Why we need to be honest about OCD and teen mental health

Sometimes young people with mental health problems but better. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they get better but then they get worse. Holly Bourne explores OCD and relapse in her new book Am I Normal Yet? Here’s why

Read the first chapter of Am I Normal Yet by Holly Bourne

One in 10 young people will experience a mental health problem before the age of 15.

In your adolescence years – when you’re supposed to be only worrying about exams, first kisses, and how to smuggle your parents’ stolen gin onto the Year Nine residential trip – one in 10 teens are instead fighting uncontrollable urges to repeatedly check things, or feeling petrified at the thought of leaving the house, or scratching their arms open, or starving themselves, or even contemplating taking their own lives.

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