When a teenager tells you about their mental health issues you have to listen to the expert – themselves | Saretta Lee

I try to use my training and experience to consider a young person's story against the evidence in mental health research

• The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work

I am an expert". At least in the sense that as a specialist medical doctor in mental health I am asked to give expert advice, included in expert advisory groups, and if I give evidence in court, it's taken as expert evidence.

But when I see young people in my day-to-day work to help them with their mental health it becomes evident to me who the real experts" are.