:00:10. > :00:14.First up, one of the worst storms in years has hit parts of Australia,
:00:15. > :00:21.damaging buildings and leaving thousands of people without power.
:00:22. > :00:24.This is the moment a huge cyclone battered the North East
:00:25. > :00:31.With winds of up to 163mph and pounding rain, people think that
:00:32. > :00:34.Cyclone Debbie might be the worst to hit Australia since 2011.
:00:35. > :00:36.So far it has caused lots of damage to buildings,
:00:37. > :00:39.trees and roads in an area called Queensland, and it has left more
:00:40. > :00:50.In fact, Cyclone Debbie is so strong it's been labelled a Category Four
:00:51. > :00:57.That's only one level down from the strongest category.
:00:58. > :01:00.Australia's Prime Minister has reassured people
:01:01. > :01:04.that there are plans in place to keep people safe,
:01:05. > :01:06.and the authorities have encouraged around 25,000 people
:01:07. > :01:10.It's very clear that the time for people to move is now,
:01:11. > :01:17.More than 2,000 emergency workers are on stand by,
:01:18. > :01:19.ready to help those affected by the cyclone, but the authorities
:01:20. > :01:21.won't know how much damage Cyclone Debbie has caused,
:01:22. > :01:30.Now we all feel angry, worried or sad at times.
:01:31. > :01:34.But when those feelings start affecting our daily lives, it can be
:01:35. > :01:41.It's thought one in ten kids suffers from one.
:01:42. > :01:43.They're harder to spot than other health problems
:01:44. > :01:49.Many people find it really hard to talk about mental health.
:01:50. > :01:52.Newsround has made a special film about it which is on CBBC right
:01:53. > :02:07.I am Josh, I am 14 and I love playing hockey.
:02:08. > :02:11.I am just like you, except for one thing. I have a mental health
:02:12. > :02:17.problem. Mental health is big news right now.
:02:18. > :02:21.Everyone is talking about it. Mental health Mental health.
:02:22. > :02:26.Newspapers. Celebrities. Ho fissions. Even royalty. It is OK
:02:27. > :02:29.to suffer but as long as you talk about it. So you would think it
:02:30. > :02:34.would be easy for me and thousands of children like me. To open up
:02:35. > :02:39.about our problems. It's not. I didn't tell anyone how I was feeling
:02:40. > :02:42.for over a year and things got pretty bad.
:02:43. > :02:45.Now I want to find out why it is so hard to talk about mental health
:02:46. > :02:51.problems and what is being done to make it better.
:02:52. > :02:53.This is inside my head, a Newsround special.
:02:54. > :02:56.And finally, author Michael Rosen who wrote "We're Going
:02:57. > :02:58.on a Bear Hhunt" has been talking about mental health too.
:02:59. > :03:01.He's been telling us how he coped after his son died.
:03:02. > :03:03.When he was nearly 19, my son Eddie died.
:03:04. > :03:10.But I didn't really talk about it a lot.
:03:11. > :03:15.For quite a long time it was kind of bottled up inside me.
:03:16. > :03:26.I wanted people to know that I was sad, but at the same time,
:03:27. > :03:30.I didn't know how to say it, so in a funny sort of way
:03:31. > :03:32.I didn't want them to know, because that feels kind of weak.
:03:33. > :03:36.One day somebody said to me - it was a child, actually -
:03:37. > :03:38.and said, "What became of the Eddie who is in your poems?",
:03:39. > :03:41.and I suddenly had to say what happened to Eddie.
:03:42. > :03:45.So in front of a big audience of people I said, "Eddie died."
:03:46. > :03:49.And then the moment I said that, it gave me the courage
:03:50. > :03:54.to write the things down, and so that is what I did.
:03:55. > :03:58.And I even drew a picture - I drew a funny squiggly picture
:03:59. > :04:02.of me grinning like that, and saying "This is me looking sad."
:04:03. > :04:13.In a funny sort of way, I felt free, and I felt better.
:04:14. > :04:17.I could sort of feel good that I had said that I feel bad.
:04:18. > :04:20.I know that sounds weird, but that is actually how I felt.
:04:21. > :04:24.So maybe if you wrote something down, you wrote something
:04:25. > :04:29.down about how you feel, and maybe if you showed somebody
:04:30. > :04:31.that, that way we can help each other, can't we.
:04:32. > :04:33.Sometimes we have really strong feelings.
