Mental health problems among young people have increased by almost 50% in last 15 years
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“I always knew that I had this really bad feeling but I just thought that was normal,” Sam Tickle says. “I’d pull up in the bus to school and I just thought everyone got this disgusting feeling inside of you – the panic, basically.”
It wasn’t until 2021 when Tickle was diagnosed with anxiety and depression in year 11 that he understood he was living with a mental health disorder. “Anxiety in particular is something I’ve been suffering all my life, I just didn’t know I had it.”