Gaby Rabinovich remembers the first time she threw up while taking a test. It was a few months ago, early on in her freshman year at Marblehead High School in Massachusetts.
She was sitting in biology class when, she recalls, she got so anxious that she excused herself to the bathroom.
Rabinovich typically starts her day at 6 a.m. and gets to school at 7:15. On Mondays she runs a government club called Junior State of America. She's also running for class president, sits on the women's rights awareness group, and helps out at the school's rotary club.
But despite all these activities, she still worries about failure, getting into a good college and making family members proud. And these have led to chronic stomach pain that she says her doctor has linked to stress.
[For more of this story, written by Jacquie Lee, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/ed...w-lets-talk-about-it]
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