How does negative peer pressure affect your mental health?!
Question: Enough negative peer pressure will cause you to start believing what is being said about you if you listen to it. The same way positive peer pressure will bring a person up. The sad thing is most of the people giving the negativity are the ones who really feel like what they are saying and doing to you. Took me a long time to realize this, please don't let it take you that long. If you are on the receiving end of negative peer pressure ignore it and find some new friends cause these people are not really your friends. They are just trying to make themselves feel better by bringing you down. I wish you the best, and keep your chin up!
Answers: Enough negative peer pressure will cause you to start believing what is being said about you if you listen to it. The same way positive peer pressure will bring a person up. The sad thing is most of the people giving the negativity are the ones who really feel like what they are saying and doing to you. Took me a long time to realize this, please don't let it take you that long. If you are on the receiving end of negative peer pressure ignore it and find some new friends cause these people are not really your friends. They are just trying to make themselves feel better by bringing you down. I wish you the best, and keep your chin up!
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I honeslty dont think in general it affects one's mental health per se but i think it creates ones personality. continuance and long term peer pressure shapes that person and by then that person won't be "pressured" any longer since it's their way of life now. That's what i think in short.
If peers are pressuring someone to do something they do not want to do, and the person "caves" in, they will feel guilty and ashamed. They will not feel good about themselves because their actions are going against what their mind is telling them to do. It may make them feel more likely to succumb to the pressure in the future because they get positive feedback from their friends/approval.
If the person stays strong in their opinion and does not participate, they would feel a sense of self-competence in themselves that they were able to stand by their desires. However, they will probably also feel a sense of not belonging because the friends may not respond positively to that person's decision.
A person should reconsider who they call a friend if this continuously happens. People usually peer pressure others to do "bad" things because they don't want to feel so bad/alone doing it by themselves.
From my experience, it's made me very socially-phobic and withdrawn, also triggered an eating disorder since I was teased so much for my weight. It took years for me to feel comfortable in my own skin and be happy with myself.