“Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days, when our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out.” - "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilotstwenty one pilots. A new school year is exciting. The wonderful feeling of a fresh start, catching up with old friends, and making progress by moving up a grade level. But, there is no denying that school can be stressful too. someSome students will have that moment in wherewhen their stomach is tied in knots, muscles are tense, and they feel defeated, unhappy and low. When they are trying to think of a solution or a way out, they just go blank. This only indicates that they are stressed. It happens in everyone's life. From the President of the Philippines, to the police officers, until to the farmers, they all experience stress. As Merriam Webster's dictionary's definition of stress, states: stress is a factor that includes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in the causing of disease. Stress is something that many students are very familiar with. It occurs when the demands on the students exceed to their capabilitycapacity to cope up. Stress is commonly caused by many demands in school as a student, in family as a son, daughter, grandchildrengrandchild or simply just a relative, in the society and environment in which they currently living inlive are all considered major threats ofto academic stress, which risks to disruptdisrupting students’ daily functioning. In school, too much home workshomework and pressure infor exams, poor academic performance, grade ranking competitions, poor interpersonal relationshiprelationships with teachers and schoolmates are just a few of numerous effects of stress. Entering in high school is considered a great experience, however, high school years are also thea time wherewhen students struggle most and find themselves facing a lot of stress. We yearn to propundlessen the antecedents and repercussions of stress in high school students.