Mental Health is something that is in the news a lot and we hear a lot about it all the time. Many people suffer from some kind of mental ill health, such as addiction, gambling, drugs, alcohol and depression. People who do not understand what causes someone to get addiction to something, or to feel down all the time, say things like ''you'l be fine'' or ''what have you got to feel bad about'' or ''cheer up''. But saying those things doesn't actually help. It can even make the problem worse.

De La Salle wrote to a Brother who was feeling down and under pressure teaching in his school and he told him in his own words, don't be discouraged by anxieties and troubles. Life is full of them ". A lot of people think De La Salle as this always happy ,always smiling ,enthusiastic, cheerful, inspirational man who never complained about his life's work ,even when he and his Brothers were having awful things said about them and being attacked,or having furniture smashed and the schools burned down.

But on the other hand, it meant when a Brother was finding life difficult that John Baptist knew exactly how he felt, because he felt like that himself. So how did De La Salle have the courage? He got the courage from his faith and his constant belief that God would look after them. which of course, He did, because the schools were a success and word of the Brothers and their great work spread across the world.