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She has Mental Illness, "Oh, can she um walk?"
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 48123"><p>Great idea, Marg! We'll have to make sure to include a chapter in there on how one walks when one is mentally ill. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/1010hammer.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hammer:" title="hammer :hammer:" data-shortname=":hammer:" /></p><p> </p><p>totoro - I wanted to add that you have much more restraint than I. When easy child was severely depressed, his language arts teacher asked at the parent-teacher meeting (in front of all his other teachers) if he had a physical illness. I explained that his depression was severe, that he was suicidal and had a plan. She repeated, "But does he have a PHYSICAL illness?" I responded, "Well, if he follows through with his plan and shoots himself in the head, will that be physical enough for you?" I had had it up to my eyeballs with the ignorance at that point. Not one of my finer moments, but I had reached my limit.</p><p> </p><p>The Health Department did a survey of the students that year and found that at any given time 20&#37; of the student body had symptoms of depression. It should be mandated that teachers working in that environment be at least familiar with these issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 48123"] Great idea, Marg! We'll have to make sure to include a chapter in there on how one walks when one is mentally ill. :hammer: totoro - I wanted to add that you have much more restraint than I. When easy child was severely depressed, his language arts teacher asked at the parent-teacher meeting (in front of all his other teachers) if he had a physical illness. I explained that his depression was severe, that he was suicidal and had a plan. She repeated, "But does he have a PHYSICAL illness?" I responded, "Well, if he follows through with his plan and shoots himself in the head, will that be physical enough for you?" I had had it up to my eyeballs with the ignorance at that point. Not one of my finer moments, but I had reached my limit. The Health Department did a survey of the students that year and found that at any given time 20% of the student body had symptoms of depression. It should be mandated that teachers working in that environment be at least familiar with these issues. [/QUOTE]
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