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School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout — but there’s often no formal policy for students who need to prioritize their well-being. Hailey Hardcastle explains why schools should offer mental health days and allow students time to practice emotional hygiene without stigma. Follow along to learn how she and a team of fellow teens transformed their advocacy into law.
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DrBeeSpeaks
June 4, 2020 at 11:29 pm
Isn’t skipping class, not doing your homework and going shopping with your extra financial aid money like taking a mental health day for students?
mr_sendit7
June 4, 2020 at 11:32 pm
Mental health days? Grade school was the easiest time of my life. Everybody is becoming weak.
Alissa Hadley
June 4, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Mental health days definitely helped me a lot . I have anxiety and could get overwhelmed very easily . My mum was happy for me to have the occasion day off as long as I was missing nothing important at school that day and caught up at home . Always gave me a sense of control again.
Benedict Cumbersnatched
June 4, 2020 at 11:45 pm
Teachers need it too!!!
Tiamka 66
June 4, 2020 at 11:54 pm
Man schools don’t need those days, they are nothing compared to Bachelors, Masters or Doctor degrees which are way more serious in terms of deadlines and mental challenges. Kids constantly socialise and have fun together in schools, most don’t even do homeworks come on… And don’t tell me about suicide and mental health because my country Lithuania is the most suicidal in whole Europe. Instead better think about university students some of which suffer from monetary issues as well, rather than children in schools who are learning the basic skills for life and are looked after by parents.
Josh Semrok
June 4, 2020 at 11:56 pm
So a day off is the solution? I disagree it should be programs on how to be building habits, not taking time off when you feel like it.
Lisa Love Ministries
June 5, 2020 at 12:04 am
Meditate on the word and pray daily. Develop a personal relationship with Christ our LORD and only Savior.🌍
John 14:6 2Corinthians 10:5 Joshua 1:8
Bishop Prenton
June 5, 2020 at 12:05 am
I can understand this. It’s also a person to person issue. You’ll only ever know if there are problems if people are more open. It’s great she’s speaking on this issue.
2号あづさ
June 5, 2020 at 12:11 am
いいね！
LEV!ATHAN
June 5, 2020 at 12:17 am
They already have trigger warnings and safe spaces. Now they need to feel good about staying home and playing video games?
Jeffrey B
June 5, 2020 at 12:22 am
High school students that need mental health days?! Wait until you get into the real world. Suck it up. Adversity is what helps us grow as people.
Not Bob
June 5, 2020 at 12:33 am
Focus on fixing the problem instead of providing a bandaid solution.
세돗127
June 5, 2020 at 12:35 am
This is actually a great system because you can catch up with how well the students mental health are. In my country, Korea, they only made a classroom called ‘we-class’ and just put a teacher in there and wait for the students to come. It’s passive, and doesn’t do much. All it does they put a bunch of toys… and a LITTLE bit of counseling NOT TO DISTURB SCHOOL WORK…And the students think only dumb students go there. The point is that they should take it more seriously and make an active move. Also, in Korea, everyone think resting for mental health sounds stupid, which is discouraging… But we can always change and thank you for giving me insight about how to take care of students mental health.^_^
moptop guap
June 5, 2020 at 12:39 am
She’s fine asf
kiki pugh
June 5, 2020 at 12:40 am
This is amazing!
Josh Joslin
June 5, 2020 at 12:42 am
🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
DM C
June 5, 2020 at 12:52 am
Isn’t that why we have weekends?
Him
June 5, 2020 at 12:58 am
I’m only here because she’s pretty, and I’d love to… with her 🙊
Bradley Fitzik
June 5, 2020 at 1:04 am
Looking back I guess I took some mental health days too…but I just called it skipping class 😉
Kevin VR
June 5, 2020 at 1:07 am
Not a single eeuuhm…. IMPRESSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL!
The Mean Arena
June 5, 2020 at 1:09 am
Get rid of liberal teachers. You won’t need any mental health days.
Rochelle Athena
June 5, 2020 at 1:11 am
Great talk!
Daniel Fennec
June 5, 2020 at 1:18 am
Students needs to stop allowing Universities to feed them a horrific world-narritive then perhaps they won’t need these redicuous pampering sessions.
