Impact of Stress on Youth and its Remedy

Abstract

India comprises with the second largest population of the youth in the world. Various kind of studies throughout the world states that the students pursuing professional courses like medical, dental, engineering are likely to be much stressed than that of the other students. A student taking excessive stress can in future have problems like depression that would affect his intellectual. There was a study conducted from September 2011 to February 2012 and this was conducted among medical, dental and engineering students in the urban area of Sangli district, Maharashtra, India. Out of 1,224 students, 299 (24.4%) experienced stress. Students from all the three field had been undergoing through stress and the main factor was the academic stress. The factors giving rise to the stress may be disintegrating family bond and relationship, work pressure, poor nutrition, lack of rest, social environment. The youth in the country constitutes the age group of 10-24 years and are the future of our country. Nearly 10-30 percent of youths in India suffer from stress and this affects them specifically and the stress has a long lasting impact on youth. They are not able to come out easily from this mental Trauma. Also due to the stress they suffer, they are not able to have a proper diet and this result in many neurological and mental disorders. Stress among youths is nowadays a matter of concern for their parents, teachers and family members. Many a times in life, a situation comes where youth go through stress may be due to the examinations, peer pressure and friendship and they make a bundle of it in their minds and goes through stress. Several youngsters in stress consume alcohol, drugs that affect their life. Through this research paper I will try to examine the impact of stress among the youths and its remedy.