:04:34. > :04:36.If you feel like that, it really is important to find
:04:37. > :04:42.somebody who you can talk to, somebody you can trust.
:04:43. > :04:49.Getting help early, quickly, very soon, can make a big difference.
:04:50. > :04:53.But stay watching CBBC for our programme all
:04:54. > :05:00.Here's "Inside My Head - A Newsround Special."
:05:01. > :05:05.I'm Josh, I'm 14 and I love playing hockey.
:05:06. > :05:08.I'm just like you, except for one thing -
:05:09. > :05:27.It's OK to suffer, but as long as you talk about it.
:05:28. > :05:29.So, you'd think it would be easy for me,
:05:30. > :05:38.I didn't tell anyone how I was feeling for over a year,
:05:39. > :05:43.Now, I want to find out why it's so hard to talk about
:05:44. > :05:49.mental health problems, and what's being done to make it better.
:05:50. > :05:54.This is Inside My Head - A Newsround Special.
:05:55. > :05:57.I know what it's like to feel all alone,
:05:58. > :05:59.and that you can't talk about mental health problems.
:06:00. > :06:01.I couldn't tell anyone how I was feeling,
:06:02. > :06:04.because I didn't know what was happening to me.
:06:05. > :06:08.I DON'T want any of you to go through what I did.
:06:09. > :06:16.to find out how we can make it easier to talk about mental health.
:06:17. > :06:20.We all stress about stuff, get sad, angry and worried at times.
:06:21. > :06:23.That's normal. But for people with mental health problems,
:06:24. > :06:32.and begin to affect our lives in all sorts of ways.
:06:33. > :06:34.If you break your arm or catch a cold,
:06:35. > :06:41.But mental health problems are much harder to spot,
:06:42. > :06:44.because they start up here, inside our heads,
:06:45. > :06:47.and affect how we think, feel, our behaviour,
:06:48. > :07:05.Mine is called OCD - obsessive-compulsive disorder.
:07:06. > :07:08.When I was 11, I started to worry about bad things happening,
:07:09. > :07:15.and the only thing that made me feel better was washing my hands.
:07:16. > :07:25.I didn't think anything was wrong, I just thought I was a bit odd.
:07:26. > :07:28.I found myself needing to write every three lines,
:07:29. > :07:32.and certain numbers really freaked me out.
:07:33. > :07:35.People at school noticed and asked me what I was doing.
:07:36. > :07:42.because I didn't understand what was happening to me.
:07:43. > :08:05.I was obsessed about objects being in the right place in my bedroom.
:08:06. > :08:15.I'd check my room over and over again to make sure nothing moved.
:08:16. > :08:20.It was taking longer and longer to do my routine.
:08:21. > :08:26.and I had to do specific things in different rooms.
:08:27. > :08:33.I suddenly developed a fear of looking at my feet,
:08:34. > :08:38.and wore my trainers until they fell apart.
:08:39. > :08:42.It felt like I had two voices inside my head -
:08:43. > :08:45.the one that said, "You don't need to do these things,"
:08:46. > :08:48.and the louder, OCD voice, that was shouting, "Do it,
:08:49. > :09:08.The one place I felt safe was on the hockey pitch.
:09:09. > :09:25.Even if it was taking me hours to get there.
:09:26. > :09:28.After almost two years of feeling like this,
:09:29. > :09:33.I couldn't do all the normal things that I loved doing.
:09:34. > :09:39.I knew I had to do something and I decided to tell my dad.
:09:40. > :09:41.So, that morning that I came in to see you,
:09:42. > :09:45.Things had been getting increasingly worse,
:09:46. > :09:47.and I couldn't, sort of, handle the stress,
:09:48. > :09:49.and I almost got pushed to breaking point
:09:50. > :09:58.because it did make me feel so much better,
:09:59. > :10:02.and you want to get as much off your chest as possible,
:10:03. > :10:05.and it's just a whole weight off your shoulders.
:10:06. > :10:08.What were you most worried about before you told me?
:10:09. > :10:10.There is a worry how people will react,
:10:11. > :10:14.and there is that fear that no matter how well you know someone,
:10:15. > :10:18.how close you are to someone, that...
:10:19. > :10:24.they won't understand and you tell them and they will shut you down.
:10:25. > :10:26.I was so worried that if that was the case,
:10:27. > :10:30.I would get to the stage where I would never feel better,
:10:31. > :10:33.and that I would be on my own for the rest of my life.