Luanda Sampaio
June 5, 2020 at 1:21 am
this is certainly for teachers as well!
Yummy
June 5, 2020 at 1:23 am
TRUE
Cooky
June 5, 2020 at 4:43 pm
I remember 9th grade, I’d had a rough month school-wise, we suffered a loss within the family and a test I was woefully unprepared for was coming up. My mom noticed how stressed I was and allowed me to take a day off, calling me in as sick. I had a day to relax and catch up on several things. It is strange, how something like not going to school, deviating from the daily schedule for a bit, helped me feel better.
Now with the pandemic and having school online, I never feel like I can take a day off and have suffered not just one, but two panic attacks in the last two months, my first and second ever. If there’s no set routine to take a step back from, things get harder to manage, and I’ve never wanted to go back to school this desperately, just to get a day away from my head.
Helena Uscanga
June 5, 2020 at 5:13 pm
This video is amazing and can actually change lifes. Thank you so much
i m
June 5, 2020 at 5:13 pm
School makes me so fucking depressed
Sineen Sajad
June 5, 2020 at 5:13 pm
It’s okay to not be okay.
Me
June 5, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Beautiful message
Big Dee
June 5, 2020 at 6:14 pm
More victim stories ???
SlovesL
June 5, 2020 at 6:17 pm
Ban social media. Problem solved.
Philipp T
June 5, 2020 at 8:47 pm
First of all this is pretty unrealistic. Second of all social media is not the only problem when it comes to mental health.
SlovesL
June 5, 2020 at 10:52 pm
Philipp T it’s pretty much the biggest reason for the rise/surge in mental health issues among the young. Why do you think developers don’t let their kids anywhere near their social media products?
Negar N
June 5, 2020 at 6:31 pm
I’m so glad to hear that somewhere in this world, some people trying hard for teaching self care to others, a I’m so sorry for my country, that even many adults don’t know what mental health is !
Gundam Wing
June 5, 2020 at 7:02 pm
Wow young people are so weak now
Milagros Vera
June 5, 2020 at 7:06 pm
Hello everyone. I´ve made a video about raising awareness about mental health issues, maybe it can help someone here <3 It´s on my channel. If it helped you please like it so that I can go to the Youth Leadership Forum and speak up about this topic. Thank you.
Leonard Delariva
June 5, 2020 at 7:15 pm
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Punctual Bunny
June 5, 2020 at 7:16 pm
I used to skip school all the time because of my anxiety and depression and loneliness. Nobody would understand.
Francis
June 5, 2020 at 7:49 pm
im the kind who would take 2 months of worth of mental health days then panicc 3 days prior to an exam
Highway Pro
June 5, 2020 at 8:13 pm
I disagree but she’s pretty
chille 3000
June 5, 2020 at 8:30 pm
People are so weak these days..
Moose
June 5, 2020 at 9:15 pm
What are the weekends for then?
Jay Time
June 5, 2020 at 9:17 pm
They need to send the high schoolers to 1st periods AFTER the pre-puperty grandschool kids get to school young kids need less sleep every parent knows that. O your hormonal teenage mess ok we will make you get up at 4:AM and young 5 get up at 11:00 for bus
erocean
June 5, 2020 at 10:17 pm
Mental health days are so necessary. One day, I was home and realized my brother didn’t go to school. When I asked him why he didn’t go, he said he felt sad and asked if he could just hung out with me. I was really surprised. He didn’t tell me why he was sad but I tried to cheer him up as much as I could.
Ati Cosmos
June 5, 2020 at 10:53 pm
It’s a tough area in the subject of mental health, if it’s done right it can work, but it can affect students in a negative way if done in a lazy way… it’s the tough love versus being gentle argument… not easy to know what’s right in each situation…
milena alvarez
June 5, 2020 at 10:57 pm
So thankful with this speech 🙏❤️
TauP.
