As the 2024 US presidential election rounds the corner, many high schoolers are unable to vote, yet still feel immense pressure and anxiety in anticipation of the outcome of the election. In an article from the VTDigger, a local Vermont newspaper, Dr. Steven Schlozman, the chief of child psychiatry at UVM Children’s Hospital, said that kids “are feeling that distress more directly and that makes sense because those laws actually literally affect them.”
For some teens, their parents might reciprocate the feeling a heightened sense of anxiety, in turn making their children more anxious. For others, social media and online platforms are creating election based worries with polarization and a spread of misinformation. Whatever the reason for your election anxiety, here are six tools and strategies to help if you’re ineligible to vote in the upcoming election.
