Mental Illness is a really serious issue that affects so many people, including young teens. It can have such a significant impact on your perspective of life and how you view those around you. It can seriously mess up and alter your emotions and can increase certain negative emotions such as sadness or fear, which could leave you with a lack of happiness in your everyday life. Take anxiety for example. Anxiety is when your sense of fear is heightened and your awareness of your surroundings is increased because of the impending feeling that something negative is about to happen to you. And there are some people who have it worse than others, some just have general anxiety or social anxiety which only occurs when they are put into a situation where they have to communicate with others and speak to people they are unfamiliar with, or it can happen when speaking to anyone. And then there are people with much more severe anxiety, those who are unable to even leave their house due to the overwhelming feeling of fear or danger they experience when outside. People who experience this feel extremely unsafe being outside, and it would cause them to always stay inside their house in fear of the risk of danger. It can cause them to isolate themselves from the world completely. It could really take a toll on their lives, and their mental state of how they live for the rest of their life. But besides anxiety, there are so many more mental illnesses that people may suffer from that can cause them to feel this way. There are many young people such as teens and young adults who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses, and it can really have a significant impact on someone’s life if not properly taken care of, or without the help of a medical professional. This can also pose a problem as some people who have been diagnosed may not be able to afford help from a mental health professional, or they are just unable to get the help they need.