Members of the Church of Scotland's National Youth Assembly (NYA) talk candidly about their mental health experiences, and how church impacts on them, in a new booklet released in May.
Mental Health and the Church arose from a discussion on mental health at last year’s NYA.
The 52 short stories range from joyful to upsetting. Some young people find church to have a positive impact on their mental health, but others feel it is a place where they cannot express their emotions, or where they feel pressure to conform or to present a public face that doesn’t match their internal feelings.