The kids are not all right: Australia’s mental health system is struggling and so are our young | Omar Khorshid
by Omar Khorshid from on (#5PMT9)
Amid Covid, young people are facing challenges unthinkable for their parents at the same age. Only a long-term commitment to fix the system can help them
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We've all been affected by the pandemic, but there are signs a mental health crisis among young people has arrived and is getting worse.
The latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data show in any given year, one in five Australians, or 20% of us, experience mental ill health.
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