Buckle up kid, get ready for school; The obvious response to increased demand from students for mental health services is to ramp up the amount and availability of those services – and we should no doubt do this – but maybe at the same time we should ask a different question, “Why does exposure to school cause so much anxiety and depression?” I have my personal theories, most significantly that students experience school not as a place to explore and fulfill their potentials, but a gauntlet to be run, where failure is severely punished, their futures of security and prosperity permanently foreclosed following even a slight bobble.
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