The ever growing overachiever culture consists of students whom dedicate themselves to their educational success. Day in and day out they sacrifice opportunities that could benefit them mentally, socially, and emotionally in order to ensure that their academic achievement is reached and accounted for toward their success in the modern times’ treacherous fight. These students are well known for pushing themselves off the edge and making them

Geraldine Bedell’s article “Teenage Mental-Health Crisis: Rates of Depression Have Soared in Past 25 Years” writes about many statistics proving that the percentage has increased about 70% in the past 25 years. It has also been recorded by 93% of teachers in 2016 that they have witnessed more and more mental illnesses and many more cases becoming more severe than what has been witnessed in the past.

Students in today’s society have evolved into people of pure stress. All that they seem to focus on is their academic achievements and this had led to mass amounts of stress from themselves and when combined with the stress of social engagements, teachers, parents, and the competition of friends all create such an intense environment that has been causing a large increase in mental illnesses in said students. These types of students inflicted with so much stress from so many angles of their busy life consisting of sports, academics, social events, and many different aspects of high school life have troubles when all the stress from these many aspects come together. These students so badly wish to rise to the top of their class in order to become an elite individual in today’s society that there is a vast amount of stress that comes along with such aspirations. These students want nothing more than success and they drive themselves to dangerous limits and with these students becoming the normal average everyday student, mental illnesses increase rapidly.