Feel Happy At Home

When family relationships break down, parents are addicts, trusted adults abuse and homelessness happens, the effect on young people’s mental health can be catastrophic.

Even without these added pressures, many feel the need to hide their feelings from parents and carers because they're worried they won't understand.

As part of The Feel Happy Fix Live, 16 to 25-year-olds from across the UK are identifying the biggest issues to affect young people’s happiness at home, before proposing practical solutions to make change for the better.

Find out more about some of the Fixers already working on projects to help young people feel happier where they live…

Kyle Bell wants to highlight the impact parents’ untreated mental health conditions can have on their children. His campaign is based on the story of his friend ‘Tom’, whose mum became abusive while battling OCD, anorexia and depression. Click here to read more about his project.

Knowing that happiness at home can be disrupted when parents divorce, Emily Morris wants to support other young people whose mums and dads are separating. Click here to find out more about her campaign.

Hannah Williams is urging young carers to take time out to do things that make them happy, after she started looking after her mum at the age of 14. She wants others to know that they don’t have to put their lives on hold while caring for someone they love. Click here to read more about her project.

Opening up about her battle with depression, Mia Sweet is urging others with mental health conditions not to bottle up their emotions. With Fixers, she’s helped create a film to show the benefits of talking to family and friends. Click here to watch the film and find out more about Mia’s campaign.

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