Teen Mental Health Resources

Find helpful mental health resources for teens, including peer support and support services, mental health podcasts, and TED or TEDx Talks.

Teen Peer Support & Support Services

• Teen Line
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  A peer-support service for young people up to age 19 where trained teen volunteers listen to other teens. Young people can reach out about school stress, depression, anxiety, loneliness, relationships, family conflict, abuse, self-harm, or simply feeling overwhelmed.
• NAMI Teen & Young Adult HelpLine
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  A free confidential peer-support service for teens and young adults who want someone to talk to about mental health, school, work, friends, family, loneliness, or difficult situations. Support is provided by trained young adult volunteers with lived experience.
• Childline
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  A confidential support service for young people under 19 in the UK. Teens can speak with a counselor about almost anything, including anxiety, depression, bullying, family problems, abuse, relationships, school, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts.

Mental Health Podcasts

• She Persisted — Episodes for Teens
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  A dedicated collection of episodes created specifically for teen listeners. Topics include teen anxiety, depression, high school, friendships, difficult family relationships, relationships, coping skills, productivity, and asking for help.
• What’s On Your Mind
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  A podcast by teens for teens. Episodes discuss anxiety, self-doubt, friendships, digital life, mental health, and practical ways young people can handle difficult situations.

TED & TEDx Talks for Teens

• Why Students Should Have Mental Health Days — Hailey Hardcastle
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  A young mental-health advocate talks about anxiety, panic, school pressure, and why students should be able to recognize when their mental health needs attention instead of waiting until they completely burn out.
• Teenage Anxiety: What Helps Me — Saul Whelan
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  A 16-year-old talks about his own experience with anxiety and mental-health difficulties. The talk is especially relatable because it presents anxiety from another teenager’s perspective rather than an adult explaining teenagers.
• The Lifetime Stakes of Teen Mental Health — Roselinde Kaiser
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  A clinical psychologist and neuroscientist explains why adolescence can be a vulnerable time for depression while also being a period when important psychological strengths can develop.
• How Can We Improve School-Based Mental Health Support? — Jordan Wells
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  A teenager discusses her own mental-health struggles and the difficulty of getting enough support at school. The talk focuses on making it easier for students to speak up and access help.
• Youth Mental Health Is Not as Complicated as We Make It Out to Be — Hayley Watson
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  Explores anxiety, depression, loneliness, addiction, difficult childhood experiences, and helping young people understand that their current struggles do not have to determine the rest of their lives.