Hear the voices of North Texas teens on our mental health and gun violence crises | SharonFGrigsby
One in five youths between the ages of 9 and 17 experiences a diagnosable mental health disorder.don’t move us to act — to get beyond the denial, intervene early and persevere for evidence-based treatment.
Gavin Yi, a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, told me he feels stable now but his mental health was “very shaky” earlier in the year. Brockman, a graduate of the University of Texas High School’s online program and now headed to Pace University, showed me the semicolon-and-heart tattoo on her arm — a symbol for solidarity and struggles with depression, suicidal ideation and other mental health issues.Cry Havoc actor Maggie Brockman's semicolon-and-heart tattoo represents her solidarity with others who experience mental health struggles.
His perspective changed when a friend’s struggles left him no choice but to connect him with trusted help. The friend is doing much better now and talks almost daily with Turner.Tremaine Jones, a Booker T. graduate bound for the School of Arts Institute of Chicago, hopes audiences leave the show with the resolve to pay more careful attention to each individual in their lives.
She noted that even her open and accepting parents get nervous when she talks openly about her depression and anxiety. “The most important thing I want people to take home from this show is the reality of the mental health crisis happening everywhere — and older generations really don’t understand or talk about it.”
Cry Havoc actors Maggie Brockman and Olivia King, two of the cast members of "The Art of Broken Things." While they wanted to be sensitive to the most recent tragedy, the teens told me that gun violence is an accepted, if awful, part of their lives.
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