For the past few years, I’ve been running well-being workshops in schools and universities, both as someone who has experienced mental health problems myself and in my role as an ambassador for the charities SANE and Rethink Mental Illness. And something has started to bother me.
At the end of my sessions, adolescents come up to me, fluent in the language of mental health, and tell me they have a mental health condition – be that generalised anxiety disorder, or depression, or one of any number of personality disorders. But when I ask more about their diagnosis, it transpires that the only expert they have consulted is Dr Google.
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