Mental Health In Schools Case Study

For the first few years in high school, Caroline had trouble speaking to her teachers for help, had issues expressing her thoughts and feelings to her friends, and didn’t like large crowds in the school’s hallway because of how much it affected her anxiety. During her senior year her school introduced a new class that promoted the need of learning about one’s mental health and, because of this, Caroline took that class in hopes it would help her recognize and learn how to deal with her mental struggles and how to manage her thoughts and feelings. After high school, Caroline was able to take on the real world starting with a confident step into college. Schools should allow classes about mental health because students need to know that mental …show more content…
First, learning about mental health not only boosts one’s knowledge about mental health and how to manage it, but it also boosts their knowledge about physical and social health and how all three sides of the ‘Health Triangle’ (mental, physical and social health; as learned in normal health class) correspond with one another. Students that better understand their mental health can also take better care of the two other sides of their Health Triangle. Knowing about all three sides can benefit one’s outlook on life and how one takes on life in the real world as they get older. Second, as students get older and become teenagers they begin to learn new things about themselves that they never knew before, for instance, a teenage girl learning that she has anxiety when passing large groups of other teens in the hallway or a boy becoming majorly depressed because he lost a parent or someone close to him, or a different incident has occurred. Students like this or students that have a different illness can learn ways of how they can take better care of themselves or try to change to make things better; sometimes taking personal days off of school or work or talking to someone can possibly help this happen along with other help from professionals. Last, people that have mental illnesses may have it to where they can’t do their normal daily function without the need of someone else’s help. In today’s society people that have mental illnesses are neglected or thought of as worthless beings because they are not as ‘perfect’ as the people who think of them as so. In addition, most people lack the knowledge of how important it is to care about one’s mental health when some of the people themselves probably don’t care about their own. If mental health classes were taught in schools today there might not be that lack of knowledge and can become more common among those