更好的心理健康对话
有信心公开谈论心理健康。
Poem written by Angel Ryan, aged 16 years.
Dear Anxiety,
When they ask me what I am afraid of, I lie.
I can never expose you, never tell the truth about you for fear of speaking you into existence. You are my punisher and my captor, my tormentor, my torturer.
You are the little voice inside of my head telling me bad, bad things to do to myself, things I can't talk about for fear I'll forget who I am and turn into you.
You tell me we are one and the same, but I am not you. I would never hurt a child the way you have hurt me. I would never tell a young girl she is unlovable, or fat, or ugly, or crazy, or worthless.
But I am not afraid of them. I am afraid of the shadows of my mind of the twisted and warped reality I am living in. And I scream, because it is all in my head. I scream because none of it is real. I scream because you are clawing your way up my throat, stealing my voice, gouging out my eyes, eating away at the lining of my stomach, turning my bones to jello and my hair to dust, destroying, destroying, destroying, destroying, destroying, destroying.
ENOUGH.
I have had ENOUGH. I am not you.
I never was. I never will be.
This is only a body, and you are only a feeling, and I will rise above. I am above this, above you, above my thoughts, above it all.
And I will survive.
And I will love me.
And I will not let go.
心理健康：如何与我们交谈
Jacob Latham 19 岁时写的诗和照片。
你能想象在一个人满为患的房间里，却感到完全孤独吗？我可以，我们很多人都可以，但很少有人注意到。那么当你知道，如果你看到或如果你被告知，你会说什么，你会做什么。
不要问我们“你还好吗？”我们都倾向于撒谎，总是回复“我很好”，不要在别人面前与我们联系，这不是帮助的方式。
您可以询问我们是否愿意交谈，甚至只是倾听。只告诉我们真相，不要说谎。不要假装，如果您不明白，请告诉我们。当你不知道这种感觉是什么感觉时，不要说你明白。
告诉我们，如果我们想说话，你会听。告诉我们你是安全的。表明我们可以信任。请不要评判我们。
不要压力，不要推动，请相信我们。
我们的心理健康超出了我们的控制范围，因此 if we 已经与您交谈过，这比您知道的要多。所以表明我们做出了正确的决定，让您进入并让您看到。
不要给自己压力
一个14岁的年轻人写的。
当 I 在 8 年级时，我开始感到焦虑。学校老师给我施加了很大的压力来完成工作。我开始感到非常疲倦和不知所措。
学校的老师似乎没有注意到我的行为有所不同，但我的父母却注意到了。他们跟我谈了这件事并联系了学校，这很好。
然后学校给了我 an early pass 让我早点下课，所以我没有和所有人一起在人群中。 这有帮助。
我的朋友们提供了帮助，因为当我和他们在一起时，我不需要考虑或担心学校工作和压力。
现在我9岁了，我感觉比以前好多了。我仍然担心一些事情，比如通过模拟考试。
有时我仍然感到疲倦和不知所措，但我已经学会了 如何控制它。我更多地和朋友出去分散自己的注意力。
如果我可以告诉某人在这种情况下该怎么做，我会说不要给自己施加太大压力，因为那是我过去常做的事，现在我尽量不这样做。
I should have died - By Linda M
18 - didn't see it coming as I crossed the road - BANG. I didn't feel anything, I thought I was dead and so was my baby. suddenly I heard the voices and sounds and felt the pain. I was alive and so was my baby. People stare at me, my face is damaged, cuts, bruises, stitches. Comments - you make me feel sick, you're ugly. I stopped going out. I lost all my friends. The panic attacks are getting worse, if I hear a siren or a loud noise. 19 stuck in the house or the garden, if I go out I feel sick. I cover my face.
Someone came to help me look better. Looking better is okay, but I still want to die. 20 my partner left me he's fed up with it all. I've started to go out, the tablets help but I still want to die. 24 I live for my children, my life revolves around them. My family are my friends. I've a few friends that are like me, we support each other. 30 The children are grown up and I have a new love in my life. Plenty of make-up covers the scars, I have a great job, I can afford nice holidays. I still have panic attacks, should have died. 60 I should have retired instead I'm still working.
Since the accident, I have constant pain in my neck and lower spine, but I keep moving. Every morning I still paint a smile on my face, help others, speak at conferences, stand up for our rights. I'm still taking the pills and even a small thing can make me slide. But I'll get up and paint that smile on my face and tell myself that life is wonderful and I have a purpose.
65 In my head I'm still 16 and enjoying life. I am loved, people care, I care and I'm still working. When that dreaded feeling of death or anxiety comes over me I tell myself 'all is well in my world' I breathe deeply and let it all out, paint that smile on my face and see others smiling back. I'm glad I didn't die.
17岁年轻人的作品
有时，年轻人很难通过语言进行交流，相反，他们会尽可能地分享对他们来说重要的东西。