It is time to talk about mental health issues affecting the youth

Many would argue that we are living in times far much better than the past. For instance, the average global life span has significantly increased, thanks to an unprecedented advancement in technology in the health sector that has rendered many diseases that were once fatal, for example malaria, treatable. Other deadly diseases that ravaged humanity many years back, such as small pox, have been successfully eradicated.

Intensive research in microbiology has exposed the microorganisms that were previously dangerous and allowed us to develop ways of combating them. Because of this, a young person living in Nairobi today does not have to worry about dying from an infectious disease anymore. One can easily walk into a hospital and get treated within a few hours. Health issues that would have been a big deal many years ago do not even occupy the mind of the average modern young person today, and you would be forgiven for believing that young people have the luxury of living lives devoid of stress.