BBC News - Jake Humphrey's 'life lessons' rolled out to Norfolk school
Claiming Children's Mental Health are "in decline" because they are effectively "weak-minded" and "not resilient" enough should be enough to get you Annihilated and thrown into a bag of piranhas...
Because, as always... They take children's Mental Health with Patronising Indifference, and Willful Ignorance — engirely ignoring environmental factors & FAR over-simplifying it into a "YOU Problem" for them.
Do you really think that in 1938 12-year-olds were BOMBARDED with information about the MASSIVE PLY SHIT STATE the worldnwsd in? They they were expected to know about the upcoming war? Or about the last one? About the unstable global political climate, the Environmental Climate, or the broken & shoddy economy? No one EVER talked to kids about hat stuff and they didn't know it existed. And just under 100 years ago, No One had EVER HEARD of sodding bloody COVID.
But these days? ALL News channels `are run 24/7 On TV, Online, as are newspapers, and social media. It's discussed around them and over their heads. In schools. In Facebook. On BBC NEWS. Their parents are also Bombarded with even MORE — as well as closer to home problems like filling out Universal Credit forms. Going to work. Getting to work - Car payments, car tax, MOTs, Petrol... Or of Credit Card or KLARNA repayments. Of whether going to A&E might kill you Quicker than Just Not Going.
Making It WORSE.
I know, because 30 YEARS ago, I was one of those kids... and I've only got five BRUTAL letters for this Indoctrination … #CPTSD
Yep. Their lessons sure lasted a lifetime. How that entire lifetime lasted longer than 12 years is the stuff of future philosophers, because I sure as hell couldn't say… For the Pain & Misery it caused, it came to a hair’s breadth that it very nearly didn't.
And then several times more, AGAIN.
Enough that by now I can throw back a cup of “charcoal juice” offered free with every OD/stomach pumping like it's Starbucks Finest… or a Malibu & Lemonade.
Because actual fully-grown Adults Couldn't Accept It WASNT MY Fault. Everything that was wrong was always MY Fault. I was supposed to be stronger, better, less of a “troublemaker", less of a “problem", More of this and That and SOMETHING ELSE. More RESILIENT.
My own take? That I was NEVER Good Enough.
I WAS TWELVE.
Later on, it was about “owning & controlling my own mental health". Taking ownership & responsibility of my feelings, my expression of them, controlling my behaviours, controlling my own panic attacks, controlling my “Depression”, and being aware of how I presented myself to others; not to be “a burden”…
I was not an adult. I Was FIFTEEN.
I was also an Undiagnosed Autistic Female with high intelligence, showing “Mental Problems" and “Behavioural Problems".
And Damned Right I Was… I was also emotionally and verbally abused at home, emotionally neglected, occasionally physically abused, with the next theat always around the corner. Then there was the! bullying and emotional, psychological warfare at school… from the STAFF. From a handful of kids (former“friends" being spiteful about it), to a few of the Teachers… oh, AND The Headmaster, too.
When those environmental factors were temporarily removed, I started feeling safe and eventually things got better. Until they didn't. Because, eventually, I had to go home. Then it started all over again, but with CPTSD without a name.
Back in the same horse for everybody - MY Fault. I “just needed to behave". I needed more Resilience. I needed to “do better for my parents" [that one was laughable]. I needed to control myself better. Have more positive thoughts [that one went past laughable into the absolute absurd].
NO One ever thought to look PAST Me to what was Around Me.
And These %…
They. Have. NO. GODDAMNED. CLUE.
Leaving yet another generation of anxious, confused self-loathing young adults who don't feel like they're “enough" because they're “weak and useless”. *My hand held up to this one*
Or just as bad - insular, self-sacrificing, pure Islands that let no one in or anybody help until they're too Overwhelmed & Burnt Out to do ANYTHING anymore, because of the same mantra in their heads:
“YOU. CAN. Do It… You’re Resilient. Powerful. Capable. You don't NEED. ANYBODY. ELSE. TO. HELP. You’re STRONG & RESILIENT!”
*My hand held up for this one*`
…And Yep. BOTH me.
…. ….
And what happened? I crashed and burned SO HARD I ended up with LIFE CHANGING Disabilities from burning myself right up like Icarus. OVER-PUSHED SO HARD it irreparably harmed me: Functional Neurological Disorder & Fibromyalgia wrecked and paralysed me. I wasn't even 33yo yet, when the whole stack of dominos started crashing down around my ears.
KEPT OVER-PUSHING… Things got MIGHTY WORSE. BOTH same mindsets pushing me on and psychologically torturing me.
Starting to get through my skull I might very well have ME/CFS as well.
All. Because. They Convinced Me that this was what it was — MY Problem.
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