Forget FOMO, These Are The Signs Your Teen's Struggling With 'FOMU' Ahead Of Results Day

For an increasing number of young people, the anxiety goes beyond pre-results nerves.

With A-level and GCSE results days getting closer, the tension in many homes is starting to rise.

For an increasing number of young people, the anxiety goes beyond pre-results nerves. Welcome to FOMU: not ‘fear of missing out’, but ‘fear of messing up’.

Fear of messing up is not something teenagers are born with. Babies and toddlers are brilliant, relentless failers. They topple, stumble and babble their way through thousands of mistakes without a flicker of shame, because no one has yet told them that failing is something to dread.

That changes, though. Somewhere along the way, a telling look from a teacher, a disappointed sigh over a less-than-perfect mark, or the sting of coming second instead of first teaches children that mistakes are something to hide, not learn from.

By the time young people reach their GCSE and A-Level years, many have spent a decade absorbing the message that winners are celebrated while those who fall short are to be........

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