anxiety Archives - Youth Are Awesome https://youthareawesome.com/tag/anxiety/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:49:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Seize The Moment! How To Conquer Performance Anxiety https://youthareawesome.com/seize-the-moment-how-to-conquer-performance-anxiety/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seize-the-moment-how-to-conquer-performance-anxiety https://youthareawesome.com/seize-the-moment-how-to-conquer-performance-anxiety/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:49:04 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=117369 Whether is a piano recital, dance competition, or big presentation, performance anxiety makes itself known in every field, whether its sports or music. Performance anxiety can get so severe that it can impact your everyday life and mental health, hindering your ability to do your best. There’s nothing worse than working hard just to get […]

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]]> https://youthareawesome.com/seize-the-moment-how-to-conquer-performance-anxiety/feed/ 0 How to Prepare for the Digital SAT 2025 https://youthareawesome.com/how-to-prepare-for-the-digital-sat-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-prepare-for-the-digital-sat-2025 Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:12:39 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=117136 The SAT:  On June 7, 2025, thousands of students across the world signed up to take the SAT exam. This exam is well known all across the world, as it is one of the key components that are required for admission into many US universities.  What’s on the SAT? So basically, the exam consists of […]

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]]> Imposter Syndrome: You’re Not a Fraud, You’re Just Anxious https://youthareawesome.com/imposter-syndrome-youre-not-a-fraud-youre-just-anxious/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imposter-syndrome-youre-not-a-fraud-youre-just-anxious Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:18:38 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=116712 So you’ve just made the soccer team, won an award, or got accepted into a selective program. Everyone is praising you for your success, but deep down you feel like a fraud. You tell yourself it wasn’t really your achievement, it was just luck. Now… you are stuck worrying that someday, everyone else will find […]

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]]> What Do Dreams About Being Chased Really Mean? https://youthareawesome.com/what-do-dreams-about-being-chased-really-mean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-do-dreams-about-being-chased-really-mean Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:13:53 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=115575 Have you ever had that dream where you’re running away from something or someone, and no matter how fast you go, you can’t escape? Being chased is one of the most common and terrifying dreams, often leaving people awake with hearts racing. But what exactly do dreams about being chased signify? Are they a reflection […]

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]]> PAWS for Thought: Science Behind the Mental Health Benefits of Pet Ownership https://youthareawesome.com/paws-for-thought-science-behind-the-mental-health-benefits-of-pet-ownership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paws-for-thought-science-behind-the-mental-health-benefits-of-pet-ownership Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:56:23 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=111392 As a dog owner, I am very grateful for the unconditional love that my dog provides me and that, sometimes, it emotionally helps me by decreasing my stress and sadness. However, is it scientifically supported that pets offer mental health benefits? In the past decade, NIH partnered with Mars Corporation’s WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, […]

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]]> The Silent Sufferers https://youthareawesome.com/the-silent-sufferers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-silent-sufferers Tue, 01 Nov 2016 23:30:52 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=83541 Fact: one-in-four people will be affected by a mental illness throughout their lifetime. It is actually one of the leading causes of disability in North America. The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite all the recent talk going around about spreading […]

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]]> Mental Illnesses: A Crash Course https://youthareawesome.com/mental-illnesses-crash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mental-illnesses-crash https://youthareawesome.com/mental-illnesses-crash/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:00:49 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=80007 How many times have you or someone else you know claimed to be “so OCD” for meticulously colour coding their school supplies? Or insisting that their friend is “being bipolar today” for saying hello to them in the morning but not responding to their text later that afternoon? Or having a “panic attack” when they […]

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]]> https://youthareawesome.com/mental-illnesses-crash/feed/ 2 What are YOU more than? https://youthareawesome.com/than/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=than Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:21:31 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=75356 To end off the year, Bishop Carroll‘s Mental Wellness committee did a project on labels. We asked various people to finish the sentence “There’s more to me than…”. From some people we received one word answers, and from others we were able to film them telling us what’s truly on their mind. It’s amazing how insightful teenagers and […]

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]]> Vanessa’s Story: life, anxiety, depression, relationships & everything in between https://youthareawesome.com/vanessas-story-life-anxiety-depression-relationships/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vanessas-story-life-anxiety-depression-relationships Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:06:45 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=72670     “Honestly, I’m ok, I’m happy with being the reason why someone is changing their life. Like if I can get people off of drugs, like if I can inspire them, that’s good for me; that’s what I want. I’ve always wanted to motivate people and help those who are going through the life […]

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]]> WHOLE Churchill: You Are Not Alone https://youthareawesome.com/churchill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=churchill Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:56:42 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=72494   On a sunny Tuesday morning, four enthusiastic students sat down for an interview about WHOLE Churchill. WHOLE Churchill is a community created by Haroon M., Megan C., Rahul A., and Sidharth S., to promote awareness of mental health for all youth, starting with the students of Sir Winston Churchill High School. Shruti: What is […]

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]]> Anxiety Attacks: please don’t blame yourself https://youthareawesome.com/anxiety-attacks-blame/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anxiety-attacks-blame Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:51:50 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=69978 Having an anxiety attack is bad enough. Feeling like you’re weak because of it or being told that you need to try better to “push through it” does not make the situation easier. At all. We all get anxious sometimes, and those of us who are teenagers seem to be extra skilled at having anxiety. Tests, relationships, […]

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]]> Youth of YYC: Hawley, 18 https://youthareawesome.com/youth-yyc-hawley-18/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=youth-yyc-hawley-18 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:18:15 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=69421 “I deal with clinical anxiety, so I have a fear of just being on stage. If there’s not a direct path for me to get out of, I start panicking on stage, but it’s slowly getting better. Just that when I perform though, the notes just come to me.” – Hawley, 18

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]]> 2 Foods that help release stress https://youthareawesome.com/2-food-relese-stress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2-food-relese-stress Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:31:06 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=43896 Got stressed out coz you worked day or just got too tired and want a break ? Here are two foods that could help you with it! 1. Bananas We all know mum always tells us to eat fruit – “EAT FRUIT!!!!! IT’S GOOD FOR YOU” (That’s mum) 🙂 So, why bananas? Sweet bananas can release stress in stomach, and because […]

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]]> Getting Over Test Anxiety https://youthareawesome.com/test-anxiety/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=test-anxiety Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:49:51 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=39056 We’ve all been there- that moment before a test when we claw our heads and desperately search our minds for any trace of the knowledge we so efficiently crammed in the night before. Of course, at the same time we also wonder why, oh why, did our brains have to betray us at the moment […]

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