Stress Among Youth: Causes and its Management in Recent Times

Youth are the leaders for the next generation who govern the country and helps in the nation?s economic development. However, an academic, social pressure and pressure of getting a good job with good salary etc. factors affect their performance and life. These different kind of mental pressures can leads to stress among the young people. Stress is an unavoidable reality of life which can be good where it can trigger our fight-or-flight mechanism to help in case of emergencies but too much stress can harm our health and body. Different individual will have different kind of response to the stress; therefore, it is important to learn what stresses us out and how to cope with it. Among all types of stress faced by youth, academic stress is one of the reasons why some students fall into deeper problems such as depression and anxiety. They obtain stress from overworking, over thinking, over exaggerating any situation and by working too hard or keeping up too long to do something, this lead to an awful effect on their lives. There are various components like not having enough sleep, troubles in education and job stress, and pains occur due to all these situations, are very bad to their body. Thus, this paper aims to discuss the various kind of stress among youth, level of stress, effect of stress, causes of stress and remedies to cure the stress at different stages.