Self-care can help you cope with:

Anxiety: Self-care routines around mindfulness, relaxation, movement, and joyful activities can help teenagers with anxiety by reducing cortisol in the brain. This turns off the brain’s ‘fight or flight’ response, which causes a lot of physical symptoms of anxiety, such as a racing heart or tensing muscles.

Depression: Symptoms of depression can often involve the breakdown of meaningful activities and routines, such as social withdrawal and poor personal hygiene. Self-care routines to help teenagers with depression can involve connecting with friends, journaling about feelings, and maintaining good personal care in terms of hygiene, sleep, and diet.