These feelings can be exaggerated when an adolescent is thinking about and testing values and priorities about competition, grades, friendships and perhaps discrimination or poverty. Adolescents is often a period of complicated and demanding conflicts.
Teens undergo shake up physically, psychologically, emotionally, and socially.
They are vulnerable to being overwhelmed by the many changes and pressures brought to bear during this critical time. There is some indication that adolescents experience more loneliness than other age groups. They are neither children, nor adults. The young person is confronted with developmental changes in relationships with others. There is a need for adjustment to losses or breaking off of critical attachments and the surfacing of new needs and desires for relations with others.