In 1992, the world health organization labeled stress as an epidemic. However, mental health issues are often overlooked by parents and administrators. They can be written off as typical teenage mood swings or is just deemed normal because of how common academic stress occurs. In 2006 it was reported that more than fifty percent of students in the American public school system were manifesting learning, behavioral, and emotional problems (Adelman). Compare this study to today’s statistics, and not much has changed. In 2016 it was stated that 1 in 5 (approximately twenty percent) of kids in the United States display symptoms of a mental health disorder (Anderson, NIMH). The National Institute of Mental Health researched that in children aged
