nowadays have the same diety level as psychiatric patients in the one nine hundred fifty s nearly one in three adolescents will meet criteria for an anxiety disorder by the age of eighteen so about thirty three percent of teenagers will be diagnosed in a cheat treatment for their anxiety disorder only about ten percent will be treated correctly teenagers do not adjust their anxiety and keep it to themselves which is why their stats the stats are so low they need to be able to talk about it and ask for help according to how ryan keeping things for themselves is causing them to have mornings id and causing to depression which can also lead to them having a potential substance abuse and even a physical illness teenagers attend school for one hundred eighty days out  and have to get up every day worrying about something school causes different levels of it of anxiety for every teenager and everyone has a way of deciding on how that on how they want to deal with it according to a land pick nurses encounter is cited increased amounts of anxiety students are constantly getting assigned homework and teachers assigning test and even having separate as in pop quizzes some students are not very good at taking tests and having to take one can cause them to have testings i e some may not even be able to finish the test teachers also assign public speaking assignments which can be nerve wracking for many people parents add pressure by telling their charge or not grades matter and adding emphasis on performing well in crisis students then start worrying about their g and wondering if they are making the qualifications to attend college while management stated that a student's g p a is a greater predictor of a college success than their scores on a few teasin s a t s scores encourage their students to take the s a t s and fuse because they help colleges know whether or not students are qualified to attend college according to c n n forty two percent of one point seven million students who took the s a t s and two thousand and fifteen wanted to were determined to be college ready it showed that they did not need any remedial attention in english language arts or math when they get to college that's less than half a percent that means that forty eight percent of s a t s a c t test takers are not ready to attend college students are expected to get a certain number on the test and knowing what is needed to get on the test beforehand can highs even more stress according to college raptor some ideas to help students decrease their anxiety for f a t n a c t included knowing what to expect from the test studying and preparing beforehand sleeping while the night before eating a good practice and staying positive the simple task can help decrease students exactly and make them feel more ready for their test anxiety is different for everyone not experiences keeping your anxiety and knowing how to deal with it can cause even more problems talk to someone about it no matter if it's your mom or dad a sibling friend a school counselor a teacher you trust or going to a real therapist i like there should be a cost dedicated to coping with anxiety and having students who do not struggle with it learn about it so they can understand what they're cost me to go and there are many students struggle with it one way or another and no one is very good at dealing with it there should be a cost offered that students may  learn take to learn of our environment how to cope with it if you know anyone who has eliminated themselves from social events being different emotionally not getting enough sleep and doing poorly in school school get them to talk to someone about how they are fair and they deserve to i was just asking like when students come down to visit you wake what is the main reason i would say students come down a lot for a lot of different reasons is i think it's very individual  o you agree yeah i would say to some students will come down for either college or career planning some students will come down for social or emotional issues such as anxiety or stress related some students come down just to brainstorm and plan out their future some students will come down for academics also or if they're looking for kind of guidance and what they're doing in their class you know that we can help them brainstorm and work through you know could you talk to your teacher could you you considered getting tutoring to those are other things that they would come down for ok and do you think that it's helpful for them to come down and talk about what they're feeling a feeling inside and stuff i personally think that it's important for them to talk with another person about it even if it's not just one of their counselors even if it's their teachers or their parents because then they're bouncing off ideas of another person or someone it suggest never thought of before that they could try so that is letting them know the resources that are available and it's helping them brainstorm what they need to do in their next steps so i think that it's very important for you to talk to somebody about what is going on now you could because you might not know what resources are available for you do you think some students should go to a more like professional one it's really bad so i think i think when you're thinking of anxiety and in general anxiety is a natural reaction to it's knees to undetermined outcome so in school there's just going to be more scenarios like that whether it's a presentation as you mentioned in your opening or a test or a college application all of those have an outcome that the student doesn't know what is going to occur and so that creates anxiety and so that is a natural reaction everybody's going to have a little bit of anxiety every day it's when the students on he gets to a point where it is impacting their natural life  cycles so the ability to get up the ability to eat the ability to go to school the ability to interact with their peers or adults when it is impacting those things then yes students need to seek professional help i think a class maybe you as students come into high school like a freshman seminar when students go to college they most a lot of colleges will have a freshman seminar class and really the point of the class is to highlight as ms  resources that a student has available to them whether you know a college campus whether it's student health or student counseling tutoring resources where you go to your money for your housing or your food service one high school i think you could have something very similar studies strategies where they can go for tutoring when teachers are available for extra help whether it be before school after school or during the school day and so a class like that would give the student tools to help manage their i nees during the school day and so i think a class like that would be helpful in giving that like i said the