Angst is a general term for many feelings that teenagers often experience, including anxiety, stress, and depression. Anger may also be involved, although it is often directed at the world or society at large. This phenomenon is very common in teenagers and is usually simply attributed to a phase that teenagers go through naturally. However, there are many more serious reasons to consider distress and how it develops. In psychological terms, distress can be described as depression or anxiety. In adolescence the brain is still developing; many parts of it are not fully formed. This can cause adolescents to develop traits such as depression, anxiety, selfishness and self-consciousness. These mental conditions are treatable and quite common. The problem is that parents do not believe that their child may have a mental disorder, regardless of how widespread it is. Some parents can't even afford medical bills, but other parents simply refuse to take their children for help. Scientists have found that hormonal changes are significant during pubescence, which causes an influx of emotions. Teens also experience changes in sexual desire, stress management, and overall behavior. We often talk about the hormones testosterone and estrogen, but other hormones are also responsible for strange behavior in adolescents, such as oxytocin, a hormone that is partly responsible for sexual desire. Distress has a number of factors determining its cause, but the main stress comes from society's expectations, feelings of abandonment or lack of attention, and incipient sexuality. The following poems are great examples of the adolescent mindset: anxiety, angst, mood swings, memories, and danger. “Barbie Doll” explores the beauty standards imposed on teenage girls… at the center of the paper… at the reproductive system. These images are originally idle and lacking, but explode with excitement in the next stanza: "So the black serpent, stiff with inaction, came to life again and hunted the mouse." The sexual metaphor presents the male as a black snake and the female as a mouse, a more primitive and animalistic representation of sex due to the nature of adolescents to act only on their evolutionary impulses without considering the consequences. The next image shows the two separating in their cars. They were “Parked like the soul of the junkyard” because they represent adolescent memories of those old cars, but fresh and new. The poem's ending, "Drunk on the wind in my mouth, twisting the handlebars for speed, wild to be a wreck forever", embodies the adolescent spirit of living fast and dangerously, without thinking of the future but only of the present.