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Managing Anxiety as a Teenager: Interview with Devan Melwani

teenage anxiety

August 30, 2021

I’m Kavita
A Jungian Business and Success coach, a highly-sensitive woman and an empath. A mother of two beautiful boys, and a serial entrepreneur.
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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!

 

Find me at:

www.alignedandsoulful.com

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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