What's the problem?
The problem I found in my community is that mental health students need ways to communicate with adults in their lives about their mental health. I think that students with mental health issues don't feel comfortable or safe when talking to the adults around them.
Why does this matter to me?
What's the importance of this?
Hi, I'm Angel Guinn and I am a mental health patient with General anxiety disorder and dysthymia, which is basically I’m anxious about most things and on top of that, if depression was a type of weather, it's always overcast, but it is not terrible and very manageable with help. As an APS student with this, I have had a total of 3 people who were teachers/ counselors who understood my needs and were actually helpful about it. If I have anxiety attacks only three people in the entirety of my school career would have ANY idea what to do.
This is a problem, and after I started going to counseling, I realized that a LOT of kids have very little to no supporting teachers, and the teachers don't know how to support us. Which causes a rift between teacher-student relationships and makes the average mental health student feel unsafe at school.
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Some facts about mental health in school age kids.
From the CDC: Childrens Mental health department
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7.1% of children ages 3-17 have been diagnosed with anxiety.
3.2% of children ages 3-17 have diagnosed depression.
Kids that have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression from the ages of 6–17 years increased from 5.4% in 2003 to 8% in 2007 and to 8.4% in 2011–2012.
To put these numbers in perspective we have 74.1 million children in the world and 1% is 741,000 Kids
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