Anxiety and How it Impacts Students by Avaya Sterrett

Anxiety and the way it affects people is astonishing. It is one of the most prevalent mental health issues and it’s so hard for some people to overcome or even face. And it does affect a lot of academic performance, resulting in them failing or falling behind.

A small part in the brain, about the size of a marble, called the amygdala, is responsible for absolutely every fear and amount of anxiety that you feel in your body. This feeling is so deep that it overpowers your consciousness. Sometimes, even the smallest amount of social interaction can explode your emotions and turn it into intense anxiety, causing you to go into flight or fight mode in your brain. These interactions can drain you so much you are just exhausted and shut down.

We all feel it at some point and just wanna crawl into a hole. It’s normal. I’ve gotten a couple of quotes or options forms kids in class and one of them says, “this can get so hard and bad they dont even wanna raise a hand or stand up until the class even ends.” This also can make you hold and recollect these memories, good or bad. Some memories will spark your anxiety so much again when you try and rethink them. And I think that’s why a lot of people struggle with school and expressly social interactions. I’ve struggled with school.

The persistent worry of school and what you need to do is also leading to difficulty concentrating and making it so much easier for kids to over-perfect and procrastinate things so much harder for himself and to overthink. Another thing a lot of kids experience is testing anxiety that can make them have intense fear impacting their ability to recall information and demonstrate their already known information, making them underperform.

This disorder can also interfere with attendance and participation in school-related activities, or they have a feeling to avoid facing certain situations or make them feel super self-conscious in classes in school and it holds a lot of us back. Being able to recognize and addressing anxiety disorders in a school setting is essential for supporting us students and making us feel like we want to be here to get things done not just to think about every day before we come to school possible fears or over stress ourselves.

So by opening people’s eyes to talking about these disorders more, I think I will help a lot of people that struggle with it to want to reach out or even recognize that this disorder does affect them and to see that there are so many ways to fix this and face this and learning not to let it affect you in certain ways and being able to gain enough power to make yourself. Tons of kids struggling with concentrations and even sometimes being isolated. Recognizing the signs and providing them with support can help so many of them in the future and help them thrive even more in their daily life