“Linn grew up with a sick parent,”
“Linn Englund grew up with a parent who suffered from mental illness and substance abuse. She was subjected to violence and suffered myself with a mental illness, as a result of the difficult growing up.”
“I thought for a long time that my situation at home was normal,” she says.”
“Folkhälsomyndigheten on behalf of the government, made a summary of the underlying risk factors to people affected by mental illness. Of it appears to uppväxtvillkoren has great significance. For example, run the children who grow up with parents with mental health problems and greater risk to suffer from it later in life.”
“Linn Englund is one of all those who have grown up under such conditions.”
“– I grew up with a parent who had an addiction, largely as a result of mental illness. I was also exposed to violence in the home with my other parent, also there was an unspoken mental illness in the picture, ” she says.”
“Directly after the student moved the Linn Englund from home. It became her rescue, along with dansintresset and contacts with children in the same age group.”
” I thought for a long time that my situation at home was normal, and it took a long time before I got help. It was only in high school that I started to tell about how I had it for the other.”
“the Wounds from the childhood she got to work with for a long time. She developed a private mental ill-health and during the periods the dimensions very bad.”
“” I have felt badly about myself, and have in various ways hurt myself.”
“today, working Linn Englund himself within the organisation Maskrosbarn to support children and young people in similar situations. And there are many that need help.”
“According to aggregate statistics from the Folkhälsomyndigheten and psychiatry live at least 500 000 children with a parent with substance abuse or mental illness, it is 25 per cent of all children in Sweden”
“Underlying causes”
“Linn Englund says that a common problem in prevention is that it often focuses too much on the child’s own mental health, but to look for the underlying causes.”
“– It often depends on how they have it at home. So was it also in my case, it was just focus on my problems and not focus on the hemsituationen.”
“She thinks that more resources are needed to combat mental illness among the young, that there should be better liaison between different services, as a school, social services and health care.”
“– There is also need for more personalised support, to ensure the individual child’s needs, ” says Linn Englund.”
