Exploring the Soul: Inside the Teenage Brain

Our family, professional psychologists or scientists, and other people around us try to decipher what’s going on inside of our teenage brains. But the reality is that even we, the teenagers, don’t have a clue about it.

Primarily, the perception our parents have about our strange behavior is that we "were invaded by another body”. When they stated this in the video, I thought this was a really humorous notion. Our parents were teenagers once, so I cannot comprehend why they have silly suggestions about our conduct! We are simply teenagers.

Before trespassing into the dangerous world of adolescence, we have an overproduction of cells in the frontal lobe of the brain. By the age of 6, our brains are already 95% of its adult size.

The brain is the central core of our emotions and actions. During our puberty years, the frontal lobe of the brain is developing, improving, and using its muscles by practice and experience. This is the only way to increment our brain capacity and avoid the death of cells.

But how can we avoid brain damage? Deep sleep is the only way to rejuvenate our brain cells. You need at least 8 hours to rest your brain from all your angst. I believe sleeping early does not only depend on us, but it includes other factors as well. To sleep early would mean sacrificing certain things. In my experience, when I sleep late one night and then sleep a little earlier the next night, I suffer of more fatigue because I haven’t fully recovered. My brain is constantly analyzing everything, and therefore, that explains my stress problems.

On the other hand, an amusing part of being a teen is that we are brave enough to take hazardous risks, even though if we are more susceptible in this point of life.