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Pamela Garfield-Jaeger's avatar

This is spot on. I wish there were more teachers and parents who said this.

It’s strange as a mental health professional to feel total disgust towards all of these mental health initiatives.

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GenX Anecdotes's avatar

It's not strange at all. Under the guise of "mental health awareness" they're actually making the mental health of kids worse. It seems utterly counter intuitive to me. Overthinking, obsessing and overanalysing ourselves is likely to make us create problems that aren't there! Why isn't this obvious?

It's nuts! Scuse the expression. But that's exactly what it is.

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Pamela Garfield-Jaeger's avatar

Yeah, I hate all of it. Unfortunately most of my colleagues don’t see it that way. 😢

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Delightful Oddling's avatar

omfg exactly

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