Amidst demanding extracurricular activities and endless amounts of school work, anxiety can be a harsh reality for many students. Whether they are open about their condition or not.

Anxiety can arise from a variety of reasons among high school students, and these causes can vary vastly from person to person. The pressure to do well in school, get into college, achieve the best standardized test scores, to be “popular” among others.

“Stressing out definitely messes with my performance,” senior, Taylor Hatjiouannou said. “Like on a test if I don’t know the answer to one or two questions I’ll get freaked out and forgot the answers to questions that I know the answers to. I always try to just take a ten second break after the ones I struggle with, to ensure that it doesn’t that it doesn’t affect my performance on the rest of the test.”

Students cope with these anxieties in many ways such as through therapy, deep breathing and confiding in their friends. It is suggested that finding healthy ways to ease anxious tendencies can greatly aid the sufferer. (Source: Anxiety Disorder Association of America)

“Well I get headaches frequently in school and out of school, most times I just go to the gym and other times when I’m lazy I just sleep,” sophomore, Trey Heil said.

Anxiety also takes different forms in different people. For some, anxiety causes panic attacks daily, whereas in others it will result in inflated amounts of stress.