TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Psychological issues

Teenagers are very emotional. In this age, they feel everything with much intensity. Their state of mind changes a lot, depending on the many things that occur along the day. The factors that change their humour can be music, guys, love disappointment, certain commentaries, friendship…
In this phase, teenager’s hormones go in a “Rollercoaster”, and they feel attraction for each other. They want to experiment a lot of new things, especially sex (they feel desire), because they want to discover their bodies and the pleasure that they can feel with it. But sometimes, that can go wrong, because girls can get pregnant, and that changes their lives, and their minds a lot.
Love is a very important thing. Teenagers fall in love and they feel like they’re in heaven. But it can be disappointing, because love may not be corresponded. But nowadays, they just think: dates, love = pleasure. They just want to have fun- they don’t think in true love and all that boring stuff. And we agree with it.

By: Madalena

Mariana

Mª Eduarda

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse affect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy. Body mass index (BMI), which compares weight and height, is used to define a person as overweight (pre-obese) when their BMI is between 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2 and obese when it is greater than 30 kg/m2.
Obesity is associated with many diseases, particularly heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breathing difficulties during sleep, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive dietary calories, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility, though a limited number of cases are due solely to genetics, medical reasons, or psychiatric illness.
The primary treatment for obesity is dieting and physical exercise. If this fails, anti-obesity drugs may be taken to reduce appetite or inhibit fat absorption. In severe cases, surgery is performed or an intragastric balloon is placed to reduce stomach volume and or bowel length, leading to earlier satiation and reduced ability to absorb nutrients from food.
In Portugal we have a lot of situations of obesity, even in the childhood. Even in our class we have some cases… Obesity is very bad. Try to dodge.



Israel Machado
Hugo Silva
8º3

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - School overwork

We think that overwork is a big problem nowadays.
All the people are stressed with work and deadlines and the young people are affected too.
The writer of the book Papalagui criticised the watches and the people’s dependence on them, and we agree with him.
We think that our timetable is too heavy and we go to school too early and we arrive home too late.
Do you know that 7th grade students have today an amazing number of fourteen subjects?! How is it possible that the students can learn so many different subjects?! It doesn’t surprise anyone that the students have so much school failure!

By:

João Oliveira

Gustavo

António

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Parents' divorce

The divorce of parents completely transforms the lives of their children, and this transformation proceeds with a great pain: losing the daily intimacy with their parents, changes the concept of family and makes them feel basically abandoned. The impacts can be very different, according to sex and age of the children when there is a separation, but there are also elements in common in the experience of all children who have crossed this crisis.
The experience of divorce brings new elements to the identity of the child, changing it. The children of divorced families share their attitudes, feelings and illusions, and are considered members of a panel. The fact of being children of divorced parents is suffering with a fixed identity that defines their personality and deeply affects their present and future relationships. Feel that the process of growth is more difficult, and that is because the divorce causes trauma. Over the years, they live with feelings of loss, sadness and anxiety, feel less protected, less care.

By:
Andreia
Rute
Marília

Braga is not a violent city but it is not really that calm. Some teens are involved with carjacking or stealing gasoline. Hitting other teens until they bleed or putting them in hospital.
There are robberies in shoppings, banks, cafés and houses.
I have a friend whose house was robbed. They stole her computer, pen, T.V etc …
But now lots of houses have a security alarm so if something happens they ring.

By:
Catarina Azevedo
Jessica

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Smoking

Consumption of tobacco in Portugal:

In our school many people smoke, we never smoke because we think smoking just spoils our life.
In Portugal we see many teenagers smoking, starting more or less at 11-16 years old.
There are more girls than boys smoking, the total number of deaths due to tobacco use reached 4.9 million deaths annually, which represents more than 10 thousand deaths for day.

Other opinions:
“I think smoking to look superior is stupid”- Eduarda


By: Eduarda and Lara

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Bullying

Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways.
Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person. Behaviors may include name calling, verbal or written abuse, exclusion from activities, exclusion from social situations, physical abuse, or coercion. Bullies may behave this way to be perceived as popular or tough or to get attention. They may bully out of jealousy or be acting out because they themselves are bullied.
There are two categories of bullying: direct bullying, that involves a great deal of physical aggression and indirect bullying, that is characterized by threatening the victim into social isolation.
In Portugal there are a lot of bullying cases, in our school there aren’t many cases.
We were never affected by bullying.

By:
Ana Pinto
Joana Oliveira
Leandra Queirós

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Anorexia and bulimia

Most of anorexic and bulimic people are women. These diseases are caused by some mental disorders like the fault, resentment, jealousy, etc. It can also be an eating disorder problem, which happens in all the situations. The weight loss causes dizziness, headache, weakness, faint or even anemia and the hair falls out. Anorexic people are usually underweight, but when they look at the mirror they see a fat person. They’re never thin enough, because they don’t want to have a normal weight; they always want to be thinner and thinner till they turn into “skeletons”, because that’s what they want. These people do too much exercise and don’t eat almost anything. Otherwise, when they eat they throw up, use pills or they also do much exercise, but they rarely loose a huge amount of weight. If these people don’t find help… they die before they’re “skinny enough”.


By: Ana Silva and Bárbara

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Drugs

Nowadays there are many teenagers in Portugal that get themselves into the drugs. The drugs are chemicals that make teenagers addicted. There are many types of drugs like cocaine, cannabis, heroine, marijuana, peyote, LSD, hashish and opium. In Portugal there are some cases of traffic of drugs, the police confiscates many drugs. The drugs are very difficult to get off.

By: Sérgio, João Dias, João Rafael

TEENAGERS PROBLEMS - Alcohol

Alcoholism is a growing problem in young Portuguese. It affects mainly young people between 12 and 16 years. What causes this is the influence of friends and sometimes to draw attention from their parents.
In most cases parents do not know, they only discover when the problem is very advanced, some are addicted to alcohol and get into alcoholic coma.


By: Carla Veloso
Catarina Marques
Margarida Castro