Youth mental health and youth identity are Give Us The Floor main focuses all year long, but in January we will focus our discussions even more on mental health. Accepting and acknowledging our mental health struggles are crucial to getting better. Experiencing judgment or being labeled or put in boxes because of our struggles doesn’t help either. How can we fight the stigma of mental health issues and help society evolve? Approximately 20% of adolescents have a diagnosable mental health disorder and between 20% and 30% of adolescents have one major depressive episode before they reach adulthood.
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