Adolescence is a stage of life that everyone has passed through, most of us emerge unscathed but there are still many who struggle. The reason of their fall is not their lack of boldness or any other kind of weakness but, the environment they are brought up, the problem may lie in unsettled family issues, divorce, financial crisis and much more, these are the few things that can disturb one’s life and keep him/her preoccupied and allowing him not to concentrate on anything, this may results into degraded school performance and mood swings sometimes. These are general struggles to sustain life these days. The fight for survival did not end with a handful of events given in historical pieces of evidence, marking human capabilities of adaptability at the time of crisis and sustenance of life. From centuries the evolution of mind and life of humans has resulted in the generation of tenacious situations in different stages of life to deal with.

Out of all stages, the most vulnerable state is adolescence as, this is the period of life full of uncertainties and sometimes anger due to acceptance of transformation and changes of life, body, and relationships. The fear of rejection, feeling socially inept and a lot more goes on in one mind, they feel confused and incapable of handling problems sometimes, this lower self-esteem and confidence if not rectified these problem goes on magnifying. This new phase of life, coming out of a comfortable world build by parents is no easy task, some accept it as a challenge and proceed, thinking adolescence as a perk to establish their independence and making their own identity under the sun. Taking decisions of life according to themselves and in the race of proving themselves, they keep on pushing their potentials to achieve their desires and success while some are full of fears, parents should ameliorate such conditions if noticed by boosting one’s morals, talking and helping them to overcome their fears.

Parents should support their wards decisions and never pressurize them to opt anything because of family legacy or society fears, for instance, it is generally observed that parents with engineering or doctor background make up their wards mind to be like them, irrespective of their interests, this is done maybe due so-called family legacy sake or fear that what society will say, anything can never justify such peccadillo. This is the time for the teenagers to grow and develop, to embrace and realize their true self’s, any unwanted interference can break them from what they could have been. Everyone is not capable to cope up with broken dreams and mislead paths. These scars in life later turn to cancer and one of the names in teenage life is depression. So parents should be the first one to come for support and help rather than seeking out for depression specialist, and rely on medicines alone not only harms the kids but brings distance between parents and kids relationship and may raise trust issues. The risks are too high as, teenage depression can further lead them into drug and alcohol abuse, reckless behavior, violence, internet addiction, self-loathing, running away, and even suicide. Teenagers are fragile anything and everything can break them so we should try to get them out through this, with few or no scars. Parents concerns and care should not only be in their mind but in their action, if parents get any sign of depression, parents should listen and let a child open up without lecturing, try to understand his point of view as well, offer support be gentle but persistent and at most validate their feelings and make them feel beloved and wanted.