We did it reddit! Keep demoralising the normies until the become radicalised!
I know that students sometimes have additional problems on top of studying like finances, isolation, food, job insecurity etc. but sometimes students are also the worst thing for other students. When I was in university we were supposedly in a “collaborative environment” but there was so much muck-spreading and backstabbing.
My cohort had a broad age range but the younger students were the worst ones for it. Deleting other people’s work on group projects, spreading rumours, ostracisation, declarations of -phobia at the slightest thing (ironically one of the more popular girls shouted a homophobic slur at the top student and her LGBT friends did not bat an eyelid), not supporting each other etc. Lots of students don’t practice what they preach and universities shrug their shoulders when these problems are reported.
Imagine going through the pandemic lockdowns in that kind of environment.
There comes a point where we perhaps have to recognise that lack of support or services isn’t the issue, it’s that the society we live in is the cause
I can’t imagine why students that are encouraged and coerced by the Government/Schooling system into accepting 9K loans with aggressive interest rates, that the Government have now said they can change the terms of retroactively, for education that is getting progressively worse in terms of standards of teaching and outcomes – would be falling into negative mental states.
Correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t this figure been steadily growing over, oh I dont know, the past 5 to 10 years regardless of the impact that covid made?
Surely it’s mental illness that’s negatively affecting them, and not mental health?
When 50% of students claim negative mental health, are we not at the point that it isn’t a mental issue, but an inability to deal with the normal pressures of life? Students are famously pathetic for thinking they have to work hard for example.
I’m in my 60s and I don’t mean to sound insensitive but young people seem so fragile nowadays.
Why is that? Why do they want others to share their drama’s?
If I had a problem I’d get on with sorting it out. I’m obviously not talking about serious mental issues here but a lot of people seem to want their hands held all through their adult lives.
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We did it reddit! Keep demoralising the normies until the become radicalised!
I know that students sometimes have additional problems on top of studying like finances, isolation, food, job insecurity etc. but sometimes students are also the worst thing for other students. When I was in university we were supposedly in a “collaborative environment” but there was so much muck-spreading and backstabbing.
My cohort had a broad age range but the younger students were the worst ones for it. Deleting other people’s work on group projects, spreading rumours, ostracisation, declarations of -phobia at the slightest thing (ironically one of the more popular girls shouted a homophobic slur at the top student and her LGBT friends did not bat an eyelid), not supporting each other etc. Lots of students don’t practice what they preach and universities shrug their shoulders when these problems are reported.
Imagine going through the pandemic lockdowns in that kind of environment.
There comes a point where we perhaps have to recognise that lack of support or services isn’t the issue, it’s that the society we live in is the cause
I can’t imagine why students that are encouraged and coerced by the Government/Schooling system into accepting 9K loans with aggressive interest rates, that the Government have now said they can change the terms of retroactively, for education that is getting progressively worse in terms of standards of teaching and outcomes – would be falling into negative mental states.
Correct me if I’m wrong but hasn’t this figure been steadily growing over, oh I dont know, the past 5 to 10 years regardless of the impact that covid made?
Surely it’s mental illness that’s negatively affecting them, and not mental health?
When 50% of students claim negative mental health, are we not at the point that it isn’t a mental issue, but an inability to deal with the normal pressures of life? Students are famously pathetic for thinking they have to work hard for example.
I’m in my 60s and I don’t mean to sound insensitive but young people seem so fragile nowadays.
Why is that? Why do they want others to share their drama’s?
If I had a problem I’d get on with sorting it out. I’m obviously not talking about serious mental issues here but a lot of people seem to want their hands held all through their adult lives.
As opposed to… positively affecting?