#supporting teenagers mental health

[dbisociety]

How to Help Young Minds: A Youth Mental Health First Aid Guide

Youth Mental Health First Aid: A Guide to Supporting Young Minds “Let’s support our young people in prioritizing their mental health and well-being. #YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters” As a society, we’re becoming increasingly aware of the importance of mental health. However, mental health issues among young people are often overlooked or misunderstood. Youth mental health first aid is a…

[zee-rambles]

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When you notice that something is off about your twin.

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[huellitaa]

"im so ocd" "im getting ocd" babe you saw a pen in the wrong spot and put it back to its original position. ocd is not perfectionism

[donniesexceptionalmind]

Do you have any coping mechanisms when you are overstimulated?

P.S. LONG LIVE DISASTER TWINS!!

I do.

And yes, it is completely fine if you forget to cope.

I forget it a lot.

Here's a list:

Listening to music to tune out environmental noise

Wearing sunglasses - the phrase 'wow it's so loud, I need my sunglasses' fits quite well: tuning out one sensory input can help to endure the non-stop information from the other senses

Rocking/swaying, using fidgets - ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN STIMMING

Not verbally speaking, especially if it hurts or takes too much effort (maybe texting instead)

Retreating to my safe space (my lab)

Sleeping if I am able to (laughs in insomniac)

Cling to Raphael

Using my weighted blanket to cover myself (or let Raph deep pressure hug me)

Important take:

Don't forget to stim. 💜

[my-life-my-stories-my-love]

So I have something called slipping rib syndrome. That means that I was born with floating rib and then suffered a chest trauma that caused my ribs to move or “slip” out of place and aggravate the surrounding nerves. This is extremely painful and relatively unheard of.

It took me 13 doctors and nurses to get diagnosed and when I finally was it was by a medical student. Everyone told me it was all in my head and I just had anxiety and needed to go to school. I was also told when pointing out a lump near my ribs (which turned out to be my slipping ribs sticking out) that I was just skinny.

I ended up missing 148 days of school due to the pain because some days I couldn’t even get out of bed let alone walk across my high school huge ass campus.

The worst part is this is normal for slipping rib syndrome in teenagers and younger children. The surgeon I saw said that my story of the multiple doctors and nurses and being told it was in my head was common and he heard that story all the time from his patients.

I don’t know what is happening to the medical field but not everything is in people’s head and it pays off to take them seriously. I cannot even begin to count the number of people I know who can say that doctors and the medical field generally suck and that they aren’t taken seriously. Especially with women and teenagers and it’s such bullshit. Everyone should be taken seriously when it comes to the physical and mental care no one knows you better than yourself. And I know some people genuinely have their medical issues come from within the head/brain but that should still be taken seriously and not brushed off.

Medical professionals please take note and take your patients seriously. And NEVER dismiss them and refuse to listen and provide options for treatment and testing.

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

[anathebananza]

hi, i don't usually make posts on the internet but i'm a bit desperate and i want to ask a question. i have a very long history with mental health issues(since i was like in 1st grade, i'm in 9th grade now). my parents try their best but they're extremely unstable like me and they just don't really care anymore(my dad especially. he doesn't really love me much anymore. he stopped when i became like 12) i try not to be a nuisance and i do chores and stuff. i've been sad for a very long time and i cry for hours every day. i've tried therapy but it just doesn't help, and i'm just wasting my parents time and money(my dad complains a lot and tells me a lot of stuff is my fault which i think he's right). is there any hope for me and do i deserve love and are there kind people in the world who will be nice to me? sorry if this post is bad like i said i usually don't make posts

thank you for reading this and if anyone would like to be friends id love that

[analuvsyouxo]

My friend does these "well-being queries" where she asks how we're feeling, why, if she can do anything and just asks about what has recently been happening in our lifes and I think that's beautiful and we should all do this.

[mamawasatesttube]

opinion on greta?

hmmm... mixed feelings. i liked her backstory and i thought her situation was pretty sympathetic and interesting, but her actual characterization and the way she interacted with all the others fell flat to me. it felt like they kept kinda shoving her into unpleasant Jealous Girl™ tropes and then having her lash out at her friends because of her own traumas and insecurities, but failed to balance any of that out with her actually being a good friend or caring about anyone other than tim, who she pinned way too much of her own mental health onto. which i mean is definitely an understandable thing for a traumatized teenager to do, but the narrative also didn't really let the others have reactions to any of that beyond kind of just oh haha that's how greta is! because a lot of it (like her fixation on tim, or constantly forgetting about bart after he and tim both left the team and kon always reminding her bart also left, not just tim) was sorta played silly or as a gag more than actual character interaction.

in my rich inner universe, she actually gets to have more moments of genuine friendship with the others and isn't constantly characterized as self-absorbed. like don't get me wrong a self-absorbed teenage girl who lashes out at everyone in response to her trauma IS realistic and also makes a good character, but she doesn't make a character that i think would be able to form lasting and healthy bonds with the other traumatized teenagers around her if that's always happening, and i really want them all to be able to form long-lasting and healthy bonds, so in my head she's written with more balance. because i DO really like her character concept (ghost girl with some FUCKED family backstory and a crisis of conscience because she is literally dead and can't process that? i love it) but i wish a lot of the execution didn't sorta blame the rest of the team, all also kids themselves, for not being able to fix her mental health problems. like the narrative didn't 100% blame them but it did kinda have them more apologetic for it than i would've liked, and i wish the overall handling of her crisis was just... not quite like that.

[tears-and-bows]

Please Get Help If You Need It Loves, You Won’t Care About How Cute You Look When You’re In A Coffin.

~(These will only work in the US)

Eating disorders:

* National Eating Disorders Association Helpline: 800-931-2237 (talk or text)

* National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) eating disorders helpline: 888-375-7767

Self-harm:

* S.A.F.E. Alternatives (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) self-harm helpline: 800-DONT CUT (800-366-8288)

Suicide:

* The Crisis Text Line (crisistextline.org) is a 24/7, nationwide crisis-intervention text-message hotline.[77]

* The Crisis Text Line can be reached by texting HOME to 741–741.~

Stay As Safe As You Can xx.

[zee-rambles]

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“He wanted to get better.”

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[donniesexceptionalmind]

I looked up your blog and nothing came up 💀 had a minor heart attack cuz I thought you blocked me-

Overthinking be like:

🐉

I would not block you.

But I had a similar experience months ago:

I had a meltdown about my broken phone because I was convinced to have lost all my music & access to all this. Which was an overreaction, but you can not imagine how much comfort music gives me. It's my safe space & I need it. Desperately.

A reminder: taking the phone of your child or friend can lead to an immediate negative effect on their mental health. I am aware that parents do it because they are angry or mean well, but often, it is not good.

[angelo-the-doctor-of-feelings]

ANGELO!! Guess what~

I got around to blocking people that gave me a hard time mentally aka toxic friends :DDDDDD

Are ya proud of me? I was nervous that they would see because I’m an empath~

I'm very proud!!! 🧡

You deserve people around you who treasure you & not bring you down.

It's valid to block people who damage your mental health. You are allowed to care for yourself!

🧡🌟🧡🌟🧡🌟

[lifethrulen]

I haven’t posted in a minute

not sure if anyone is reading

or if anyone cares

but if anyone does

I got bad in January and today I asked for help

which is something I never wanted to do

but I did

although it feels like I have to start again

I’m glad I asked

because I don’t want to keep drowning in it

3-20-24 10:10 PM

[bellehaspurplehair]

[thealicedovey]

❤️‍🩹 Suicide Prevention Month ❤️‍🩹