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families, school authorities, and our
society is important for the mental growth of teenagers. Based on their living
conditions, stigmatisation, discrimination, and exclusion teens nowadays face, or
the lack of quality support and service, they face higher risks of being diagnosed

with mental disorders.

Mental disorders among teenagers are often caused by excessive pressure they
A Talk on
A Talk on face in daily life. These pressures come from various aspects. Some teens suffer
from overloading pressure. If mishandled, it may cause anxiety or aggressive
Mental Health
Mental Health behaviour. Helping teenagers nourish ways of enhancing their stress management
abilities and providing them with options on ways to face the pressure they’re
dealing with might decrease their despondency.

On 6th June 2022, the Kuen Cheng High given. Major depressive disorder is the

School Psychology Club organised a most common mental disorder faced According to Dr. Chong, there are several ways to reduce stress. Stress-relieving
talk regarding mental health, jointly by mankind, to the extent that 2.3% of actions include regular workouts and diets, self-confidence development, avoiding
by Dr. Chong Shue-Ling and Mr. Tan Malaysian adults are at risk of being excessive intake of caffeine, etc. Developing emotional intelligence at a young age,
Zong Yan. The purpose of holding the diagnosed with depression. and providing youths with psychological support, also help in improving their

talk was to raise students’ awareness of mental health.
depression, to prevent discrimination, Dr. Chong started her talk with the
and to also nourish better mental topic of health issues faced by teenagers Next, Mr Tan talked about how to identify mental health problems. According to
quality, since prevention should start nowadays. In 2019, over 1.5 million Mr Tan, we can identify them by observing symptoms as shown below in terms of

from understanding the topic. teenagers died due to mental disorders. emotions, thinking and behaviour.
Having depression is one of the main
Mr. Tan started the session with some reasons why teenagers nowadays
questions thrown to the participants commit suicide.

as an icebreaker. From these questions,
we know that not all who are mentally A major issue that many countries
ill are violent. These patients face face is excessive drinking at too early
difficulties in handling their emotions, an age, as it reduces self-control

so they might use violence instead. and causes dangerous behaviours
However, we should know that these of these teenagers. Cannabis, also
patients are victims, and that they known as Marijuana or “Mary Jane”,
can’t control their behaviour. Some TV is a psychoactive drug that is widely

programmes or movies picture patients used even by teenagers. In 2018,
with mental illness as monsters, which approximately 4.7% of teenagers of
leads to misunderstandings. ages 15 and 16 had used it at least once.
Drug misuse at an early age is highly

More so, we know that these mental risky, which will result in reliance on
illnesses aren’t permanent. Most of them drugs during adulthood.
can be cur ed as long as cooperation is The environment created by supportive

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