My State Is Offering Students Excused Mental Health Days, And Some Parents Aren’t Happy “My response to this woman is that if she doesn’t like mental health days, don’t take them if offered.”
When I was a child, dealing with relentless anxiety, I was blown off. I truly began to believe I was crazy and it was all just “in my head.” Thankfully, I was diagnosed as an adult and began the hard work in therapy, reparenting my inner child. I don’t want other children to go through that. It’s exhausting, expensive, and time-consuming.
Just because something has always been a certain way, doesn’t mean it should stay that way—including how we treat a person of any age with a mental health diagnosis. It’s unfair to punish them for dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, or whatever else we may have. I’m so thankful my state has decided that youth mental health matters enough to warrant an excused absence. Now, if we can get the same for our teachers, and all employees for that matter, we’d be on the right path.
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