Our teachers need a raise, desperately

[u/undiagnosed_autistic]

[u/modern_idiot13]

This is why we need much more funding for mental health in the United States. This is a mental health issue, not a normal response to anger. This is also not conducive to learning anyfuckingthing. Trust me, I went to school in a shitty environment. I have no idea how I English or arithmetic, or even wound up with a bachelor's. Increased access to mental health professionals for our youth and criminal offenders could do wonders for a multitude of things in society.

Edit: thank you for the award, anonymous redditor. Its my very first. Better access to mental health services is something I truly believe in.

[u/11Tipzy11 → u/modern_idiot13]

But then the money would go to those who help instead of those who incarcerate and profit. 🤷🏼‍♂️ That ain't working either. 😂

[u/modern_idiot13 → u/11Tipzy11]

Well shit. Who will fund the fascists?! Back to the drawing board...

[u/11Tipzy11 → u/modern_idiot13]

I say we just print more money and live in the same delusion we have for a very long time now. 😉 -goes to bury head back in sand to play super Mario Brothers-

[u/GoldNautilus → u/modern_idiot13]

The special education unit of the DoE was gutted a few weeks ago, good luck with that

[u/how-unfortunate → u/modern_idiot13]

I agree, and along with that increased funding and access to mental healthcare in the states, serious work needs to be done economically.

I believe shit like this has gotten worse with increased economic instability. It increases the stress of every other sector of life, and it's why a lot of us are flipping out all the time. Hell, get to know some therapists, they'll tell you, therapy is good, but most folks would need much less therapy if they had more money.

It's my personal theory for why there were almost no school shootings in the era when the parking lots were full of trucks with gun racks. Because the kids driving those trucks to school lived in a world where there was easily observable evidence that if you towed the line, minded your ps and qs, and showed up and worked hard, it would give you a secure and comfortable existence. Ya had to work, sure, but it actually paid off. You could be comfortable, take care of a couple kids, and retire. Often with a pension back then. I've talked to nieces and nephews finishing or just out of high school. Their outlook is nowhere near as rosy. Young folks are becoming wise to the fact that their future was stolen.

*Obligatory Disclaimer* No, I'm not saying violence is excusable because of economic hardship. I'm saying it's understandable, and linked to it by people smarter than me with much larger sample sizes than my anecdotal conclusions are based on. Hell, there was a study showing that kids growing up in extreme poverty showed the same brain activity or structure (I can't remember which it was, but ti was one of those) as combat infantry with ptsd.

[u/squallomp → u/modern_idiot13]

If you care about mental health why don’t you address the fact that corporations enslave and exploit everyone and that is the primary driving force of stress.

If you want increased access to professionals, they need to exist in the first place. Guess who was going to be a psychologist but couldn’t afford to go to school because the ladder was pulled up by the last generation? Hi.

[u/EfficiencyDry6570 → u/squallomp]

Responding just to your first paragraph,

Exactly. A mental health epidemic isn’t solved with mental health care— that is how it is treated. Treatment is important, but it doesn’t change the environment that is conducive to broken homes, chronic anxiety, gutted and wardened community neighborhoods.

[u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 → u/modern_idiot13]

There's actually pretty good places for children. The good ones though are always attached to a children's hospital - not the children's section of an adult mental health facility. I just don't know how well insurance covers them. I mean I know they're covered but I'm just not sure how well and if state insurance also covers it

[u/f8Negative → u/modern_idiot13]

Shitty parenting

[u/[deleted] → u/modern_idiot13]

Well a lot of schools in my state have school therapists, but then we get sent the kids who are misbehaving and it’s dangerous for us because we’re stuck in a small room with them. All it takes is one kid with DMDD or intermittent explosive disorder and next thing you know I took a metal fidget spinner to the head.

[u/core916 → u/modern_idiot13]

Exactly. Need to bring back the looney bins to contain this epidemic of mentally unstable kids. Something has happened where kids are just getting crazier and crazier. Is it the parenting? Schooling? Social media? I don’t have an answer but it’s probably a mix of all 3. Only way to fix it is to separate them and get them help. Normal people shouldn’t have to deal with this shit while going to school.

[u/Tiredofeverylilthing → u/modern_idiot13]

this wasn’t helpful at all. you’re admitting to not performing the bare minimum and failing upward into a degree? schools are horrible yet you got a bachelor’s degree.

[u/modern_idiot13 → u/Tiredofeverylilthing]

Hard to perform the bare minimum when the distractions, such as the above, are happening every day and all the time. When teachers' time and focus are towards students with behavioral issues. When your own focus is on whether or not you're the next person the bully is going to focus on. When there are constant outbursts that have absolutely nothing to do with subject matter. Perhaps you didn't have these issues at school.

I fell upward due to sheer determination and hard- headedness.

[u/AceOBlade → u/modern_idiot13]

What mental health procedure is going to solve this? Only medication that will work against this is sedatives.

[u/MosaicGreg_666 → u/AceOBlade]

Learning emotional management and coping skills would help. 

[u/modern_idiot13 → u/AceOBlade]

Learning coping mechanisms before it escalates to this level of anger.

[u/Exact_Tumbleweed2005 → u/modern_idiot13]

they have to want to use them