I never ended up on out-of-work benefits, partly because I had an employer who did more for me than most would bother to, and also because I always assumed that at some point I would be well enough<\/a> to work consistently. I\u2019d never really contemplated that my diagnosis meant I should just give up. The message that many young people seem to have taken, though, is that mental ill health is a destination, not something you might pass through, or at least learn to manage.\u00a0<\/p>\n This, though, is also a rational reaction to the environment these young people have lived in for the past 10 years. When I fell ill, we were still being treated to the \u201cit\u2019s good to talk\u201d mantras. But much like a conversation with an inebriated Christmas partygoer, those slogans didn\u2019t have much more depth: while the discourse about mental health \u2013 particularly moderate illness rather than severe, psychotic illnesses that lead to people being sectioned \u2013 has ballooned, the help available hasn\u2019t. So reach out for help \u2013 but then find there is a waiting list so long that it has been closed for new applications.<\/p>\n You might not have to suffer in silence, but you still won\u2019t be able to talk to a professional about your suffering for a year, by which time your condition may well have worsened significantly. No wonder young people, who may have grown several inches in height as they waited for the child and adolescent mental health services to respond to them, feel mental health is a destination. That\u2019s precisely the message we have given them: if you\u2019re ill, you won\u2019t get much help to get better.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tYour next read<\/p>\n
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