Pressure from family and friends can cause grade 12 learners to be overly stressed, socially withdraw, start having bad grades, and slip into depression. This happens because the pressure from friends and family turns into a constant nagging that pesters the person to do better or something along those lines. The person will then feel a certain need to fulfill the expectations and take it to an extreme level. More nagging will come and the person will get overly stressed from what they have to do. Grade 12 learners are balancing work, school, social life, possibly a relationship, and family. Adding the extra pressure of doing better in school or hanging out more with friends will cause the careful balancing to be unbalanced and it can cause the person to mess up and start getting overly stressed.
