'Mental health' ranked 1st among concerns applied to 'Gyeonggi Youth Mind Counseling Center', 2nd place was 'Employment'

The number one concern type reported to the ‘Gyeonggi Youth Mind Counseling Center’ operated by the Gyeonggi Future Generation Foundation was ‘mental health’.

The Gyeonggi Youth Mental Counseling Center is a service where young people write about various concerns on the Gyeonggi Youth Portal (youth.gg.go.kr), a professional counselor responds, and if necessary, they connect with youth policy or specialized organizations.

According to the results of an analysis by the Gyeonggi Future Generation Foundation on the 8th of 652 counseling cases (multiple responses) between the ages of 19 and 39 who came to the Gyeonggi Youth Mental Counseling Center between March and October, more than half (54.8%) chose mental health as their type of concern.

Employment (29.3%) was followed by human relationships (26.5%), career (25.3%), dating/marriage (17.9%), and family relationships (15.3%).

Most people chose mental health along with employment or relationship issues.

60% of job seekers complained of anxiety, and nearly half of office workers also experienced anxiety (48.2%) and depression (47.7%).

Young people who were resting had the highest rate of complaints of feeling helpless (49.1%) and lethargy (43.5%).

Counselors selected ‘self-reproach’ as the biggest feature of this year’s counseling.

Among the cases, 21.9% of counseling included expressions related to self-blame, such as 'self-blame', 'my fault', 'sensitive', and 'could not bear it'.

The Gyeonggi Youth Mental Counseling Center linked 188 of the counseling cases to mental health-related organizations such as the suicide prevention hotline, local mental health welfare center, and Gyeonggi Youth Mind Care.