Something I feel passionate about is the issue of youth mental health awareness in the US and talking about/ normalizing youth mental health awareness. Mental health awareness is an issue that affects everyone and is very difficult for youth to address and properly manage. Mental health disorders can also be commonly rooted in other daily social issues that people face and struggle with. Youth are more likely to be long term impacted by mental health because it affects developmental aspects of life such as social life, academic life and proper  In today’s society, mental health is frequently overlooked and has a large negative stigma around, especially for youth in this country with an environment of “boys don’t cry” and “when I was a kid we didn’t care about this stuff” as just some toxic examples of stigma around mental health. Along with the daily pressure of school, athletics, extracurriculars, social time, and the presence of social media, standards of living can be hard to achieve and live up to, mental health becomes increasingly difficult to take care of. This issue interests me because I know lots of people who are affected by mental health and suicide, and I believe very strongly with the idea that it is vital to end the stigma around mental health. The issue of youth mental health in this country is not something that will be solved in a day, but that is why working to end the stigma is vital to this social issue. 

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