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Good_Kitty_Clarence t1_j8185kb wrote

Adults can’t properly care for children’s mental health when they can’t even care for their own. No one can pour from an empty cup.

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d-cent t1_j80kdgj wrote

I'm not surprised, but national politics doesn't care about your mental health or your health care in general. Until we get them to care about putting health care reform as a big priority, we are screwed.

With the way the right is against socialism, I wouldn't hold my breath for universal health care

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dkemp1006 t1_j81d3a1 wrote

Working in an elementary school, I can full-heartedly agree that students mental health is at a breaking point. But let's not forget about the educators who have to be on the front lines of this travesty. Discipline, in the traditional sense in schools, is impossible without reinforcement at home. I'm not fully placing blame on the lack of parenting, but the pandemic opened Pandora's Box

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SGI21 t1_j821eu1 wrote

I 100% agree. I am a teacher and it’s gotten progressively worse since the pandemic.

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vtdadbod007 t1_j84hnmr wrote

You guys are saints. Wish you nothing but the best

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headgasketidiot t1_j80jo5w wrote

I recommend reading this piece by Danielle Carr, a UCLA professor. I was going to post some quotes, but it's really not very long, and provides a very valuable perspective on the ongoing mental health crisis.

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VTPeWPeW247 t1_j81evy0 wrote

Good read. I learned a new word for lies, reification.

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snoozedaytoday t1_j84fxtg wrote

I just wanted to say thanks for posting this article. I've had some conversations relating to this in the recent past, discussing depression and anxiety as a normal response to an awful status quo. It was helpful, if scary in a way, to read something like this from someone smarter than me.

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houseonthehilltop t1_j81oy7l wrote

great opinion piece - unfortunately most people will not read it let alone understand it - I wish I had the answers

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Trajikbpm t1_j80pxfm wrote

Along with eveyone else...

Im convinced covid plus stress will continue taking us out yearly.

I wouldn't be surprised if it takes me out in a year or two and I'm only 37.

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landodk t1_j811kfb wrote

Not to mention that it gets worse with each person who leaves. Each early retirement takes out years of experience that aren’t replaced.

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_peteyfourfingers_ t1_j81co76 wrote

Are you in K-12? I am. I thought going remote was bad, but it’s the post-Covid narcissism everyone has that’s really bothering me. We lost the sense of belonging to a community during Covid, and I’m not sure how we get it back.

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Good_Kitty_Clarence t1_j81rqb6 wrote

I was disappointed that my community didn’t care about exposing my children and immunocompromised loved ones to a potentially fatal infection. It’s hard to come back from that. Especially when they still don’t.

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TheTowerBard t1_j83tn9e wrote

Let’s not diminish the fact we learned a lot of our neighbors support violently overthrowing our government. We have also seen the open embrace of fascism from many. So no, kinda don’t want to make small talk with lots of folks anymore.

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Good_Kitty_Clarence t1_j8458re wrote

Another excellent point. Every time I drive by a home with Trump decor™, I am reminded that members of my community (still!) support installing a serial sexual assaulter as a dictator.

And every time I see anti-choice propaganda on someone’s car or in their yard, I am reminded that members of my community do not see me or my daughter as equal, valuable, and autonomous human beings.

Yes, hard to come back from that.

[eta: sorry for the quintuple post, not sure if it’s Reddit or my signal giving me fits this morning]

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Trajikbpm t1_j81cw1d wrote

I'm just speaking in general as a society.

We're all done.

And I agree. Post covid narcissism. I like that. Welll said.

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ArkeryStarkery t1_j83ifgo wrote

The only place I still have community is among the people who still act like Covid is an ongoing and real worry.

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Libriomancer t1_j81b1zi wrote

Throughout my early years at school we had a different principal for elementary, middle, and high school. When my class moved from elementary to middle school out principal followed us. When we moved from middle school to high school the high school principal literally had a mental breakdown a month into the year. Their solution was to have the middle school principal cover the high school as well.

So the job stress actually caused a principal to take a leave of absence due to mental health and their solution was doubling one guy’s workload. And this is the mindset of the people they had managing the children’s education.

So yeah… I’m so surprised kids mental health is at a breaking point.

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Rita22222 t1_j823eqk wrote

In education, we reward hard work with more hard work. If you are great with kids and can handle diverse mental health/behavioral needs, you will get more challenging students sent your way. If you are a talented administrator, you will get all the toughest and stressful situations sent your way. In ten years, we won’t have enough educators to staff our public schools unless we make some drastic changes.

