When you’re a teenager, one week of lousy to bad experiences can feel like five long years. You wonder if it will ever stop being so lousy? That’s where having a hobby, a sport or the right kind of friends/ family can really help you.
You need to redirect yourself away from the negativity. With any luck, you soon learn to tolerate little ‘bumps in the road’, little disappointments.
Unfortunately, social media, especially for teenaged girls, is an echo chamber of negativity, in which each one pretends to believe the tales of woe from all the others, and they play, "Can you top this?" in competition for the position of Saddest Victim of awful parents providing us with the easiest life in the history of the world.
When they're at school, having to go to school is the Worst Ever Torture. Now that they're not, they pretend to love school, because you don't get any status points for being cheerful and upbeat about today's circumstances. "Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!!"