The following is excerpted from an online article posted by StudyFinds
The stress of acing exams and meeting parental expectations doesn’t vanish on graduation day. According to a major study tracking nearly 5,000 British teenagers into their twenties, the academic pressure felt at age 15 shows associations with mental health that extend surprisingly far. Seven years later, those who reported feeling the most stressed about school still showed higher depressive symptom scores and greater odds of self-harm, even after they’d left the classroom behind.
The pattern was consistent: teens who felt crushed by academic pressure at 15 continued to report higher levels of depressive symptoms at each follow-up through age 22. The connection persisted whether they went to university, started working, or took another path entirely.
Source: StudyFinds
https://studyfinds.com/school-pressure-longterm-mental-health/