What's driving poor mental health among young Australians? We asked them

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Many of Australia's young people are anxious, lonely and sad, according to the ABC's National Survey. Here's what five young Australians think is driving the trend.

ABC Rural: Kathleen FergusonAfter her own personal experience with mental illness, Sally Downie became a mental health advocate for young people in regional and rural Australia.

"I saw the stress and impact it had on my family, particularly my parents, and I was worrying about them," she says. "I had to learn to keep well outside of hospital, and deal with the services that are available in regional Australia," she said. Sally says the limited mental health services available outside of Australia's major cities was an enormous challenge for young people living regionally.

 

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Spoiled by compliments since kindergarten, overprotected by a system requires no responsibility before 18, their mental health (if thats even a thing) will only get worse

Little to no resilience, and an over indulged sense of entitlement.

I grew up in the 80s, wasn't even aware of how I felt, what was depression? Comparison is the thief of joy. I never had access to comparison.

There is a known rise in allergies so more kids are taking antihistamines without been warned about the side effects. This is why we don't seek the truth in moronic surveys from a volunteer cohort. Patients rarely can tell you causes of what is wrong. 🙄

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Looking at their bloody phones all day and narcissistic self-absorbed selfies?

ClimateChangeHoax ? Their parents? Watching And reading ABC news ? that would be enough to screw with anyone's mental health

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Being forced to watch Al Gores , An Inconvenient Truth at school & their teachers telling them it was real 😪.

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