Students face their stress in their own ways.
“I am easily stressed out because I have to constantly be in control,” Peyton Owen, junior, said. “The root of all my stress is school because I want to do well on my AP tests.”
Another student said something very similar.
“I am an easily stress out person because everyone expects so much and the people that don’t care are annoying,” Devon Merricks, junior, said. “The expectation to do better stresses me out.”
Students combat their stress differently.
“My boyfriend stresses me out, so I combat stress by hitting him,” Abigail Custer, junior, said.
“I just deal with my stress, I don’t fight it,” Merricks said.
A student said something similar.
“I don’t deal with my stress because I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it,” Owen said.
Stress affects the everyday lives of students.
“When I’m stressed out, it puts me in a bad mood and that puts the people around me in a bad mood as well,” Custer said.
“My stress makes me tired because I’m not getting enough sleep, which then makes me less focused on schoolwork, but that is the cause of my stress,” Owen said. “It’s a never ending cycle.”
