THE ADOLESCENCE

The adolescence, period between the 12 and 20 years, begin by a series of physical and psychological changes, that must to sexual hormones.
Before the adolescence, the children form bands with other children and the children whisper and laugh with other children.
When entering itself in the adolescence, each sex is interested more in the opposite one, increasing its tolerance towards him.
But and others tend to maintain bonds with greater members of their own sex, to which they admire.

“To fall in love” with professors, to admire sportsmen or the tired adoration of the idols “pop” also has a valuable function: those people serve as models to which small and small they imitate, thus learning to being individual adults of their own sex.
Of this form. greater people other people’s completely to the family can replace the parentages models that directed to the boy during the childhood.

Physical changes at the beginning of the adolescence

Both sexes can feel distressed by the physical changes that take place in the body when beginning the puberty.
The girls are often timid, because of their type, or they become distressed by the menstrual irregularities.
The boys worry themselves frequently by the development of their genitals, thinking that less they are equipped than his companions.
Since as much the boys as the girls are developed to rates and different ages, are easy that that are developed more delayed they distress thinking that something does not go well. This anxiety often is masked by hypochondriacs anguishes, and many adolescents look for their reach at all costs the confirmation of which does not suffer tuberculosis, cancer or another disease.
In both sexes the acne is one annoying secondary consequence of the influence of sexual hormones.
This ugly disease of the skin (that can affect the face, to the chest and the back) increases the timidity, mainly if it appears in the face.
Who suffer it not only think with reason, that their companions will find them less attractive: also they think sometimes that the acne is a signal a punishment of his first sexual experiences the acne is a disease of the adolescence that requires the cares of the doctor
The obesity also affects often to the boys and girls in this period of its lives; it does not have to be considered like a “fleeting obesity of puppy”.
On the one hand, he is frequent that becomes permanent. On the other hand, it is often consequence of a compulsive overfeeding, symptom of anxiety and depression.
Like the acne, it is a physical dysfunction, often neglected and that would be due to correct.

Lack of social seriousness and exhibitionisms

In any case, the adolescence is a time of lack of social seriousness.
To be neither young nor adult is a difficult situation.
Some adolescents become very timid, avoiding the social contacts.
Others blatantly become exhibitionists, boasting ostensibly of their incipient emancipation with provocative clothes and eccentric hairdos.
The adolescents of the western cultures have more money now and they have become a massive market and a easy target of the publicity.
Many announcements operate the natural anxiety of the adolescent on their physical appearance and its social acceptability.
From it is wastefulness in clothes, cosmetics, shampoos and deodorants on the part of many adolescents, thinking that they must be to the height of the social sense of expectancy that the mass media have instilled to them artificially.

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