June 5, 2020 at 11:26 pm
I don’t need mental health days, i already have drugs <3
Daniel Hertzler
June 5, 2020 at 11:53 pm
Don’t need mental health days. That’s what the weekend is for. There should be ZERO homework. The way we teach students needs to change. And what we teach needs updating. The world doesn’t need EVERYONE to have a degree. In fact, id say we need more skilled labor. Teach our kids what’s to REALLY be expected after high school, and get back into teaching trades in 9th or 10th grade. I understand SOME kids have truly special needs, but if we start coddling EVERY kid in that same way, I expect more harm than good will come of it.
Yz Lim
June 6, 2020 at 12:48 am
Well spoken!
George Kirkpatrick
June 6, 2020 at 12:54 am
Looks like I’m unsubbing, I don’t wanna hear bs like this.
Dave Fisher
June 6, 2020 at 1:14 am
That was WONDERFUL 👏👏👏
Hoa Hưng lê
June 6, 2020 at 2:41 am
i just focus on her face, so beautiful
Brendan McPike
June 6, 2020 at 2:42 am
Didn’t watch the video… but it’s called weekends.
〖JΘΣΓ DΔFΠQ〗彡
June 6, 2020 at 3:43 am
Why only students?
Giovana Paes
June 6, 2020 at 3:53 am
Isso foi muito inspirador…agora mesmo, estou na minha cozinha, pensando se deveria estudar inglew ou ver alguma coisa divertidada na internet, desde ontem, nao consigo produzir nada e isso me frustra, porque nao só eu, mas outras pessas tem uma espectativa em mim, as vezes acho q ñ posso alcançar-las mas em outro dia lá estou eu estudando um assunto importante de matemática, então é bem relativo, mas acho que se eu tivesse aprendido como me “autocuidar mentalmente”, embora nao saber muito ainda sobre, bem cedoz principalmente na escola, nao estaria passando por esses momentos que me sinto inutil por ñ fazer nada “produtivo no meu dia”…. Bom foi isso. Esse video foi muito esclarecedor
Tyrone W.
June 6, 2020 at 5:34 am
Bro wtf fine af
Noor ul amin
June 6, 2020 at 6:23 am
Loved it ..💜💜
bindass chokra
June 6, 2020 at 6:56 am
She’s cute.😋😋😋
Ian Stretch
June 6, 2020 at 7:45 am
Mental Health day? Such as when Vandalising the Cenotaph.
thamoor tmtm
June 6, 2020 at 7:48 am
ترجمه مافيه ؟
Dzaky Rahman
June 6, 2020 at 10:31 am
school: do i look care?
Alan
June 6, 2020 at 11:34 am
put your children in a third world countries to toughen up, what mental health?
Patrick Schott
June 6, 2020 at 12:50 pm
I teach secondary English and I use my sick and personal days off for mental health days at least once a quarter. When I get tired or run down, I take a day and just use it to relax and get into a good mindset moving forward- students should absolutely be able to do this too. Over the last few years there has been movement for better mental health in schools and this idea, along with many others, could be a step in the right direction.
Brian Wong
June 6, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Mental health problem is something that different stakeholders from the government should cooperate together to fight against. Agree that mental health days can definitely help some students slow down their pace and take a break.
Brian Wong
June 6, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Mental health problem is something that different stakeholders from the society should cooperate together to fight against. Agree that mental health days can definitely help some students slow down their pace and take a break.
Kelly Thao Van Tran
June 6, 2020 at 3:33 pm
The presenter-she’s so pretty
KRISHNA CHAITHANYA
June 6, 2020 at 5:00 pm
*Students* : _Have mental health problems_
Education system: *_Put some ice on it_*
Ayatollah
June 6, 2020 at 5:12 pm
Was this law also inaugurated in Africa?
Scottish potatoes
June 6, 2020 at 5:41 pm
I hope this becomes a thing because by the time a holiday comes I’m on the verge of a mental breakdown
Lucio Carlos Resende
June 6, 2020 at 7:37 pm
I’m a Brazilian and I would like to practice my English with a native speaker! Who wants to help me in this task?
VAIL VAIL
June 6, 2020 at 8:57 pm
I like her at all LOL
Eric W
June 6, 2020 at 9:58 pm
Students need mental health days? Give me a break snowflakes! People working in customer service actually need mental health days.
