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Usually in our teenage years, we are exposed to many sudden and mysterious mood swings as a result of our body undergoing various hormonal modifications that prepare us for their adult years.

Aside from enhanced social pressures, the onset of menstruation, for instance, introduces adolescent girls to premenstrual stress (or premenstrual syndrome) and the menstrual cramps, the former being a mixture of physical and psychological symptoms, consisting of short-lived weight gain, fluid retention, anxiety, fits of temper and the like.

Of these, anxiety is possibly one of the most frequently determined conditions that both females and males vouch for, particularly at the onset of puberty.

Depression is a term we colloquially use to pertain to any specific duration of prolonged despair and lethargy. Colloquial usage would even permit us to call anxiety any 'low' point between periods of 'high' or happiness. A popular one-liner, which many of us recognize with, even reaches stating that anxiety remains in fact merely anger without interest.

Nevertheless, the genuine essence of anxiety is the fact that you can't merely 'snap out of it', and that it has the storage capacity to interrupt your day-to-day activities. It is characterized by long term sadness, stress and anxiety, unusual state of mind shifts accompanied by a degree of unreasonable thought, pessimism, and is responsible for modifications in the way we eat, sleep, or interact with other people that in effect cripples us from participating in efficient activities.

Anxiety is considered a disorder that needs treatment and interest initially due to the fact that it may be a cause for withdrawal from society as it provides a semblance of suffering, pessimism, and low self-confidence. Depression may cause modifications in physical behavior (like consuming or resting) that might disrupt routine everyday activities or might be mortally hazardous for whoever suffers from it. It might likewise, in effect, harm interactions with other individuals, especially those within the atomic neighborhood (like family and friends).

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