Helping teachers deal with strawberry generation's mental health issues

LETTERS: What do you say when students tell you that they have suicidal thoughts? Or that they are on anti-depressants having been clinically diagnosed with anxiety disorder?

Ten years ago, as educators, we had to only face issues such as truancy, lack of motivation and plagiarism.

Today, students openly address their mental health issues. They want you to know that they are overwhelmed, sad, stressed, potentially self-harming and depressed.

Today's youth are called the "strawberry generation", a term loosely taken from a Chinese-neologism that originated from Taiwan, which means "bruise easily".