The research was commissioned by Time to Change, a campaign set up by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness in order to change public attitudes towards mental health. It discovered that a quarter of teenage boys experience mental health problems at least once a week and that 33 per cent keep the matter to themselves rather than talking about it.
The survey also found that half of teenage boys would not feel comfortable talking to their dads about their mental health.
When asked why they could not discuss issues like stress, anxiety and depression, more than a third of the teenagers questioned said it was because their fathers did not talk about their own feelings, while 31 per cent said they would not want to burden their dads.
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