Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:34 am
[quote="interteach"]Your privilege is showing PsyGuy.
Attending an expensive private school doesn't act as an inoculation against mental health issues. Minor issues crop up all the time, and when it comes to major mental illness where the causes often have a genetic link - well, your assertions just become as offensive as misinformed.
As in international school veteran here are some of the issues I've had brought to my attention from school counselors: major depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, OCD, Tourrettes, Asperger's, and even early schizophrenia. Yeah, this is just student management. International counselors don't treat these, but they sure do play a role in helping these students. And then they often have to deal with less-serious problems that are still very serious and their rich parents don't want to hear about. Just like you, it seems.
Just why do you teach?[/quote]
@interteach I would like to "piggy back" on your statements. I won't refer to the ignorant statements. My school has several counselors, one for each school. We also deal with Anorexia, Borderline personality, anorexia, depression, bipolar, aspergers, tourrettes and oppositional defiance disorders. The counselors are tasked with working with these students, on occasion I am asked to step in and help. On occasion I also work with doctors by giving information to support diagnosis or make recommendations when wrong meds are given. The field is vast and mental illness is not an anomaly but common when dealing with a large population of students. Also with consanguineous marriage.
Attending an expensive private school doesn't act as an inoculation against mental health issues. Minor issues crop up all the time, and when it comes to major mental illness where the causes often have a genetic link - well, your assertions just become as offensive as misinformed.
As in international school veteran here are some of the issues I've had brought to my attention from school counselors: major depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, OCD, Tourrettes, Asperger's, and even early schizophrenia. Yeah, this is just student management. International counselors don't treat these, but they sure do play a role in helping these students. And then they often have to deal with less-serious problems that are still very serious and their rich parents don't want to hear about. Just like you, it seems.
Just why do you teach?[/quote]
@interteach I would like to "piggy back" on your statements. I won't refer to the ignorant statements. My school has several counselors, one for each school. We also deal with Anorexia, Borderline personality, anorexia, depression, bipolar, aspergers, tourrettes and oppositional defiance disorders. The counselors are tasked with working with these students, on occasion I am asked to step in and help. On occasion I also work with doctors by giving information to support diagnosis or make recommendations when wrong meds are given. The field is vast and mental illness is not an anomaly but common when dealing with a large population of students. Also with consanguineous marriage.