Jaden Lucas Miller: Mental Health, Overcoming Racism & Growing Up | Mick Unplugged

Why mental health is so important to me is because it's a gateway to success. If you begin to understand what your mental health can do for you in the future from now, you begin to understand that, okay, if I change the way I think, if I change the way I look at this negative impact on me, I can change to a positive and be able to help someone that is going through the same thing and relate them to it. You'd be able to both succeed because you change the mentality of how you think. And I would like to be advocate to that as well as I've gone through things in my life answering your second question. I've gone through things in my life dealing with, you know, racism and being in predominantly white school and also dealing with acting. And it is a maturing stage in your life where I'm going through it now where I'm 18, I'm not a kid actor anymore. It's more of a, okay, now you are a young man. You are starting to understand that you have to make your own decisions. You have to now understand who you are and that's outside of anybody's career. It's not an easy thing as you may have different perspectives on things and you have to encounter and go head on and it's not easy.