WHO says the stress and anxiety disorders experienced only among teenagers and adults only. According to a poll in the UK, the 10-year-old young girl was also prone to stress and anxiety. This phenomenon occurs because they have to survive and adapt to social development is so fast and dynamic in modern times.
From the poll, revealed an important fact that the stress at an early age can triggered by growing materialism, especially in Western countries. The desire and drive to have new items like clothes, iPods, or the latest model mobile phones cause one in five girls in the UK feel very sad and angry.
Two out of five girls aged 10 to 15 years in a poll stating really hate yourself after seeing the pictures of film stars, models and famous singer who in the eyes they look perfect and glamorous.
Dr Andrew McCulloch, the Mental Health Foundation, who work directly in this study stated that the blame of this phenomenon is the adults that fosters materialism and sexuality prematurely.
“The young girls and young women are forced to grow up in an environment of rapid social nature, but not developed by us as adults. It definitely can cause deterioration of their emotions. We have a responsibility to fix it, “said McCulloch.
Cases such as bullying, exam stress at school and family problems also made this problem becomes increasingly complicated for most of 400 girls who made the object of this research.
Panic attacks
Poll results also showed that over half of respondents knew that there were their friends who suffered from depression, and two of the five girls to know if there are friends who like to hurt yourself.
One in three respondents also have a friend who had eating disorders, and two of the five children to know that there are friends who experience panic attacks or feelings of terror that came to a sudden attack without warning ..
Liz Burnley, of Girlguiding UK who also was behind the study, said “The young girl facing a new generation of pressures that led to their age often suffer from stress, anxiety and unhappiness.
“All of us who care about a teenage girl has a role to play in helping them find a way to get through these conflicting demands. This is intended to build self-confidence they need, “he said.