Many high school students around the world struggle with mental health every single year. Teen morality rates for suicide are the third highest of all other causes of death. Most people don’t know they are struggling or don’t know how to reach out. Teens are typically not very educated on mental health. But if we can find ways to reach out to people and high school students to let show them supporty systems are in place, then they will not be alone in a situation that could feel helpless
Psychology teacher Mr. Ky Dietz has his class going over mental health and sucide awarness. September is Suicide Awarness Month and students in Dietz’s class are going over ways to spread awareness throughout the school.
“What we are tying to get out is some awareness to our students from high school,” Dietz said. “A lot of stuff out there about mental health is stigmatized and we don’t have enough information out there. We hope to show – or maybe get the word out – to people that they are not alone and there’s always a place to go.”
Senior Bela Rivera is enjoying the psychology class. “Dietz is having us learn it by showing us people with these disorders and the processes they went through with mental health and like where they are in life and how they effected them with some of the regrets or feelings they had,” Rivera said.
The project is meant to get outside of Dietz’s classroom as well, which is why they’re sharing the information. ¨Dietz is having us do posters and on the permanent boards on the wall outside in the Hub,” sophomore Michael Merriman said. “We’re posting information needed to maybe reach out or just to get it out there to the students. Some people have made posts on social media and other platforms to get it out to more students.”
