Emotional+Changes

__** Emotional Changes ** __

**Puberty is not just physical changes that occur during the teenage years, it also involves emotional changes. A lot of teens start feeling conscious about the changes (usually physical), and start to become easily embarrassed.

When teenagers go further in their pubertythey become interested in relationships with peopl. They start looking at the world with a different perspective. Your hormons also play a very important part in your emotional development as they enable you to go through yourprocess of puberty.

Emotional changes would have to be one of the toughest stages of puberty. Things like** **frustration and mood swings. on top of things like high school and other teenage problems this can be a hard stage of your life. The effects of changing emotionally may or may not be easily recognisable. Mood swings are a completely normal part of adolescence. They are when your mood changes suddenly ('swings') even at the slightest of things, for example, you may become easily angered at your friend for borrowing a pen without permission.

Adolescence can be hard on many girls. A combination of period pain, breast development, and how they look, worring about what age they should start wearing make up, academic work, and sport can take a big emotional impact on young girls. Girls may become sensitive and less open about themselves during this time. Sometimes they feel they cannot talk to anyone about the changes they are experiencing. However, there are ways of coping and support mechanisms that could be of assistance to them during these tough times. the best thing to do is to go and see the school cancouler about the emotions and physical pains that you are going through. Another source of advice can be family members (whether they be parents, brother, sister, aunties, uncles, grandparents or even older siblings). They have already been through the processes of puberty so they know what you are going through.** =Here are some feelings that you may be expierincing when you are going through puberty.= = =

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 * You might become a lot more moody ,You might develop a sensitive personality, You might lose your temper at small things, You might have problems at school,You might have strong arguments with your parents, You might be feeling stressed a lot more, you may be thinking when is this all going to stop etc.**======