Over-exercise can harm the body and cause low mood, mood swings, anxiety, and fatigue. It can be an unhelpful coping mechanism that makes problems worse while avoiding confronting the real causes of emotional distress.
Social media has a big influence on most young people’s lives. Teenagers and young adults often spend several hours a day on social media, sharing information and photos, looking through other people’s posts, and communicating with comments and messages.
Adolescents and young adults with eating disorders also tend to perceive their own bodies as different to their ‘ideal’ body shape. These ideals are typically unrealistic and unhealthy for most people. In general, women idealise a small body and low body weight, while men may idealise a muscular and lean body shape.
Mental health disorders are common in Mexico. Around 40% of young people may have had a mental health disorder in the past year, affecting their
Eating disorders are often thought of as a type of ‘internalising problem’ that is rooted in difficult emotions and unhelpful coping mechanisms. They’re linked to feelings of low self-esteem, perfectionism, and interpersonal problems, traits that may be shaped by parents’ attitudes and behaviours.
Divorce and unhealthy parental relationships can have a profound effect on young people. They’re linked to emotional and behavioural mental health problems both during adolescence and young adulthood. This means that supporting parents undergoing conflict – and helping young people manage its consequences – should be a priority.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental health disorder that affects the way a young person sees themselves and interacts with the world around them. Young people with BPD often have an unstable or incoherent sense of self, patterns of unstable relationships, and intense emotional reactions. They may experience chronic feelings of emptiness and a fear of abandonment by others.
Dissociative experiences often happen when someone is exposed to a traumatic event. When someone experiences trauma, they may be overwhelmed by stress and detach, in some way, from their experience, emotions, and/or body. People who have experienced acute trauma often describe dissociating from their bodies and watching something happen to themselves.
Despite the mental health epidemic among adolescents and young adults, only a minority access treatment. Barriers to treatment are often institutional: in many places, specialist services do not exist, or spaces are lacking with long waiting lists. But many young people don’t seek help for mental health problems in the first place. Studies suggest that only 18-34% of young people with mental health disorders try to access professional support.
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