Question

Adolescence is a critical stage of development for humans. Most people associate adolescence with physical changes, but there are also emotional changes that preteens and teenagers experience during this time. Describe the emotional changes you noticed in someone you know.
                 

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Answer 1

Answer: The emotional changes in a teenager I met became very marked.

Explanation:

Adolescence is indeed a stage in which adolescents can be considered as going through certain hormonal changes, but that does not mean that all their behaviors are due to the impulses they have. Many times they are aware of what they do and use the excuse of being minors and ignore something to justify what they do.

Adolescence is a stage that includes many changes, where environmental and cultural influences play a very decisive role. In my experience, I met a teenager who had a very marked period due to how his development was.

José (false name) lived in an environment where abuse was the protagonist. His father used to mistreat his mother verbally and grew up watching this. As I grew up I had very rebellious attitudes. His mother was called constantly at school because of the behavior she presented. When he was surrounded by his friends if he did not like something he used to express it in a somewhat aggressive way, where shouting and insults were his forms of communication. The changes that Joseph used to manifest were related to sudden mood swings, he responded by being exalted to anything he was told, he sometimes isolated himself and did not talk to anyone.

One day I sat down to talk to José and asked him why he behaves in such a way, the only thing he used to tell me is that nobody understood him, so I decided to investigate a little more. Talk to your mother and ask about her past and she told me a little about what Joseph was exposed to. I convinced her to seek professional help since José grew up in an environment where expressing himself that way was the best.

I was not a psychologist yet, but I had a little knowledge of what I was learning in the race. Over time, José became a more educated person and recognized how difficult his period of adolescence was. He knew that his friends did not want to share with him because of his way of acting, he recognized that his behavior caused him to interfere with his learning process, but he also knows that that was what he learned.

Teenagers not only suffer changes due to hormones but also the surrounding environment greatly influences their development and the way they act.