What if someone told you that your child was suffering from a mental health disorder? How would it feel knowing that children and teens are suffering every day simply because they did not have proper emotional support? A mental health crisis is impacting millions of young people today, such as depression, anxiety, and behavioral disorders. […]
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“I’m hungry, I’m cold, and I have nowhere to rest my head comfortably before school,” said any homeless kid in our nation’s capital. Unfortunately, kids in the United States aren’t going to receive a quality education. Instead, they cannot focus on school because they are thinking about their next home or meal. Because students can’t […]
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Have you ever gone through a rough part of your life and felt like you couldn’t ask for help? Well, I’ve been through rough patches in my life. In the 6th grade, I was bullied, but I felt like I couldn’t tell the people I loved most in the world about it, not even my […]
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When I was younger, I always wondered why people struggle with mental health despite there being so many available resources. I’m growing up in a time where people are pretty open. They’ll talk to others about a mental illness they have struggled with, casually mention seeing a therapist, or say they had a mental breakdown […]
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Did you know that kids have shown more restlessness, irritability, anxiety, and clinginess since Covid-19 started? In 2020, when schools shut down, kids lost social skills. To solve this, parents can let kids know they can open up, or that therapy is an option if they don’t want to open up to their parents. Kids […]
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Did you know that almost 50 million Americans have expressed symptoms of depression and other mental illnesses in the past year? This is why schools should hire more counselors and have daily check-ins with all students, even when students don’t show signs of anxiety or other mental illnesses. When I first learned more about depression, […]
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Over the past couple of months, our mostly conservative, white, cis-male Supreme Court has chosen to override the Constitutional right to abortion. They left it up to the states to decide on the laws for women and our bodies. The unsafe abortion rates and sexual violence leading to women being forced to carry pregnancies to […]
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The toxic beauty standards that social media and society expect from young people between the ages of 12 and 20 negatively affect their self-worth. Social media platforms such as Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter, and Facebook need to start taking responsibility by making a change in the negative influence they have on young minds. Secondly, society needs […]
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Imagine yourself as a student or teacher and the principal walks in and says one of your classmates or students has committed suicide. What are the feelings that hit you? Does your stomach drop? Does it feel like there isn’t enough air in the room? Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young […]
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September 23, 2019, is a day I’ll never forget. That’s the day one of my closest friends, who was like a brother to me, committed suicide. It was painful and surprising because there was never a dull moment with him. According to The Washington Post, 800,000 people commit suicide each year. This means countless families […]
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Mental health is a problem for adolescents and adults alike. Without mental wellness, people suffer from issues like anxiety, depression, lack of concentration, or eating disorders. Unfortunately, there are lots of teenagers who face these issues, and they lack support. I am well aware of this because I have dealt with this problem and found […]
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According to the US Census Bureau’s 2017 data, approximately 325.7 million people live in America, and an estimated 47.4 million of those people are African American. Black people make up about 14 percent of the population and 16 percent have a diagnosable mental illness (NAMI). Yet not only is there a stigma around mental illness […]
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