Climate change anxiety and the art of storytelling

here was a youth mental health crisis in the UK before COVID-19. I know this from personal experience. Pre-pandemic, I was employed as the young people’s manager at a mental health charity. During the lockdowns, I moved on from that role to focus more on writing and literature, but I never forgot the young people I’d worked with. When I first started with the charity in 2016, waiting times for support from the local CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) stood at about one year. By 2020, we were being quoted over one and a half years to wait for support. The worst thing was that youth mental health