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ms might be too much to handle for some if not most of adolescents and the relationship between them and school becomes affected. The kind of environment also plays important roles because if the school has a high rate of non compliance students, violence and aggression, it tends to circulate easily within such environment, also disorganisation within the school structure and lack of enforced rules and guidelines increase aggression in adolescent.

Mood disruptions
There is a connection between adolescence and emotion in the positive and negative way, Hall (1904) also described adolescence as ''the age of rapid fluctuation of moods''. There is a high chance of fluctuation in moods in adolescence due to the various mixes of emotion they pass through in the present stage and this can either be positive and negative, but the negative ones are usually accompanied with mood swing.

Larson and Richard (1994) said adolescents report ''a feeling of self consciousness and embarrassment'' which is reported to be on average of 2-3 times more likely to be more what their parents face and this tends to make them feel lonely, nervy and in certain cases ignored. He also suggested that adolescents report greater mood disruptions compared to pre-adolescent stage. Most of the mood increase and disruption apart from emotional variation can also be caused by the increasing level of hormonal change in the body caused by adolescent transition as well as some other hidden factors e.g. environmental factor such as changing school and having relationship with opposite sex can also be responsible for these mood disruption.

The rate at which all these mood disruption are experienced does vary from one individual to another due to the different reason and factors responsible for this mainly change in school, relationship with opposite sex, poor academic performance, issues with peer group and in some cases family issues such as marital discord.

All these factors bought by stress can be too much to contain and lead to various health related side effect in adolescent because they are under these high obligation to achieve so much at a time such as changes in school, environment, getting high marks in school/college, having part time job, managing finance, peer pressure, social lifestyle e.g. making new friends and family problems. All of these can weigh down adolescent and as a result make them more prone to illness due to the stress and stress put on the body, making them extremely tired and ill which cause them more problems dealing with day to day live and can cause depression thus prompting occasional visit to the GP seeking medical help and due to more demands in accessing healthcare services, they have to wait longer in certain cases to be attended to and may not be fully satisfied with the level of treatment received and thus making them more susceptible to further depression and if care is not taken, it may result in being completely depressed.

(Kevin Durkin pp 515) states that examination of adolescents may lead to the conclusion that they do suffer not from diminution of self esteem but from a woeful spate of self indulgent volatility, out of all proportion to their actual place in the scheme of things. He also suggest that the surge of hormones, the growth of secondary sexual characters, the stimulus of genital arousal, pressure of educational and career choices, temptation of dru