Digital mental health strategies used by young people in Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic: 'Just do it yourself, DIY'.

Young people's practices demonstrated their investment in their own agency, a general reluctance to engage with professional resources and recognition of the need to balance the risks and benefits of the informal strategies they preferred. Young people appeared sceptical of professionally-designed mental health resources and interventions and preferred to adapt and re-purpose the wide range of platforms and networks available in their informal digital worlds.