I need help with my speech. I have some points I wann include but I am just not a good writer. Mental health is as important as physical health. For example stress. It is proven by scientists that stress can affect our body. Creating pain, problems with our body cycle or even supports the risk of heart attacks.Stress increases stress hormones (adrenaline & cortisol) and causes blood sugar swings, both which contribute to stress hormones being too high at night (a common denominator in insomnia). – Catherine Crow Education about your options in terms of help are really lacking, which is why mental unstable people sometimes don′t know how or where to get help.I know a lot of people my school dealing with psychological problems yet we never got informed about it in our subjects.Health education in school is more that inadequate. People make this taboo around our mental health when it’s so important to let those thoughts and problems out. School is supposed to prepare us for life. Yet I have learned like 5% of stuff i actuallyuse and need for life.We need to educate people. It’s us brutal to have a mental disorder as it is to have physical problems. Mental health education is truly the difference between life and death, and we are far from powerless in our abilitz to save lifes. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people between 15 and 24.