What teens want their parents to know

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Parents sometimes live under the mentality "You have everything going good in your life, you should not be depressed or you should not be crying" . Most teens struggle and keep it on the inside and when we do let it out we get judged for it. - anonymous

Just because we spend 6-8 weeks in treatment, does not mean that our depression or what we struggle with is not going to go away instantly. Working with our Menatl Illness is going to take time , so please be paitent with us. - anonymous

When we take theese medications such as Anti-Depressants or Anti-psychotics, they can only help us so much. We as well have to put in 100% effort everyday to see improvements in our mental health. The medications do not do all of the work. Also medications take weeks or months for you to start seeing progress or inprovement.- anonymous