Teenage girls are kind of a mess, according to the Telegraph. In Britain more than one in three girls aged 14 to 15 suffers from anxiety or depression. Of the girls surveyed, 37 per cent had three or more symptoms of psychological distress.
Nick Harrop, of YoungMinds, says: “Stress at school, body image worries, early sexualisation, bullying on and offline and uncertainty about the future after school are all piling on the stress ... Social media also puts pressure on girls to live their lives in the public domain, to present a personal ‘brand’ from a young age, and to seek reassurance in the form of likes and shares.”
