Teen Anxiety
Virginia Addis
About Anxiety
Many teens and children have anxiety. Everyone gets anxiety every once and a while, weather it be watching a scary movie or a feat of spiders. Anxiety disorder is different. Someone with anxiety disorder is always scared or have a fear about what will happen to them or what could go bad.
Statistics
- The amount of teens with an anxiety disorder has increased over the years
- Anxiety affects 1/8 children and teens
- Relationships between family members can affect a teen with anxiety
- 80% of teens with a diagnosable anxiety disorder don't get treatment
- 1 in every 12 teens feel self harm
- A person with anxiety might also suffer from depression
- 1/4 of teens will deal with anxiety disorder sometime during their lives
- 1/5 teens who have an anxiety disorder get treatment
- Anxiety can negatively affect a teens education
Cites
- http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/children
- https://www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com/featured/teenagers-are-feeling-more-anxious-than-ever/
- https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-anxiety
- http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/increased-levels-anxiety-and-depression-teenage-experience-changes-over-time