Thrilled. I finished training and passed my final exam for youth mental health first aid. So much of my knowledge came from volunteering here and I passed with 100℅
Certificate is good for 3 years. I can’t counsel, but I can offer an ear, assess a situation to decide if it is a crisis, de-esculate if possible or contact emergency services.
I can coubsel on what type of help to reach out for, but not treatmebts
I’m not a mandatory reporter, so I have some wiggle room to allow a kid to talk about tough subjects.
i get treated like a child lots as well i think lots of people do with mentalillness like bc we are mentally ill we must have a mental age of 2 or something
I was eager to talk when I got sick at seventeen but no one ever talked to the kids in the adolescent ward. I could have avoided a world of pain had I talked early on. When I did have an ear at narcotics Anonymous I was too scared of what people would think to discuss fully my problems. I did not know my problems were things people almost always went through and I doubted them when they said so about the things I was willing to share.
