In this episode, I interview Devan Melwani on how to manage Anxiety as a teenager. Devan discusses how he realized he has anxiety and how he has learned to handle it as a junior in high school.
He is a highly sensitive person and learned more about what that meant during the lockdown and learning from home. He recently did some research and wrote a blog that goes deeper into teenage anxiety and discusses his journey over the last year and a half.
What I’m sharing with you in this episode:
- Introducing Devan
- Feeling like a highly sensitive person
- Absorbing stress & retaining until later
- Extroverts and being highly sensitive
- Not getting his needs met while having to be isolated
- Taking his stress & anxiety out on his family
- Saying things he doesn’t mean
- Labeling his anxiety
- Felt like he was less of a person when he found out that he has anxiety
- Your life isn’t worse just because you have anxiety
- Learning what your outlets are
- Socialization & exercise are Devans outlets
- Devan wrote a blog
- Stress is not all bad
- Covid impact on teens
- Schooling changes during Covid
- Mixing of home & school
- Lack of motivation from being in their room
- Increased stress increases your anxiety
- Social justice movement
- Avoiding news because they focus so much on negatives
- The pressure put on teenagers
- Talking with your teenagers
- Stress from school
- Meditations for anxious people
- Social media
- Social media can cause loneliness & anxiety
- Jealousy & anxiety caused by social media
- Always, always, always. Talk with your teens!
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Resource mentioned in the podcast:
Find Devan’s Blog at:
Devan’s blog “A common problem: Anxiety and Stress”
Meditations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpok4MKVLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-6f5wQXSu8
https://www.mentalhealthishealth.us/
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