:10:34. > :10:38.And because the problem was getting worse, so worried that there was...
:10:39. > :10:44.Because you don't want to face it alone, it's such a big problem,
:10:45. > :10:49.I couldn't handle it on my own, that's why I told you.
:10:50. > :10:51.So, were you worried that if you told someone
:10:52. > :10:54.and they didn't help you, you'd be more isolated?
:10:55. > :10:58.that you were the only person in the world with that.
:10:59. > :11:00.Yeah. You have to build up the confidence to do it,
:11:01. > :11:05.the thought of telling someone that you think you're going mad,
:11:06. > :11:09.or something's wrong, but what I don't think many people realise
:11:10. > :11:15...telling someone is only ever going to make the problem better,
:11:16. > :11:18.And it was so important that you did tell me,
:11:19. > :11:22.because although there were ups and downs afterwards,
:11:23. > :11:24.that probably was the moment where you...
:11:25. > :11:26.It's always good... ..started to get better.
:11:27. > :11:29...to have someone to talk to, because the moment you, sort of,
:11:30. > :11:31.let it all out, the moment you start to fully understand yourself,
:11:32. > :11:37.that having to keep it to yourself probably made it a lot worse.
:11:38. > :11:40.It made it a lot worse. Is that what it did for you?
:11:41. > :11:43.Yeah. It was always a lot worse when we didn't speak.
:11:44. > :11:53.'My mental health problem didn't just affect me,
:11:54. > :11:58.'it affected everyone close to me, especially my big brother Sam.'
:11:59. > :12:02.that I was suffering with a mental health issue?
:12:03. > :12:05.I think at first it was hard to understand,
:12:06. > :12:08.because I don't think you knew fully what was going on.
:12:09. > :12:15.And I think that was the hardest thing, because...
:12:16. > :12:18.not being able to communicate properly
:12:19. > :12:21.about the problem meant that a lot of times,
:12:22. > :12:27.and frustrated over an issue which you couldn't control.
:12:28. > :12:29.Mm. But then I couldn't try and help you,
:12:30. > :12:33.because we didn't know what it was, and it's something
:12:34. > :12:39.'Having the support of family and friends is so important when you're
:12:40. > :12:41.'dealing with a mental health problem.
:12:42. > :12:44.'My best friend Jamie was brilliant when I told her.'
:12:45. > :12:47.Did you first notice that something was wrong before I told you?
:12:48. > :12:51.Yeah, I would say, like, in our classes at school,
:12:52. > :12:55.when you got stressed, and you were often looking at the clock,
:12:56. > :12:58.you had your little head shake thing, and like,
:12:59. > :13:01.I, kind of, like, knew something was up, but I kind of accepted it as
:13:02. > :13:03.something that was going on with you.
:13:04. > :13:06.I was really worried at the time that you would judge me
:13:07. > :13:09.and not want to be my friend any more
:13:10. > :13:13.and think that I was a complete weirdo when I told you.
:13:14. > :13:18.I guess I just didn't really see it as something that we could ever,
:13:19. > :13:21.like, fall out about. Yeah. So, you didn't judge me or think...
:13:22. > :13:24."..I'm not hanging around with this guy who looks at clocks"?
:13:25. > :13:32.One in ten young people in the UK has a mental health problem.
:13:33. > :13:36.That's around three kids in every classroom.
:13:37. > :13:40.And one person who knows just what this is like is Lucy.
:13:41. > :13:42.During my time, I've heard a lot of things.
:13:43. > :13:45.However, something that really stood out to me was that
:13:46. > :13:48.I didn't look like I should have a mental health illness.
:13:49. > :13:53.I've come to meet her to find out how she's using her experience
:13:54. > :13:57.of mental health problems to change people's attitudes for the better.
:13:58. > :14:00.So, I was fully aware that I was suffering from depression
:14:01. > :14:04.and anxiety, and I accepted it, however hideous it was.
:14:05. > :14:07.One part of me was incapable of caring for myself.
:14:08. > :14:11.I couldn't eat, I couldn't wash, I couldn't function at all.
:14:12. > :14:14.Tell me a little bit about your story, what you've been through.
:14:15. > :14:18.Erm, so, I've suffered with depression and anxiety
:14:19. > :14:25.Depression is basically feeling really, really, really sad.
