roachpatrol:

@ teens because i’ve gotten a lot of asks along the lines of ‘i think i’ve got depression/anxiety/a personality disorder but my parents and teachers and counsellors just say it’s teen angst and won’t help and won’t get me to a therapist and i’m so tired and scared’. 

your primary emotional state should not be exhaustion, sadness, fear, or stress. seriously, even if you’re an adolescent. ‘teen angst’ is an awful dismissal of how emotional distress is a natural human reaction to the circumstances we force teens into: long work hours, few rewards, routine privacy invasion, unjust punishments, gruelingly unhealthy sleep schedules and food, and rigid prison-like social systems.

in addition to this, somewhere between half and three-fourths of mental illnesses show up before age 18. this leaves tons of people struggling for years to manage symptoms, alone, until they’re adults and it stops being so ‘normal’ for them to be miserable. or, you know, they treat themselves with drugs, abusive relationships, or suicide, and then everyone is like ‘why did this happen???’. 

you are not supposed to be in constant pain. you’re not even supposed to be in frequent pain. take your mental health seriously.