More than a third of young Australians experienced mental health disorder in past 12 months

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."

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