Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Breathe - In the Heights

The song Breathe resonates with me because I can relate to the pressure of carrying other people's expectations that they have for me and wanting to make them proud. Like Nina, I have also had moments in my life where I felt like my only option was to succeed no matter what and when things didn't go according, I worried about letting those people in my life down. Needing to take a breath and find a way to keep going and moving forward is something I connected with too.


CONNECTION - "The association between academic pressure and adolescent mental health problems: A systematic review" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37437728/

In this article, researchers reviewed 52 studies and found that in 48 of them, academic pressure was positively associated with negative mental health outcomes. When you are put under so much pressure and expectations to do well and succeed, it can greatly impact your mental health, specifically adolescents which are talked about in this article. In this song, Nina reflects a problem many students face today.


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