Warning over youth mental health
This is a terrible article.
One in 10 youngsters questioned in a survey disagreed that “life was really worth living”. Those not in work or education were less likely to be happy.
This is not necessarily a mental health issue.
Of those questioned, 29% said they are less happy now than they were as a child and one in five said they felt like crying “often” or “always”.
Fair enough, this fits with depression scales. But ‘less happy when they were a child’? So they were happier without bills, without money worries, without boyfriend/girlfriend issues, without responsibility? That would seem to fit that statistic.
Almost half (47%) said they were regularly stressed.
Means nothing. What precisely were they stressed about?
The Prince’s Trust says it plans to train all its frontline staff to recognise mental health problems
Which means over-diagnose probably.
And listen to the video there. The girl says that people need to be told what to think (!!) and that she was helped by talking about how lucky she was. Did she mention cognitive behaviour therapy? No, so she probably did not have that. What she says is she was reminded of what was nice so she doesn’t need her meds. Great. (This of course means her GP mis-diagnosed her or she had very mild depression.) Some parent or spouse somewhere is telling someone they are not depressed, they should be grateful for all the nice stuff in their life and they will expect this person to ’snap out of it’. This is hugely damaging and to expect a kid who has had the narrowest experience to answer for anything but her is stupid in the extreme.
The BBC gets worse and worse both in what they are posting on their site and the nonsense shows like Breakfast put out.
