Seven Deadly Outcomes of Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure outcomes

What is Peer Pressure?

  • Man is a social animal. He is born to live in a community surrounded by people.
  • Since our childhood, we have friends nearby us with whom we make our most precious memories. Our friend’s group alters till we are sensible enough to know the value of friendship. In the phase of life where teens are striving to identify a place in society, they tend to spend a great deal of time with their peers. The bad or negative influence of peers sometimes ends up with unwanted peer pressure whose aftermath is hefty.
  • Peers may have a diverse influence on the personality of not only teens but also, adolescents, adults, or even senior citizens. However, teens are more susceptible to this issue because they are still immature to comprehend what is right and wrong and which path they must follow. They are fascinated to see a world full of opportunities laying in front of them. Teens will try to explore anything and everything that the universe has to offer them. Oftentimes these fantasies prove to be fallacies, all because of wasting your time with the wrong company. 

Following are the seven negative outcomes of peer pressure

Difficult to Trust Anyone

  • Do you have a trust issue? Friendship is all about trust and mutual understanding. Have you told an extremely personal secret of yours to your friend and the next day it had become the talk of the town? You felt miserable, right? Once your trust breaks there is no other way to amend it. 
  • You get deceived by your peers and turn out to be alone. You don’t feel like interacting with new people. Isolation is the best option because of your trust issues. Efforts must be done to include special character traits such as trust, kindness, cooperation, and respect in your friendship.

Rapid Mood Swings

One of the prevailing outcomes of bad peer pressure is having poor mental and physical conditions. Anxiety, depression, ego, jealousy, anger, and bad temper are a few bad practices name. It is obvious to feel frustrated when you are pressurized to do something you never wanted to. The constant thinking to live up to everyone’s expectations is weary. It results in a constant switch of emotions.

Lack of Attention in Studies

While this shall be the time to invest in your skills for brighter future teens and adults often give in to peer pressure. There might be someone in your group demotivating you not to study and later on you see him pass the exam with flying colors. Surprising!

This is because life is like a race in which everyone strives to win however, the way one reaches a finishing line is what matters. So rather than believing in anything and everything your peers say do give it a thought.

Lower Self-Esteem

No doubt while you are young you try to stand out among all and look cool. Who doesn’t want to? Hanging out with a bunch of friends not only makes you look socially acceptable but also gives you confidence in having someone to count on. But when these friends make fun of you it feels like hell. You feel dejected. Bad peer pressure evokes low self-esteem. The person starts to doubt his capabilities and question his existence. So, you need to be very careful while choosing your peer group. Invest your friendship in those who radiate a positive vibe

Health Problems

Suppose a scenario where your colleague got promoted while you were unable to cut. who would make you feel most miserable your friends, family, relatives, or those nasty peers who called you just to rub salt in your wounds? Eventually, the stress will take its toll. Your nerves keep on shattering leading to serious health conditions depression, personality disorders, cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure. if your friends become successful in making you take up drugs and illegal narcotics several inevitable health issues are your last resort.

Poor Communication

Making friends with dissimilar interests is a big mistake. Due to peer pressure teens are pushed to think a certain way and follow some norms. They must possess similar moral and ethical values. But we are humans, not robots. If your friends don’t allow you to speak what you think they don’t respect you. Your silence in a discussion whose topic you aren’t interested in appears to be your involvement. You are discouraged to have an opinion of your own. All of this results in poor communication with your age fellows. You tend to keep your views to yourself instead of announcing them in public. Some sort of a void is created between an individual and his peers.

Walking Away and Saying No to Drug Abuse 

  • Friends coming from different backgrounds have many divergent values and ethics. they might be pressurized to try out dangerous and illegal items in the name of mere enjoyment and experimentation. You must be thinking about how to put down the offer of drinking or taking drugs. will it affect your friendship? But remember if something struck your conscious at first it means it’s not good for you. Follow your gut. Those who don’t stand up for their rights find themselves in hot water.  Learn to walk away from dangerous peers and if you get into drugs seek professional help for drug abuse and don’t get involved in it.
  • Friends can either make your life or break your life! Peers who have interests not similar to your need not be your friends. Teens don’t think that inciting you for trying out something illegal and harmful for your health isn’t freedom or in any way adventurous. They are blindfolded and follow the decisions persuaded by their peers without heeding its consequences
  • Apart from all the negative consequences of peer pressure listed above its positive side also weigh heavy. So be smart and vigilant. Try to distinguish what is right or wrong for you. Don’t make hast while choosing your peers because they might become your extended family in the years to come.