mjr wrote:Psamathe wrote:I remember my school days as we were under a lot of pressure, exams after exams, revision for mocks, pressure to do more, do better in these exams that would determine the rest of our lives ... and we just knuckled down and got on with it not understanding there was even such a thing as "suffering from stress" (because nobody told us about it and never suggested we might suffer from it).
I certainly don't mean to belittle those who genuinely feel neither male nor female, and similarly, no intention to dismiss those school children who genuinely are suffering stress. But I do question the increase in such things corresponding to the "socially aware" continual checking if they are questioning their gender or suffering the pressure of exams ...
Maybe you "just knuckled down and got on with it" but plenty of children buckled under and got on with depression and nervous breakdowns and worse while feeling oh so alone because nobody told us about mental health and never suggested we might have to take care of it. The founding of Childline in 1986 and its inclusion of mental health topics was one of the greatest things ever to happen for children. I wish it had happened a couple of years earlier.
Tell you what - if you don't want "to dismiss those school children who genuinely are suffering stress," how about you stop suggesting that they're only imagining it because people are daring to talk with them about it? :mad:
Note the last stntence I wrote: "But I do question the increase in such things corresponding to the "socially aware" continual checking if they are questioning their gender or suffering the pressure of exams" and you'll see I am questioning the increase NOT "dismiss those school children who genuinely are suffering stress" as you suggest I said.
Ian