Social issues - Stress
Social Issues
Topic: Stress
1. Situation
Stress is a serious problem nowadays in Hong Kong. No one in Hong Kong is exempt from stress, the poor struggle to make ends meet, the rich worry about their investments because they are afraid of losing their wealth while the middle-class work so hard in order to collect a critical mass of investment money so that they may join their rich neighbours. No matter children, teenagers or adult, are also having short-term or long-term stress. Teenagers having stress due to their parent, friends or school works and adult having stress due to family burden and workplace. Some of the teenagers and adult do not know how to deal with stress and therefore committed suicide and feel depressed all the time.
2. Causes
Those stress teenagers felt are usually comes from different aspect, such as school, family and friends. For school, moving to a new school, academic result and homework, performances on extracurricular activities would be the causes of stress since teenagers concern about these the most. For family, parents who are giving high expectations are also one of the main cause since lots of teenagers care about how parents fell about themselves and worry about they cannot reach the target which parent had given to them. For friends, having good or bad relationship with friends are also a factor which affecting teenagers feelings.
Adults feel stressful usually because of family burden and workplace stress. They are worrying about there are enough money for their family to maintain living expenses or not and facing lay off employees crisis. Therefore, they will feel stressful all the time.
3. Problems
Parent put loads of hope on to their children and willing to have reciprocation in their retirement life. They are hoping that their children can have a good academic result and work very hard on their public exam thus can find an ideal job. Therefore, they will push their children so hard to achieve their
Topic: Stress
1. Situation
Stress is a serious problem nowadays in Hong Kong. No one in Hong Kong is exempt from stress, the poor struggle to make ends meet, the rich worry about their investments because they are afraid of losing their wealth while the middle-class work so hard in order to collect a critical mass of investment money so that they may join their rich neighbours. No matter children, teenagers or adult, are also having short-term or long-term stress. Teenagers having stress due to their parent, friends or school works and adult having stress due to family burden and workplace. Some of the teenagers and adult do not know how to deal with stress and therefore committed suicide and feel depressed all the time.
2. Causes
Those stress teenagers felt are usually comes from different aspect, such as school, family and friends. For school, moving to a new school, academic result and homework, performances on extracurricular activities would be the causes of stress since teenagers concern about these the most. For family, parents who are giving high expectations are also one of the main cause since lots of teenagers care about how parents fell about themselves and worry about they cannot reach the target which parent had given to them. For friends, having good or bad relationship with friends are also a factor which affecting teenagers feelings.
Adults feel stressful usually because of family burden and workplace stress. They are worrying about there are enough money for their family to maintain living expenses or not and facing lay off employees crisis. Therefore, they will feel stressful all the time.
3. Problems
Parent put loads of hope on to their children and willing to have reciprocation in their retirement life. They are hoping that their children can have a good academic result and work very hard on their public exam thus can find an ideal job. Therefore, they will push their children so hard to achieve their