World Mental Health Day 2018 – Young people and mental Health in a Changing World!

Challenges that young people face:

• bullying
• internet
• gender issues
• academic pressures
• career challenges
• psychoactive substance use/ Drugs
• sexual abuse/threat
• relational issues
• quicker onset into adulthood
• cyber crimes – blackmail, sexual threats
• peer pressures
• need for financial independence
• unattainable virtual world  demands
• gaming addiction
• pornography addiction