What Is Mental Health? For Kids

Mental Health Series For Kids https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIMTIqfbTygLJrNOWIEHIJvTmUeg4mf4z

I’m starting a new series next month all about mental health, for mental health awareness month. This video is a little introduction to the theme of what mental health is, and what it means to have mental health issues. I also want to explain in this video why I think it’s important to explain mental health issues to kids, because some people might think it’s inappropriate.

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The first thing that I want to talk about is something I have already referenced- whether or not it is appropriate to talk to children about mental health. I think my definition of mental health will be highly useful in revealing the answer to this question. Mental health is the way you feel about yourself and the world around you. For example, are you frustrated with other people? Are you happy with how you’re doing at school? Clearly you can feel different ways about different things, mental health is not a one size fits all type thing. So for example you could be looking forward to the summer, but at the same time stressed about homework. Tending however, to feel a certain way about most things, all or most of the time, is where we get to specific mental health disorders like Anxiety, which I will talk about later in this video, as well as specifically in the series.

This is my definition of mental health, and I hope that from it you can see that everybody has it, you can’t help having it and thus everybody should know about it if it goes wrong, or if it’s a bit different. We teach children about crossing the road because they all need to know how to avoid the dangers. Why is mental health any different? This is not to say that I want to talk to children about the grisly details of specific mental health disorders, just as people talking about road safety don’t go into the specifics of car crash injuries. In this series I simply hope to give an overview of a few conditions, so that if a child recognizes them in themselves or somebody close, they feel the confidence to tell somebody. As well as this, I think these videos could be useful for a parent if they spotted the symptoms in their children. So in this sense my series is less for kids, than it is for everybody.

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRYEhroa19A_nOzpITRySJA2Ua9hoBQxzh7rUs1XeGrtyRMY2jsR0J1-zs5dW2UqilK0QcmL-lfKFUB/pub

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