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