                                 certain      neurotransmitters      like
                                                                 oxytocin,  dopamine,  and  endorphins
                                                                 causes different physical changes in us
                                                                 like  racing  heart,  butterflies  in  the
                                                                 stomach or feeling dizzy or light-


                    Anxiety  is  a  mental  health  disorder
                    characterized by feelings of worry or        Headed and the major problem faced
                                                                 by  teenagers  is  difficulty  in  sleeping-
                    fright. Anxiety is something that every
                                                                 either trouble falling asleep, or waking
                    teenager  deal  with.  Anxiety  can  feel
                                                                 up and not being able to go back to
                    like an obstructive mind hog which at
                    the  end  will  leave  you  spending  way    sleep.  There  are  various  ways  by
                    too  much  time  on  squeezing,              which  we  can  deal  with  anxiety  and
                    staggering,  and  submerging  deep  in       has been proven by tons of very high-
                                                                 brow research to be very powerful in
                    your  ocean  of  thoughts.  First,  there
                                                                 reducing anxiety.  The first  thing that
                    are  some  things  that  we  need  to
                    understand about  teens with anxiety-        we should do is exercise. The effects
                    like  anxiety  has  nothing  to  do  with    of  exercise  on  mental  health  are
                                                                 proven  and  powerful.  Some  neurons
                    strength,  personality,  or  courage.
                                                                 are  born  with  the  character  of
                    Second,  anxiety  is  something  that
                                                                 puppies-  very  excitable  and  quick  to
                    everyone  has  experienced  at  some
                    time  in  their  lives-exams,  job           fire  up.  When  too  many  of  these
                    interviews,  performances.  Sometimes        excitable  neurons  get  too  energetic,
                    it  can  happen  for  no  reason  in  the    anxiety can happen. To stop the brain
                                                                 cells  from  getting  over-excited  and
                    least.  Negative  thoughts  invade  our
                                                                 causing  chaos,  the  brain  has  a
                    mind-what-ifs,  thoughts  about  being
                                                                 neurochemical,  GABA.  When  the
                    judged    or    embarrassed,      small
                    thoughts  that  become  big  worries  or     levels of GABA in the brain are low,





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