Issues with Teachers and Friends
- Difficult to talk to teachers when getting bad grades
- Uncomfortable because teachers are older
- Trying to fit in
- Friend groups falling apart
- Not close enough / Not equally valued
- Two-Face / "Nice in school, mean outside"
- Changing yourself for others
- Invalidation
- Social Media
- People will tell (judged)
- Personal issues
- Being seen as overdramatic
Need for Adult Validation
- Your just a kid, don't worry they get you
- You just don't understand
- Differing relationships
- Talks to other adults first for reassurance
- Talk to people with similar situation
- Find people who make you feel heard
- Might be the adult with the problem
- "Adults are always right"
- Can't voice feelings
- Anxiety about grades
- Why do you need that?
- Not a big deal
- Fear to speak out with adults
- Sports performance
Fears of the Future
- Fear of being judged
- Money issues
- People won’t relate
- Feeling alone ("unreasonable")
- Thinking too far ahead
- Not validated
- "Don’t get your hopes up"
- Thinking that you're "off track"
- Worrying that what you want to do isn’t stable
- "Not good enough" to achieve dreams
- Being controlled / Not having support from authority/caregivers
- Not getting into a good college
- Pressured to have plans but unsure
- Parents not agreeing with your interests
Suicide/Mental Health
- Stigmatized
- "You don’t seem suicidal"
- "Talk to somebody else"
- Judgment
- Hard to voice feelings
- Generally uncomfortable
- Belittled
- Being told to "get better"
- Immediately told to get help
- Social Media is the issue
- People try to one-up
- Being told you're dramatic
- Don’t want to seem weak around parents/adults
- Not taken seriously
- Doing it for attention
- Not confidential
- "You don’t really think that"
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