why is mental illness so taboo in schools?
I feel like mental illness is still something that is very much taboo.
I've struggled with OCD, GAD, social anxiety, stress-induced anxiety and depression for a big part of my life, being more prominent in high school.
Where I live, in school you can do the Uni pathway or the general pathway. I started year 11 (2015) doing the uni pathway, and found the stress too much to deal with. By the 7th week, I had taken 15 days off due to exhaustion, anxiety and stress-related illness. My teachers were worried about me, so I had to have a meeting with my dean of year and parents.
During the meeting, my mum basically had to explain what basic anxiety is to him, and had to persuade him to let me change to the general pathway, which really disappointed him because I am "quite smart and everyone deals with a bit of anxiety before tests :))))"
The condition was I had to see the councillor at school which was an even worse experience. I'd been seeing a psychologist outside school, but apparently that wasn't good enough.
Basically, the councillor told me that it's my fault that I'm stressed because I choose not to sleep, and if I sleep more I will be fine. The last time I saw her before that was in year 9 (2013) when I was sent there for grief counselling. She chose lecture me about my "daddy issues" (which are non-existent), instead of helping me come to terms with the deaths of my uncle and grandmother.
Why is this such a taboo thing? I feel like the teachers and councillors aren't equipped enough to deal with mental illness, and they dismiss it. A little bit of stress and pre-test nerves are WAY different to crippling anxiety.
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