Have you been in a position where your child or grandchild addressed you with the concern of needing to talk to a therapist due to depression or anxiety?

I’m sure, many of you are thinking to yourselves right now, yes. I am also sure that whether you responded directly to them or thought about it to yourself, you probably thought that in your day and age people didn’t talk about emotions and the only people that go to see a “shrink” are psychopathic criminals.

According to an article written by Pubmed Central, many elderly people view having a mental illness a sign of weakness (Lima & Ivbijaro, 2013).

Over time, research has shown that older adults often do not feel comfortable asking for help when struggling emotionally compared to today’s generational population (Sewell, 2017).

Unfortunately due to the effects of this issue, many young struggling kids in today’s generation have a hard time asking their parents for help finding a therapist and feeling accepted by family and loved ones around them when they’re struggling with mental health issues.

This can leave so many kids who are in severe need of therapy, left alone, drowning in mental illness which only heightens the suicide rate. Finally, people need to be open-minded to new practices done today. Although mental health is more normalized today, it was actually being practiced and studied back in the day and we have come a long way in improvements and learning today.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was an early psychologist from the Renaissance to the early modern era and he believed in being inductive and gathering data so that we can continuously learn more and more about psychology.

Devon Gonzales Colorado Springs