giving the students those problem solving tool kit to be able to manage high school more effectively i agree i think freshman seminar would be a good idea too because you know that's where you can touch upon how important self care is for students so you know if you're doing a lot of sports and you have a lot of homework and your course load heavy you need that time for yourself so that you can be stressed and be brief and do something that you enjoy and so i think it's important to touch upon self care and then you know touching upon the coping skills and study strategies  resources that are out there so i think that that can be beneficial for kids i think you said lake a lot of people go through in zion and that was it did you go through when you were in high school or college or high school i think i have a little bit of anxiety even today so i think you know what you know as they said anxiety is is a natural reaction to like i said an undetermined outcome so anxiety in itself is not bad i think that especially students whether k through twelve or in college you know as as you are testing your educational limits and you're learning and you're learning about yourself and how you respond to different types of educational situations as you grow as a student it's not always going to be comfortable it's not always going to be happy but that's not necessarily a bad thing as you learn you stumble you get up you learn again you trot you problem solve and somewhere in there that is anxiety and so yeah i think if you are continuing to learn anything new in life you will experienc it's not necessarily bad it's just a an emotional reaction to something that you're experiencing and i don't agree i experience anxiety the same as anyone else would but i think it's important to learn your own coping skills and figure out what works best for you because what works best for me might not work best for mr saddam so if you like to sit and listen to her fifteen minutes because that helps you bring you that knots important that's what you need to do and that's your coping skill as it might are for some hours so i think it's just important to look through what coping skills are what difference go like ideas for coping skills and then just test them in trial and errol and test them out and see how they work and probably the big difference today is that i think as a culture we've become stress or anxiety adverse events so what i mean by that is that when we see somebody experiencing it whether it's one of my students or whether it's your friend or your brother or sister or your parent it seems as though the first response is that i have to try to remove that anxiety from you until not let you experience a side and so what happens is that if i just remove that anxiety for you well you're going to experience it tomorrow and i haven't given you i haven't taught you any skill to be able to deal with that in the future and so i think some of that anxiety sort of perpetuating itself is because we're not teaching as much people how to deal with things i do are just trying to remove it from their life but you will experience exactly in stress for your entire life and so the sooner as ms riddle said you come up with coping strategies the better you'll be able to manage that in the lest impactful that will have on your did day to day functions we would take a short break and we'll be back talking about  i would say a i think if you're experiencing anxiety i don't know that you're over looking at i think that the year you know that's a very visceral response to a stressful situation but i think perhaps where the discussion point or sometimes the misunderstanding is that it's hard to differentiate between anxiety that is becoming more of a situation where you need professional help verse is sort of a routine anxiety something like we had talked about before the break rings eyes a natural sort of emotional reaction to a stressful situation and so i think that it's hard for maybe our parents or people that care about us to think that our child or our son or daughter are getting to a point where they need professional care and so it's more wanting to admit that kind of that level of anxiety i think too that it would never be over locked it's a possibility that students have developed their own coping skills so when that anxiety  then they have already worked through it on their own inner cities so i think that it's a fact of being overlooked i just think it's a fact if you know their students are dealing with it on their own which is ok with their coping skills or it's to the point where like mr said all said they would need perfect help and that's when they reach out and sometimes that could be i think there can be sort of rectified through conversation or communication because i mean so often i think you would you know you go to somebody and you're starting to express feeling anxious or feeling stressed about something and how many times is the response back to just deal with it or that's just life you have to come to grips and so there i think is just a generational gap where maybe our parents or some adults have developed they've gone through the process of experiencing anxiety and they have come up with a system that has worked for that but they don't know how to communicate those types of tools for you and so that is where it is good for the student to go to their concert teacher who maybe has some more experience teaching those types of tools you guys deal with it all the time like the s a t s getting kids ready for that and to how the students how do students they deal with like taking that test and getting a good grade i think to deal with it in different ways i mean coming from a person who had testing diet icicle you just kind of it's something you have to work through and you know that if college is your post secondary plan that that is a test you're going to have to take but then you also have to think about and talk through the other things that the colleges will look at so they're to look at your resume they're going to look at your personal essays they're going to look at your letters of recommendation so if you take the s a t s or the a c t and you don't have the best score that's ok because you have other things that you can that they can reflect upon to see who you are as a person so it's not just based off of that test and i think it's important that when students are feeling that anxiety around that that they come and talk to their teacher or their counselor or their parents because then you can talk that through with them and say hey remember the that's the only thing that's not the only thing they're going to look at there's other aspects of their application process that they're going to check out and i think even within the test itself some of that test things can be ale alleviated through good preparation so you know very in a very similar way