Sometimes young people with mental health problems get better. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they get better but then they get worse. Holly Bourne explores OCD and relapse in her new book Am I Normal Yet?
One in 10 young people will experience a mental health problem before the age of 15.
In your adolescence years – when you’re supposed to be only worrying about exams, first kisses, and how to smuggle your parents’ stolen gin on to the Year Nine residential trip – one in 10 teens are instead fighting uncontrollable urges to repeatedly check things, or feeling petrified at the thought of leaving the house, or scratching their arms open, or starving themselves, or even contemplating taking their own lives.
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