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Enlightened
- Apr 8, 2020
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I had a work colleague who is currently training to be a CBT therapist to work with children and teenagers who have mental health issues. In his new job he is working within the NHS children and teenagers mental health services as part of his training.
He is a very lovely man who genuinely cares for people. Before I left my job I managed to catch up with him.
I said to him "I have massive respect for people who want to work with those who have mental health issues as it is not easy but I would rather work in a job helping improving the system because the system plays a massive role in young people suffering mental health issues."
My colleague had an uncomfortable look on his face and said " ooooo that is discussion I don't want to get in to. I am working in the preventive side of things to prevent it getting worse."
The rise in mental illness espically suicide amoung the youth and people in their 20s is a symptom of a broken world.There is lots of pressure and issues facing teenagers and people in their 20s which adults in are failing to address and so unwilling to discuss.
These issues are the following bullying, increasing pressure to conform, the current state of the world, lack of support for young people who are abused and so much more.
- Bullying in schools is a huge problem with schools failing to take it seriously. So many young people have killed themselves because of bullying.
- Pressure to conform: there so much pressure on young people to conform especially girls to look a certain way. I struggled to fit in at school and I tell you now it was so isolating. I hated teenage years primarily for this reason. There is too much pressure to be successful so young. If you are young and successful society puts you on a pedestal, if you are not young and successful society looks down upon you. Parents contribute to this culture of high expectations.
-Abused children don't always get the help they need, look at the sad case of Amber peat in the UK. Social services is broken.
Mordern life and this world just is not worth living. We live in a poisonous world if people struggle to find their place in this world then you will have a situation where opting out of society looks appealing. Why should young people participate in a world and society doesn't value them?
It's not enough having kind hearted therapists. What we need is to fix our world. But nobody wants to be grown up enough to discuss this. It is so sad.
He is a very lovely man who genuinely cares for people. Before I left my job I managed to catch up with him.
I said to him "I have massive respect for people who want to work with those who have mental health issues as it is not easy but I would rather work in a job helping improving the system because the system plays a massive role in young people suffering mental health issues."
My colleague had an uncomfortable look on his face and said " ooooo that is discussion I don't want to get in to. I am working in the preventive side of things to prevent it getting worse."
The rise in mental illness espically suicide amoung the youth and people in their 20s is a symptom of a broken world.There is lots of pressure and issues facing teenagers and people in their 20s which adults in are failing to address and so unwilling to discuss.
These issues are the following bullying, increasing pressure to conform, the current state of the world, lack of support for young people who are abused and so much more.
- Bullying in schools is a huge problem with schools failing to take it seriously. So many young people have killed themselves because of bullying.
- Pressure to conform: there so much pressure on young people to conform especially girls to look a certain way. I struggled to fit in at school and I tell you now it was so isolating. I hated teenage years primarily for this reason. There is too much pressure to be successful so young. If you are young and successful society puts you on a pedestal, if you are not young and successful society looks down upon you. Parents contribute to this culture of high expectations.
-Abused children don't always get the help they need, look at the sad case of Amber peat in the UK. Social services is broken.
Mordern life and this world just is not worth living. We live in a poisonous world if people struggle to find their place in this world then you will have a situation where opting out of society looks appealing. Why should young people participate in a world and society doesn't value them?
It's not enough having kind hearted therapists. What we need is to fix our world. But nobody wants to be grown up enough to discuss this. It is so sad.
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