{"id":33404,"date":"2024-02-02T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=33404"},"modified":"2024-02-05T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T14:17:03","slug":"teenage-author-to-publish-first-of-its-kind-welsh-worry-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/teenage-author-to-publish-first-of-its-kind-welsh-worry-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage author to publish first-of-its-kind Welsh \u2018worry diary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A teenager from Cardiff is set to publish a first-of-its-kind Welsh \u2018Worry Diary\u2019 to help people struggling with mental health problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gwilym Morgan wants to help children his age who live with conditions like anxiety or depression to write down their feelings in the language most comfortable to them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: “It is much more effective if you write your worries and anxieties in your mother tongue rather than having to translate them into a different language because it adds another step to the process, it makes it more complicated.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gwilym originally wrote the diary for his little sister who was struggling with anxiety after his mother could not find any suitable journals online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He plans to translate this book into Welsh so that he can help more people write in their first language.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhys Yaxley, a psychotherapeutic counsellor said: \u201cIn therapy, what we try to do is put a name to experience, a name to a feeling, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Someone whose first language is Welsh, or their first language is predominantly Welsh, they may have to think to translate something into English, so it\u2019s like an extra barrier.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welsh, however, is not Gwilym\u2019s first language and has taught himself the language in the last five years. He won the Eisteddfod yr Urdd\u2019s Welsh Learner\u2019s Award last year in recognition of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data published on Thursday by the Welsh Government showed a decline in Welsh speakers living in Wales between 2022-2023.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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