You Think You’re Stressed! Let’s talk about teens, stress, and anxiety AG.

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You Think You’re Stressed ! Let’s talk about teens, stress, and anxiety AG

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You Think You’re Stressed! Let’s talk about teens, stress, and anxiety

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What Stresses Your Teen Out?What Stresses Your Teen Out?

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Negative ways teens deal with Negative ways teens deal with stressstress

• Self-medicating • Using drugs or alcohol• Self-injury • Avoidance• Procrastination• Over preforming

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Stress is Real and it’s Here to StayStress is Real and it’s Here to Stay

• Stress comes from a primitive part of our brain that tells us to be afraid. So, some fears are worthy and some are not.

• Stress looks forward and backwards to the what if's and I should have's.

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Types of StressTypes of Stress• There are two types of stress:

– Eustress (good, motivating)– Distress (bad, hard to cope with)

• It is important to identify causes of stress and manage them with either changes of behavior or attitude.

How do you know when your teen is stressed?

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The Science of StressThe Science of Stress

Stress is regulated by the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal gland.

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What About Anxiety?What About Anxiety?Anxiety is a normal part of childhood, and every child

goes through phases. A phase is temporary and usually harmless.

Warning signs:•Panic attacks•Avoidance of places or situations•Obsessions or compulsions•Re-experiencing of traumatic events and avoidance of stimuli•Persistent and excessive anxiety and worry

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Other Mood DisordersOther Mood Disorders• Major depression• Cyclothymia• Dysthymia• Bipolar I• Bipolar II

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Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms • Disinterest in favorite

extracurricular activities • Problems at school and losing

interest in school • Substance abuse, including

alcohol and drug (illegal and legal drugs) use

• Behavioral problems • Withdrawing from family and

friends • Sleep changes • Changes in eating habits • Begins to neglect hygiene and

other matters of personal appearance

• Emotional distress brings on physical complaints (aches, fatigues, migraines)

• Hard time concentrating and paying attention

• Declining grades in school • Loss of interest in schoolwork • Risk taking behaviors • Complains more frequently of

boredom • Does not respond as before to

praise• Changing friend groups• Isolating from friends and family

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How To DealHow To Deal• Validation

– I hear you saying you feel really sad.– That sounds very painful.

• Ask open-ended questions– Have you ever felt really depressed?– How long have you felt that way?– Has this happened before? How long did it last?

• Be in contact with your child’s therapist and psychiatrist• Get therapy for yourself

– Sending only the kid gives them the message: “I am broken, and they want this therapist to fix me.”

– It is hard to watch your kids struggle! SS

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Stress Management ToolsStress Management Tools• Sleep• Eat right• Avoid caffeine• Exercise• Music• Relaxation techniques• Prayer/spirituality• Set priorities

• Study smarter, not harder

• Planning/organization• Compartmentalizing

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Coping With StressCoping With Stress1. Identify causes

– What stresses you or your children?

2. Change what you can – Attitude…listen to negative messages, listen carefully

to your child's negative messages– Gratitude…count your blessings, but recognize some

things are just simply hard

3. Learn to let go 4. Teach your children these lessons as you go by talking to them about your process

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Jesus' instructions from the Sermon on MountMt 6:25:

‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than

clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds

them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how

they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if

God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more

clothe you—you of little faith?

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The Message?The Message?“Don’t worry”… That’s easy for him to say!

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