The Emotions Teenagers Go Through & What To Do About Them.

As the parent or guardian of a teenager – or perhaps more than one teenager – you are going to find it to be particularly important to know how to manage their emotions. This is one of the most emotional times in a person’s life, and you might be able to remember how this was true for yourself. Sometimes just remembering that can help you to sympathize with your teenager over how they are feeling, but beyond that you are probably going to want to know how to manage and deal with a teenager with all the things they are feeling.

In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the things you can do to help your teenagers with their emotions. Much of this might be common sense, but there will probably also be one or two things that are going to be less so, and so it’s useful to know about this as best as you can. Let’s take a look at what can really be involved in dealing with an emotional teenager.

Anger

This is one of the most common emotions you will see teenagers expressing, and it’s a major one that you are going to find that they want to try and get out there. It’s of course one of the most obvious ones, which is part of what makes it so important to know how to deal with. And you will find that your teenagers are generally going to be quite angry throughout their teens, as most of us are at that stage in life.

In terms of how to deal with it, it’s important that you try not to let it make you too angry. If that happens, it can suddenly make the home life so much more difficult to deal with, and you will find that you might really struggle to keep yourself calm as well. It is definitely harder to calm down an angry teenager if you yourself are very angry, so this is something that you should certainly make sure you are thinking about.

And it can help you personally to just remember what is really happening here. This helps to make it less personal, which will probably enable you to deal with it much more effectively. Anger in an adolescent is quite simply just their brain developing and changing rapidly, and the result is this huge swirl of emotions including anger. If you can remember that, it’s probably going to help you to deal with it a great deal.

All in all, anger can be difficult, but it is just another emotion, and one that you should be able to deal with when it comes to your teenager as long as you keep your head.

Depression

Another of the really difficult things that teenagers go through is depression. This is a very common thing that you are going to probably see in at least one of your teens, if not all of them. While on the surface this might not be as explosive as something like anger, it is still very important to know how to deal with it. In the very worst circumstances, depression can obviously be extremely serious, so it’s something that you are definitely going to want to think about all in all. And you should find that you are going to have to deal with it at some point or another anyway, so it’s vital that you know what to do.

With depression, no matter what age you are, there is a feeling of hopelessness and general loss, and a kind of despair tinged with sadness. At other times, it can simply feel like you are completely numb. In any case, this is a feeling that most of us will have at some point in our lives, whether or not we know it to be depression at the moment. But when your teenager is showing obvious signs of depression, what can you do?

First of all, talk to them. They may not be as communicative as you might like, but you should at least find that you can show your support and that they are probably going to appreciate this in some way. Then you can start offering solutions, if you think that is appropriate, or simply help them find someone professional to talk to.

Then it’s a case of looking out for depression in the future too, in case it returns. Sleeplessness, or too much sleep, along with other factors like mood swings and having low energy and mood, can all be signs – as can experiencing some anxiety at the same time.

Anxiety

In fact, anxiety is another emotion in its own right that is worth looking into, because a lot of teenagers are going to experience it quite often, and it is therefore important to know what to do if your teenager is experiencing it. Anxiety can be a very debilitating feeling, stopping people from doing things they might otherwise do with ease, and generally making it very hard to live a full life. If you want to make sure that you are helping your teenager with this, you might want to look into what teenage anxiety treatment there is that can help with it, much of which is simply stuff you can do at home.

All in all, helping them with their anxiety is certainly going to help them to feel so much more in control and capable, so this is something that you should think about. Anxiety can be worn around like anything else, and it is possible to get through it, so make sure that you are working together with your teenager and this should help a lot.

Those are the main emotions your teen is likely to feel. Be sure to be there for them, whatever they are going through.