MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY YOUTH

Abstract

In today’s society, full of competition, social pressure and temptation, modern youngpeople find themselves in a difficult situation, which leads to problems with their mental health.Students gradually go through a period of spiritual formation in life and move from a period ofpsychological uncertainty to a more civilized, conscious stage. This is a new stage of individualdevelopment of students, and, at first glance, it seems that people are becoming more advancedand perfect creatures, making the transition to adulthood. At this period of life for the first time aperson gets the maximum development in terms of content and form, showing more “humanization”and “civilization”. However, this period is one of the most difficult in life and is characterized byfluctuations, ups and downs, as well as conflicts. In other words, it can be described as the entry ofstudents into the “storm period” of growth in life.For many reasons, such as serious workload in training, the need to often combine trainingwith work, adverse environment, problems of the educational system, emotional shocks frominterpersonal relationships, communication problems, unstable value orientation; some students receive psychological abnormalities that lead to unstable mental state and even psychological ormental illness, which, as a result, may even lead to crimes or offenses due to psychological problems.The article analyzes the most acute and common psychological problems of youth in the People’sRepublic of China at the present stage. The main causes leading to such unstable mental states ofyoung people have been identified, and possible ways to solve the problem have been outlined.The authors note the importance and the need to pay special attention to the mental healthof today’s youth, to study the current state of the problem, its causes and, based on the scientificapproach, to plan a strategy and develop tactics for solving psychological problems of the youngergeneration.