Anxiety for Teens

If you feel anxious most of the time, you are not alone. About 1 in 3 people your age struggles with feelings of worry, fear and panic.  The good news is that are a lot of resources to provide you with effective techniques and information about anxiety.

You are to follow the directions below: 

Explore the web pages to be able to answer the questions, and provide yourself with useful information. 

Please record your answers to the questions on a word document to submit to your teacher.

Go to the following web page to start the quest:

https://youth.anxietycanada.com/anxiety-101

Click on the start here, and navigate through the sections to answer the following questions:

Question 1) What is anxiety?

Question 2) What is flight-fight-freeze?

Click the go back to the bedroom, click on the quiz "Is Anxiety a Problem for me?"

Question 3) Record your results from the quiz.

Go to the following website:

https://kidshelpphone.ca/topic/emotional-well-being/anxiety-panic/

Read "How to Cope with Panic and Anxiety."

Question 4) List the most common types of anxiety disorders.

Question 4) Which of the 7 ways to cope with anxiety now, would be most effective personally?

Question 5) What is a panic attack?

Look throughout the website to find the services that "Kids Help Phone" offers.

Question 6 ) What are the 3 ways you can reach " Kids Help Phone" now?

Go to the following website:

https://apps.kidshelpphone.ca/resourcesaroundme/welcome.html?_ga=2.1508…

Enter your town, and the topic you would like to find resources for.

Question 7) What resources in your town did you NOT know about?

Question 8) Pick one resources from the list you might use, list the phone number, address, and website if possible. 

Go to the following website:

https://youth.anxietycanada.com/video/teen-truths

Watch "Struggling with Anxiety?Try a New Perspective."

Question 9) What was the message of the video?

Go the "Thinking Right" Section.

Read through the "thinking right", "What am I telling Myself ( Automatic Thoughts), and " All about Self-Talk."

Question 10) What is self-talk?

Question 11) How can it affect you?

Go Back to the bedroom. Click on the banana peel.

Question 12) List the common thinking traps.

Question 13) Which thinking trap relates most to you?

Question 14) Provide an example.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and Click on "Thinking Right Tools." Read through the different tools.

Question 15) How many thinking tools are there?

Question 16) Which tool would be most useful to you? Why?

Go back to the bedroom. Click on the mirror.

Question 17) How can you be kinder to yourself?

Go to the following website:

https://cmha.ca/whats-your-stress-index

Question 18) Take the quiz, and record your results.

Take the "Mental Health Meter."

Question 19) Take the quiz, record your results.

Go to the following website:

http://teenmentalhealth.org/learn/mental-disorders/generalized-anxiety-…

Read the article.

Question 20) When does anxiety become a problem?

Question 21) What percent of people will develop Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Go to the following website: 

https://youthinbc.com/about-us/

Question 22) What is "youthinbc.com"?

Question 23) What age is considered "youth"?

Question 24)  Do you think this is a site you would use?