Rise in young seeking help for mental illness

Friday, Jan 07, 2011. My Paper

As I read this article, I felt really sad because the world which started out with only people worrying about food and shelter. Till now, people are always worry about so many things like their job and if their family has any problems. People are under so much stress that it comes to an extent which there is even an increasing rate of people seeking help for mental illness. As quoted from the article, “Mental-health experts said that they have noticed a 10 per cent increase in the number of patients in their 20s coming forward to seek treatment over the past two years.” The world has turn out that even people at such a young age of just 20 plus years old are seeking help for mental illness with increasing trend now.

Being able to handle stress well is very important. People have to handle stress everyday but knowing how to handle is really important. If you do not handle stress well and let it take control over you, you might go berserk or getting mental illness such as depression. There are many ways in how to distress yourself such as exercising or reading a book to let your mind calm down. However, you would have to put in effort to manage your time well so that you would able to give yourself some ‘space’ by having some quiet time alone or spending some time with your family or friends. From this article, I wish it has serve as an alert to everyone that managing stress well is important and it is time to do something or so called a CHANGE in your life if you have always been under great stress. Reason being, if you are under immense stress but do not anything about it, it will take control of you and you would not want that to happen to you! Wish everyone here to be able to live your life in joy and to always be positive even as we face difficulties! :D

Felicia Tan

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