Oak Forest High School junior Ryan Lipsett has been named to the national Creative Visions Mental Health Youth Advisory Committee and plans to use art to help remove stigma from mental health issue…
Ryan Lipsett, a junior at Oak Forest High School, was invited by Creative Visions to join its national Mental Health Youth Advisory Committee.Ryan Lipsett wants people who might be struggling with depression, anxiety or other forms of mental distress to know they are not alone.
“Just like other teens, there’s things I struggle with and it just puts me into the perspective that it’s a normal thing everyone goes through and there isn’t enough awareness of it,” Lipsett said. “It matters to me because everyone goes through it and people lose their lives to this. It’s a very serious thing that doesn’t get enough attention and it’s annoying to me that it gets under-shadowed around other issues.
During Spirit Week in May, which is in Mental Health Awareness Month, he’s suggested students might wear clothing to signify mental health, such as choosing purple and teal for suicide prevention, red for addiction prevention, yellow for ADHD.
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