classroom grades i think most students want to have the stress about having the air stress about getting a certain score on the ac t v or a safety but they're so focused in on that and product and not the process to go through in order to be prepared either for class or the test so it's you know teaching the student to pay your goal is to get an a your goal is to get a certain score on that i say t and then the steps are the study process to prepare for the test that's going back to that process itself ultimately it will alleviate that some of that anxiety why do you well i think that that that is the sort of flashy part of a student's academic career and so they feel as though if i have a certain g than that well that's the key to their future but in actuality it is all the other sort of components it's how well they prepare for class or the test to get that air that be it is their community service and what they bring to the college so i think that it's teaching the students how to think about college as colleges so colleges are looking for what are you as a student going to bring to that college campus to make that college campus better and so is it going to be your volunteerism or is it going to be your activities it's going to be your theater or your experiences it isn't just your g i think over time students become very focused in on that end and product of just the g p and so i think too when students are looking into their post secondary options and they decide that college is their plan and that's what they want to do when you go into the admissions page and you click on what's required the first two or three things that you see on that list is call is yours high school transcripts and your essay t c t scores so those are the first two things on the list in the automatically think about when you think college and applying you think g p a that's the first thing they're going to see and my as a teen a sixty's course that's the first thing they're going to see so then when you you kind of stop thinking about all the other things that go into play because those are the only two things that you're focused on because that's the first two things on the list of the admissions process so i think that has a lot to play with a lot of play into this is well it's made me a politician admissions offices would you know change up that list a little it wouldn't put so much of a pressure on the g p a in the scores do you feel like students come down to talk to you about that stuff like the most out of everything i think it's over year by year i think that it's we tried to teach the students throughout their high school all the different parts that they need to consider and plan for for college i think when students are seniors i think they do come in a lot to talk about that process and where their g p a is and whether they can still improve it or their s a t s scores and they need to bring up their scores or not bring up their scores so i think high school students tend to be sort of a grade level focused your freshmen and sophomores might be thinking about is could look different from what your juniors and seniors and thinking about it all depends on where they are in their life plan and what they need the rest of the time to get there do you feel like students feel better when they leave your office and they have a better understanding of why i mean i hope so over the long we talk they feel better and we can help kind of ease bad or at least help them work through it  dude in is probably having difficulty breathing or hyperventilating and they're having a hard time for putting all the thoughts together so in that moment it is helping the students settle to so that you can get to a point where you have a discussion of what led to the student to that emotional state and then typically then it is a process sometimes it is a media sort of flash in the pan and something very drastic happened and student  response sometimes it is an ongoing issue with a situation which they're having a hard time problem solving through i would agree with that do you do play you're feeling i think you should reach out for help because we're all we can only handle so much we all are human we have our limits and you want to bottle all of that then then explode on the wrong person or just explode on something and so i think it is very important that if you're feeling something or you just need to talk it out with somebody you find that person that you trust and feel that you have a reporter with and talk it out with them into make it effective and sort of meaningful to everyone you know communication is a big part of that so i may go to a colleague and say you know what i just need to vent i don't need any advice i have a pretty good handle on what way i would need to go but i need to vent out this emotion because i'm really frustrated and so sort of go through that or you know you go to a colleague and say ok i think i have a handle of this this is what i'm thinking this is where i'm stuck and so you know even within the faculty you know here at high school we all were always bouncing ideas off each child each other trying to problem solve are always going to see the same situation from a different perspective which is helpful much like a student looking for a new perspective on their issue overall how do you feel like things i do not believe here at the high school are they tend i think they're pretty high i think that our community is such  that they demand a high level of success the end so you know aspirations are high for students or students to go to you know good colleges or a certain level of colleges  successful careers or to be successful at each level and he would stiff a cult that it is managing that expectation and against your day to day life and so you know the the more active you are the more active a student you are so participating and talking out and problem solving and reaching out to your peers and reaching out to your teachers and the faculty reaching out to each other the healthier environment will have in dealing with that stress if we keep our stress to ourselves that we try to stay in our silo and not get outside feedback then then the environment becomes unhealthy because we're not helping each other and the stress will just build overwhelming level is there anything else you want to do teenagers dealing with it and how and how they should deal with it i just think it's very important for them to you know figure out what a coping skill is and what different coping skills they can use so they can start testing out these coping skills and finding what works best for them because even as they get older those coping cells are going to follow them and it's going to help them work through what they're feeling as they get older into adulthood so i think it's just important for them to look for those resources and utilize them because that's why they're