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houseonthehilltop t1_j81llxj wrote

Why doesn't this shock me. Go out and about or watch the news daily - no matter your age or where you live - America's mental health is at a breaking point. Look at how politicians act and all the divisiveness out there -hostility in the parking lot of your grocery store - entertainment networks calling themselves news stations and spewing venom and untruths - it's a cesspool

Lots of chaos everywhere you turn - no wonder the kids are depressed or confused -

Until we get back to respecting one another and everyone's uniqueness nothing is going to change. Just my 2 cents

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xxxDog_Fucker_69xxx t1_j82he17 wrote

I’m not surprised, we’re in a digital age where impressionable kids are being blasted with rich, beautiful, and successful people. Creating a complete and deep sense of inadequacy.

Meanwhile they’ve lived through a plague and are now facing a crumbling economy, inflation, and WW3. Would you be happy growing up in these circumstances?

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SevenSparrowsSing t1_j82m68s wrote

The worst part is ESSER funds were cut this year so all the behavior/social emotional specialists/ health teachers are being cut at the worst possible time. You think THIS year is bad, wait till next year.

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lantonas t1_j865wci wrote

The worst part was ESSER funds being used to give school staff bonuses instead of benefiting the children.

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bobsizzle t1_j82wbl4 wrote

I wonder why..... pandemic on top of social media. Social media makes bullying easier and more relentless. When I was in school, you didn't see anyone pretty much all summer. Now you have people dming you to say how gay you look all year. On top of the added pressure of fitting in, getting likes and views and trying to one up people. I'm sure it's even worse than I imagine. Kid's are assholes and psychopaths.

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SemperFuu t1_j83n3ml wrote

I wonder how many people have children in school who replied… Can say this isn’t the case for all the schools. Also from what I’ve seen, parents need to be more active in their kids lives.

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Accurate-Tell8 t1_j8440id wrote

Yep, I work in mental health. It’s worse now than before the pandemic for both adults and pediatrics. The difference is that resources for pediatric mental health have always been more scarce than adults so the increased demand for services combined with the Covid fallout is crushing the system and we are woefully unprepared to handle the problem. We don’t know how to fix it or help these kids with the current mental health funding. It’s disheartening and disconcerting and every one I know who is also working in the system feels the impact of it and is scared for what happens when it gets worse. Because it will get worse.

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MFDVT t1_j85zrs6 wrote

“A fight for mental health waged only on the terms of access to psychiatric care does not only risk bolstering justifications for profiteering invoked by start-ups eager to capitalize on the widespread effects of grief, anxiety and despair. It also risks pathologizing the very emotions we are going to need to harness for their political power to get real solutions.” Edit to credit author Carr

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Wesley__Willis t1_j83xts7 wrote

I can’t stop thinking about that situation in Alburgh, not so much the brawl itself but the multiple students who needed hospital care after “punching walls” when it was over.

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_j8223fu wrote

I’m thinking fear of getting shot at while at school is the largest underlying stressor for kids.

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ConnectionFluffy7297 t1_j86g6tn wrote

American children are guinea pigs in a malicious, demented social experiment involving CRT and LGBT ideology being waged against them by rootless cosmopolitan billionaires trying to destroy the United States from the inside out via psychological warfare. Everyone seems to know this but nobody is doing anything about it.

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Leeebs_OG t1_j829asm wrote

We are putting teachers, parents and all their egos ahead of children's needs. We sure do spend a lot of money to educate but not enough on listening to what is actually going on with kids in their day to day life. I work with many of them and what I hear constantly is that they feel as though they are a number in a system. I wouldn't blame them, we have to get back to actually listening, not telling them to learn a certain way. What did everyone think would happen when you lock kids up, make them wear a mask losing any individual identity they formally had. The educational system need a complete overhaul, reminding those at the helm that kids come 1st not teachers unions. Put money where it works, not where the union demands. Kids should be our focus, including their mental health.

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meinblown t1_j81ejvd wrote

Is it at a breaking point? What does that even mean?

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lantonas t1_j80sp2y wrote

Don't worry, kids are resilient.

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a_toadstool t1_j818r2l wrote

Kids can be resilient just like adults can. Just like adults, kids can also not handle stress/pressures/ mental health issues, etc…

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lantonas t1_j865iut wrote

But we were told repeatedly throughout school closures not to worry because kids are resilient.

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a_toadstool t1_j869y6b wrote

Should’ve added a /s

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lantonas t1_j86bu75 wrote

No, I still would have gotten the downvotes, because the people that downvoted me are the same people that were parroting the "don't worry, kids are resilient" talking point.

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