Adolescents (young people aged between 10 and 24) are particularly vulnerable to developing mental health disorders. Essentially this is because our brains are not fully developed until the end of adolescence. These mental illnesses that start in adolescence can then continue well into adulthood.
The COVID pandemic has added to already worrying trends in the mental health of children and young people. In 2021, the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists warned that record numbers of under-18s were being referred to mental health services during the pandemic.
