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The Relation Between Youth and Mental Health

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2.1 Fear failure issues

Different kids have different reaction or feel for failure, which mainly decided by their psychological endurance. In general, poor psychology bearing capacity is easy to form a sense of frustration. Under the fear of failure, children trend to be escape (Bryan, 1989). They escape world to avoid failure, and all day in fantasy, and unwilling to face the reality. Unfortunately, if they escape more time, the inferiority will be heavier. Finally, they will completely lost confidence. And they would like to use unconventional to make a cover for their fear of failure. For example, some learning bad children would like to wear fancy clothes with exaggerated manners and bizarre behaviour, to create a false pride sense to cover up their fear for learning failures truth. Another reaction is children aggressive behavior, few children learn to drink, fight, make self mutilation, using these way to cover their psychological fear of failure.

2.2 Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Children's obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental disorder, and it has many kinds of symptoms. According to the study, 1/3~ 1/2 Adult OCD patients comes from childhood (Riddle, 1990). And these children trend to suffer obsessive-compulsive disorder between the average age of 9 and 12 years old, so people should pay more attention to this age kids (Riddle, 1990). Children compulsive thinking is always repeat pointless questions or words, such as "Why go crosswalk ". These ideas are not willing to their own, they can spend hours wondering. Obsessive behavior forced to wash their hands, or forced to wear cloths again and again, or redo all kinds of rituals such as locking doors many times. Obsessive behavior forced to repeatedly count the number of repeated poles, floors, and steps. They cannot be enforced without these thinking or action, and cannot make these words or thinks out of their brain. So they feel upset, worry, pain, and even depression. Although OCD is not severe mental illness, but this makes kids difficult to learn and listen. Like a snake entangled their feet, it difficult to move forward under repeated interference.

2.3 Internet addiction

Children control ability is weak, and easily hooked on computer games and the Internet. This situation makes teenagers psychosomatic fatigue. As a long time to focus on the computer with excited mind, so the sleep will affected, and it will occur headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain (Kim, 2008). Long time fixed sitting will arouse limb numbness, muscle atrophy, myopia, and a variety of movement disorders. Long-term acceptance of computer radiation is also extremely unfavorable for young people at puberty. Obsessed teenagers in the computer also generates gap with parents, relatives and friends and produces a state of isolation, appears interpersonal barriers and personality deviation.

2.4 Social phobia disorder

The social phobia is a common childhood mood disorders, and it will bring serious impact on children's physical and mental health. Serious difficulties in social interaction also calls social interaction phobia which is manifested when dealing with people except families, they cannot control their fear, and express nervousness, sweating, flushing, rapid heartbeat and other autonomic nervous (Beidel, 2007). Social interaction difficulties make them far away from teachers, students, and peers that will lead to estrangement and distance, and inner helplessness, pessimism and irritability.

3. Kids Mental Health Communities Propaganda

As mentioned in before paper, many kids are suffering mental health, kids face high potential risk of mental illness, and they are hard to dig themselves out of mental issues by their own. Youth also come with a range of resources and strengths, resilience, resourcefulness, and adaptability Youth should aim to enhance young people’s quality of life, protect them from mental harm and ensure a good transition process into adulthood (Hernán, 2016).. The writer, as a young man, as one of the youth, has the duty to lend a helping hand.

Therefore, the writer will hold a team and choose to do the following action:

·Conduct Communities Propaganda

3.1 Build a team

The writer will call 3-5 classmates who are also care about Kids mental health. This youth team will focus on try to reduce the potential risk of kids suffering mental illness, and also call parents and residents do actions for mental illness kids. After the basic kids mental health materials outreach advocacy, the writer would hold a Kids mental health care lecture.

3.2 Preparation work

Firstly, these youths will start to do survey of several large local communities, supermarkets, and amusement parks, looking for transport interchange intersection between several large communities. The mobile propaganda studio’s address will be selected in the populated communities, large communities’ traffic intersection, supermarket, and amusement park entrance which have a lot of kids and teenagers. The propaganda time will be arranged in the weekend, keep the community residents and children with ample time. The propaganda studio will be designed to build a 40 square meters mobile studio. Youths will carefully design advertising language and leaflets such as “take care of kids mental health is to care their future”. In addition, they need to prepare adequate promotional materials, advocacy videos, tables, chairs and other equipments. Youths should acquire the permission of the community management committee, the traffic police, the property, and other relevant authorized parties. To ensure that activities are in compliance with legal requirements.

The address of writer’s scheduled lecture will be arranged at the community meeting room. And it needs to invite kid's parents to attend the lectures in various forms before. Contact with nearby kindergartens and primary schools. One week in advance, youths will paste lecture notice in neighboring communities. Do network promotion by the local well-known websites and newspapers posting. The writer needs to seek at least two professional children psychological professors or experts to support him, and to do a serious review of the content of his lectures.

3.3 Activities contents

In the morning of Saturday, youths will work for distributing advocated materials to parents and

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