Errant Cognition
June 6, 2020 at 11:22 pm
Holding everyone’s hand and treating them like infants is just going to create a society of babies. We should be addressing the things that would cause “mental health days” to be necessary. If a student has an actual mental health condition (diagnosed by a doctor) they can get help through existing programs.
Peter Clark
June 7, 2020 at 12:27 am
I doubt if there has ever been a definitive study on the value of formal schooling. At least we wait until the pre-frontal cortex starts developing but beyond that science has not been fully utilised. I would suggest that only the four ‘R’ are actually required to be taught in a structured way; and then only to an entry level understanding. Booster lessons are available for any advanced levels of understanding. Those four are readin’ ‘ritin’, ‘rithmetic and reasonin’. The last being examples of logical fallacies, pitfalls, the human brain’s flawed processes etc.
Armed with the core basics a student could be exposed to real-life applications of each demonstrating compound uses of the four. This does not always require formal sit-down lessons and can rely on the natural youthful desire to be stronger each day. Because the only discipline worth having is self-discipline. The same internalisation applies to motivation, curiosity, expectation… Thus evaluation is replaced by a loose application of the Socratic method. Unruly, less motivated kids can be at liberty to play all day which is in itself a valuable teaching tool. Thus their young lives are not burdened with ill-informed adult expectations and science can be employed to improve the facilities, the lessons, delivery and material etc. Teachers are mostly replaced with mechanics, farmers, nurses, managers, clerks, professionals of all descriptions.
Kids are naturally motivated but so far we have failed to identify the human way to elicit the best from each mind that begins the journey into full development. The core passions of each child can find its expression and a better product will be the result.
K K
June 7, 2020 at 12:57 am
But I don’t know how to give cpr. I took mental health days when they taught that.
What a bunch of snowflakes.
Lady Tina
June 7, 2020 at 1:18 am
I know she’s focusing on *universities / schools* 👩🏫 but this is true with *adults in the 9 to 5 grind.*
I agree with this bright strong woman and I think corporate jobs can definitely adopt this as well which would in turn save the company money reducing costly turn over (plan on doing so for my future employees).🎯
Crystal Ashworth
June 7, 2020 at 1:18 am
💜
C. Logan
June 7, 2020 at 3:00 am
This is inspiring! A very good and helpful idea.
Wes Guill
June 7, 2020 at 3:54 am
Cute Cute.. Cute.. Cute Cute Cute!
HATIM BOOTWALA
June 7, 2020 at 4:10 am
Once in a while take a break 💜
Marcin A
June 7, 2020 at 10:33 am
We do not need mental health days, we need philosophy in the schools. First students of all kinds need to know why they actually need to learn and how decisions made in the youth life infuence the future. Mental health days are only days off – so minor impact in general. But unfortunately (for the business and politicians) philosophy would also help people understand all the relations between different facts and figures. People would become more self-aware with all of the consequences of this fact.
Rajak Solanki
June 7, 2020 at 11:01 am
✨✨Eyes are swollen…
Head is shocked…
Lips are smiling…
Hands are troubled…
Thoughts are busy with editing the music…
Senses turned senseless…
Fingers lost the prints…
Mind is under construction…
… Heart… Let it be… Quiet…
★ want to say… But… Not with words…
Want to express… But… Not with feelings…
Want to kill… But… Not with hands…
Want to cry… But… Not with tears…
Want to hide… But… Not with covers…
Want to sleep… But… Not with queries…
Want to rock… But… Not with old…
💗💗
##Chilhood habit of OVERTHINKING due to which everybody has a lot of problems… But i know how I handle…
#May everybody remain good mentally and physically both… If once one is mentally fit, physically it will be itself… 🤩🤩✨✨
yung chan
June 7, 2020 at 12:25 pm
teenage mental health is important that it will affect the build of them
Mike Oxlong
June 7, 2020 at 12:59 pm
The only reason students would need mental health days is due to the communist indoctrination they’ve been subject to since kindergarten… Its entirely the responsibility of liberalism being such a nasty and dead;y disease, in precisely the same way as communism.
