Teen Anxiety Support Group

The Teen Anxiety community is focused on teens who are suffering from or concerned about anxiety. Teenagers commonly experience many different forms of stress as they continually face new situations. The purpose of the community is to help facilitate teens communication, and in the process share ideas, and develop the knowledge, tools and techniques that may effectively...

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harleyquinn1 05/08/2014

I developed anxiety due to the way one of my teachers was treating me in class, always victimising me and doing everything she could to humiliate me and basically making me feel worthless. Since I went to the school pastoral department she's laid off and is now actually being supportive, but I'm still having anxiety attacks whenever I'm in the same room as her. Only now I'm getting stressed about other teachers and subjects too and having anxiety attacks when I get stressed or worried in school, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. What should I do?

deleted_user 05/09/2014

I'm currently going through a very similar situation. Because of how bad my anxiety got with school (and another home situation) I decided to leave school. I'm currently taking GED classes (not as bad as everyone makes it out to be) and will be finished with that in June. I'll then be attending college two years earlier than I would've if I stayed in college.
In your situation, I'd consider doing what I did. If you want to go to college, you CAN. Or if you don't plan on going to college, most employers look at GED and high school diploma the same. Trust me.
If you're too uncomfortable with that, I suggest switching schools. That way you'll no longer be triggered by not only that teacher, but the school that she treated you badly in.
I also suggest trying to go to a therapist if you haven't already. Your school anxiety can turn into a lot worse if you don't get some sort of help.
I wish you the best of luck! :)

harleyquinn1 05/11/2014

thankyou for your advice and I would, except that mine is the only school in the area. I live in a very remote part of Northumberland and I already travel over 10 miles to get to school, the next nearest one is over an hour away in scotland and I just couldn't get transport there :/

CyFar 05/14/2014

I had a very similar situation but my trigger was the students not the teachers. I'd suggest going to your local GP, talk to them about the 'Better Minds project', or something similar. That's what I go to. Basically your doctor will put you through to the local mental health unit and they will assign group or solo counselling sessions for you. I asked my doctor in September and I've now been seeing my counsellor since January. So they are pretty good with it! It really helps just having someone to talk through what you're feeling with, who listens and gives you useful tools to handle the situation. It really helped me and if you can't move schools it's a pretty good alternative. :) Good luck. If you ever need to talk you can message me whenever x

deleted_user 06/23/2014

I totally get it sometimes I feel like I'm struggling to get through the day when my anxiety gets to me. What I usually do when it gets bad is go to the nurse for a bit she' s super nice and helps me calm down . message me if you want to talk xoxo,
Annie(16)

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