Mental Health Care - Introduced in Primary Schools.

I believe better mental health outcomes can be achieved if early intervention occurs. A barrier to mental health is financial and socioeconomic. Mental health should be provided at primary school, early care should prevent socialisation and stigma. Although it’s getting better, mental health still carry’s stigma and fear. People particularly males are less inclined to talk about problems. Yet we know that early expression is helpful. The poet William Blake in his A Poisoned Tree wrote, “ I was angry with my foe, I told it not, my wrath did grow; I was angry with my friend, I told it so, my wrath did end.” That applies with anything, sharing it or talking about it expresses and releases it. If addressed young, coping mechanisms and strategies can be learned. Teenage years are often fraught, study, exams, parental expectations and peer pressures. Teenage suicide rates are too high. There will always be a need for therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists, but early intervention will ameliorate this.