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Illness of your mood(such as depression or bipolar disorder), anxiety

disorders (such as obsessive-compulsive disorder), personality

disorders (such as narcissistic personality disorder), and psychotic

disorders (such as schizophrenia) are a few types of mental

disorders. Stress, childhood trauma, social isolation or loneliness,

experiencing discrimination or bullying, etc are all valid reasons

and causes of such mental disorders.

Day by day, I understand how important mental health is. In our

community, we teenagers get invalidated on a daily basis and the

older ones or even friends don’t really realize how it will affect us.

Apparently, everything we go through is just a phase and is all in

our heads. Things aren’t how they used to be, especially after we

kids got exposed to the social media field. When the pandemic

struck the world, I personally think it hit the pre-teens the most. We

were on our path to hitting puberty but then everything just shut

down so we didn’t get as much exposure as we were supposed to.

This shutdown of the world we had to go through led to many

students going downhill in their studies. This also increased the

number of students entering a state of

depression. People didn’t tend to

understand that they were trying their

hardest due to many circumstances

and they were just not able to reach the

expectations society had set for them. Now,

as we have seen how the number of suicides

increase immensely, it is about time society

prioritizes mental health like physical health.

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