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Honors 8
Middle School Internal Conflicts
There are many internal conflicts that middle school students are facing today. One of
the conflicts that students are facing is peer pressure. Peer pressure can cause students to act
different and make bad decisions. Another conflict that students are facing today is depression.
Depression can cause students to injure themselves or others. The last conflict is becoming an
adult. Becoming an adult can cause a lot of stress.
There are a lot of things that students can be peer pressured. One of them is taking
illegal substances. Students can get convinced into doing them. This can cause them to make
the wrong decisions. More things that they can be convinced into doing is breaking the law in
many different ways. Peer pressure can be bad for everybody. They will think that what they
are doing is not wrong, but it actually is. Peer pressure gets into a person’s mind by convincing
them of something that is wrong or they don’t want to do.
Another internal conflict that students can face today is depression. Depression can
cause people to do a lot of bad things. Some things that depression can cause is suicide and
injuring themselves. They could also injure others too. Depression can also cause students to
make the wrong choices and do badly in school. Being happy is better than being depressed. It
plays an important role in being healthy and doing well in school. Depression can change
someone’s mind completely the other way around.
The last conflict that students face is becoming an adult. Becoming an adult can cause
students to become stressed. Stress can get into a person’s mind and change their decisions. It
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can make them do badly in school, and it can also make them unhealthy. Overall stress is bad
for people and their minds. Stress messes with your body and it can make people do things that
they don’t intend to do.
Today students are facing many internal conflicts. Some of them are peer pressure,
depression, and becoming an adult. These conflicts can change someone’s life completely. It
can also be better for some people and bad for other people.