Wendy Chen
June 7, 2020 at 5:37 pm
I agree with this. As someone who is a full time student and works full time as well, mental health is a must. At work, I have the option to unplug and have my “mental health check ins” by using my PTO. However, schools are not the same be it in Elementary to college/higher education. There was only 1 professor/teacher that I have had in my life (I am 28) that had mentioned how important self care and mental health is important. This is how students can do better and be happier with themselves – not to mention be more motivated and feel like their mental health actually matters.
IKap
June 7, 2020 at 8:25 pm
Brilliant
Badar Vlogs
June 7, 2020 at 8:51 pm
Thank u lady it’ll help me.:)
ICEGEL
June 7, 2020 at 11:12 pm
4:34 I have metal illness because of school works I feel I need some space and I’m absent in two meetings but when I back my prof in engineering drop me 😢.
Thanks to this ❤
TheToasties1
June 8, 2020 at 12:18 am
I Lost
Utopia
June 8, 2020 at 1:50 am
I second that!
Summer Dais
June 8, 2020 at 5:49 am
Before watching: My parents, particularly my dad, advocated for mental health days. No excuses. The only stipulations were it couldn’t be on a test day or day a project was due. He knew I didn’t require those stipulations, but he told the school this was our agreement. I was an excellent student, but I struggled with my mental health, migraines, terrible periods, and hypoglycemia.
Carlos Spicyweiner
June 8, 2020 at 7:43 am
Only students huh? Wait to you find out how much harsher the working world is!
David Cai
June 8, 2020 at 7:49 am
You know what, I think under the very situation of COVID-19, metal health care is of greater significance! cause so many fellow around me are getting some depression! never mind it`s clinical or not, worth attention from schools!
Mr_Reb3llion
June 8, 2020 at 11:15 am
Amazing. great concept.
Object 95
June 8, 2020 at 3:13 pm
Let show support here
You doing great, Keep going and get inspired
Scribe for Scribe 😌
E.D Thomas
June 8, 2020 at 6:53 pm
Anyone reading this comment should know that your voice matters just as much as Ms. Hardcastle’s. She delivered a powerful speech and her talk, as well as my TEDx talk ( @t ) should inspire you to take a leap of faith on yourself and voice your truths while inspiring others to do the same! God bless you all!
Laura Cain
June 8, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Saw title – came just to like the video.
No one star
June 9, 2020 at 1:04 am
I was over-worked and overwhelmed in college during the 90’s. I made a visceral, very real attempt to end it all, too, because… I barely had any friends, and all of my instructors focused on everything I WASN’T doing.
I ended up in the hospital, stomach being pumped. So.. yup, they “brought me back”. After that, I was treated with a mild apathy and mostly ignored.
It’s now 25 years later… and… I’m pretty much in the same position. No friends. No partner (she just left me, mostly due to her own mental illnesses)… and I’m treated with a sort of mild neglect and apathy.
So little has changed.
Interesting.
Siena B
June 9, 2020 at 1:28 am
243 dislikes are the schoolboards
Siena B
June 9, 2020 at 1:34 am
the rest of the school boards: oh to see without my eyes ︶👄︶
Michael Langer
June 9, 2020 at 2:10 am
What was her trama in her trama induced anxiety?
Eric
June 9, 2020 at 3:21 am
She’s so well spoken its insane
DIDI TUKI
June 9, 2020 at 4:35 am
she looks like meg donnelly
Question & Research
June 9, 2020 at 4:38 am
I know this is off subject but I just found out Orgean doesn’t have polling places.
Jesse S
June 9, 2020 at 5:56 am
I thought thats what weekends are for. Mind you I work 80 hour weeks still have time to workout and I love it.
Turd Ferg
June 9, 2020 at 6:15 am
Creating a generation of weaklings.
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
June 9, 2020 at 9:54 am
Thank you so much for talking of this argument and sharing your personal story. Lovely watching and listenng to you here on the top of Italian mountain.
Leo
June 9, 2020 at 7:31 pm
No Bronn seriously?
Shawn Carter
June 10, 2020 at 1:08 am
Children have become the limiting factor for intelligence.
Just Sophia
June 10, 2020 at 11:23 am
Nicely done, Hailey. It is good to see our youth initiating change around important issues, including mental health.