:14:26. > :14:27.You feel very worthless, you feel helpless.
:14:28. > :14:30.It stops you from doing what you want to do.
:14:31. > :14:34.Anxiety is feeling extremely nervous, worrying,
:14:35. > :14:37.for an extensive period of time, really.
:14:38. > :14:40.What made you want to decide to come into schools
:14:41. > :14:42.and share your story with other children?
:14:43. > :14:44.I think there's a lot of misconception
:14:45. > :14:47.around mental health problems, a lot of stigma and discrimination.
:14:48. > :14:50.So, I feel like it's my responsibility to come in
:14:51. > :14:55.give them the facts about what mental health is,
:14:56. > :14:57.so that they can have a better understanding.
:14:58. > :15:02.Yeah, stigma is having these negative attitudes towards people,
:15:03. > :15:08.And the word discrimination is when we act on this stigma.
:15:09. > :15:13.So, we might leave someone out, we might not be friends with someone,
:15:14. > :15:17.And that might prevent young people from going into school,
:15:18. > :15:23.it might make them feel quite isolated.
:15:24. > :15:25.So, we really need to change these things,
:15:26. > :15:28.so that young people can go out and reach their potential and do
:15:29. > :15:33.everything that they've set out to do.
:15:34. > :15:36.Any of you shocked or even surprised about what you heard today?
:15:37. > :15:42.I was shocked that one in ten people can get mental health issues.
:15:43. > :15:46.And I was basically shocked that lots of people are discriminated,
:15:47. > :15:50.Is it surprising that you find out that people like me
:15:51. > :15:52.and Lucy have mental health disorders?
:15:53. > :15:55.It is quite surprising, because when we see you now,
:15:56. > :15:58.you're all really confident, so we couldn't really imagine it of you.
:15:59. > :16:02.But when we hear your back story and how it affected you,
:16:03. > :16:11.'attitudes to mental health are slowly changing for the better.
:16:12. > :16:13.'Adults are becoming more aware of what children like us
:16:14. > :16:19.'are going through, and politicians are sitting up and taking notice.'
:16:20. > :16:23.but the Prime Minister has promised more help for children
:16:24. > :16:31.One person who's already making a difference
:16:32. > :16:37.to the lives of young people is Dr Radha from The Surgery on Radio 1.
:16:38. > :16:39.She believes getting help early is key.
:16:40. > :16:41.If you're worried about your mental health,
:16:42. > :16:43.then there are loads of people who can help.
:16:44. > :16:46.So, the best thing to do first is to tell an adult that you trust.
:16:47. > :16:50.That might be your mum, your dad, an aunt or uncle.
:16:51. > :16:53.It might be a teacher or a school nurse, for example.
:16:54. > :16:59.But also there are loads of other confidential helplines
:17:00. > :17:04.The most important thing to do is to seek help and to ask someone,
:17:05. > :17:11.and tell someone how you're feeling as soon as you can.
:17:12. > :17:14.'I've learnt from experience that you can't solve mental health
:17:15. > :17:18.'They're complicated, difficult things
:17:19. > :17:22.'that can make you feel like you're going mad.
:17:23. > :17:30.'But telling someone really can change your life.
:17:31. > :17:33.'When I told my dad, it was the best thing I ever did.
:17:34. > :17:35.'He helped me to get the support I needed,
:17:36. > :17:39.'and now I'm in control of my mental health.
:17:40. > :17:43.'And life has pretty much gone back to normal.
:17:44. > :17:48.'Even though it's been a long journey for all of us.'
:17:49. > :17:52.Sometimes you can believe, and you can think in your own mind, that,
:17:53. > :17:57.because I felt like someone had entered my head,
:17:58. > :18:01.and was pulling bits apart and changing all the wires around,
:18:02. > :18:07.But it's important to remember that it doesn't change who you are.
:18:08. > :18:09.Even when you're having difficulties,
:18:10. > :18:12.you're still the same person. Yeah.
:18:13. > :18:20.And I've always been really proud of the person you are.
:18:21. > :18:23.'I wish now that I'd said something sooner.
:18:24. > :18:31.'I don't want any of you to go through what I did.
:18:32. > :18:36.'So, please, if you're worried about how you're feeling - sad, angry,
:18:37. > :18:39.'lonely, anxious, down - tell someone.
:18:40. > :18:43.'There's loads of help out there, and trust me,