Stressful life of Brazilian students

Stress is a problem that can reach any person in the world in minor or major scale. In Brazil schools it couldn’t be different, researches show that with Brazilian students the level of stress can be noticed and can provoke diseases like: diabets, high blood pressure, gastritis, among others. Even in adolescents this can be noticed.

The competition to do the vestibular in the better and more competitive universities of country, the parents insistent call for better grades, the fear of flunking, of missing some year, the excessive extra activities and doubts about the professional choice can bring situations of stress and consequently, diseases.

The most common symptom is insomnia when the difficulty to sleep appears , it’s a signal the stress problem is present. Besides the insomnia, other characteristics of Brazilian students stress are discouragement, impatience, headaches, lack of concentration, excessive tiredness or even sudden exaggerated enthusiasm without a real motive.

Another problem in Brazilian schools which can bring a stressful situation is the intimidation of classmates, the knows bully. And recently we knew about the murders in a school of Rio de Janeiro, that caused certainly a lot of stress to his students, but this was a punctual situation.

Despite the presented examples, my opinion is that most of the Brazilian students are not really worried and stressed at school and they know how to get fun studying and enjoying the moments with the classmates.