Survey about the stigma associated with mental health in young people

Calling all young people, parents and those who work with young people................we need your help.

Feeling depressed, worried, anxious – these are all mental health problems....but:

Some young people and their families have described the experience of stigma associated with mental health problems as at least equal to and sometimes worse than having a mental health problem.

How does this statement make you feel? Do you think this is fair?

What this means is that some young people won’t go and get help for their problem, they just suffer in silence. Would we do this if it was a physical health problem like breaking our arm? It’s very unlikely, yet for mental health problems, people do.

We are currently working with Time to Change (please see http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/ ) to help develop their children and young people’s programme to tackle the stigma associated with mental health. We wondered if you would be happy to fill in an electronic survey for us, so that we can understand how young people think and feel about the subject.

Getting your views is the most important part to making sure that this programme gets it right for young people. We want the views of young people who have had mental health problems, and those who haven’t.

The link to electronic survey for your thoughts and opinions, is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/stigmainyoungpeople