A procedure for mental health now being increasingly used at leading facilities is called ECT or electroshock. It has no FDA testing for safety or even effectiveness. Not just used for depression nor as a last resort. This is purely low voltage electrical trauma that impacts all bodily systems. 5 billion in revenues annually in US alone. Cover ups of harm for decades. Two class action law suits taking place in the US and in England. CA courts have proved brain injuries associated with devices used at minimum. Dr. Bennet Omalu famous for findings of CTE in the NFL is now on record stating similar outcomes anticipated in ECT patients given repeated brain injuries from electrical trauma. This is also used on our Veterans and children. There is an increase in suicide following this procedure. See you tube videos under heading ectjustice to learn more. Please contact the DK law group in CA if you have had ECT.
Given Covid many are at risk for being offered this procedure. Patients are showing damages on testing, and some are now being entered into TBI rehabilitation programs. Electrical trauma can evolve years out to include not just CTE, but ALS and other conditions. Please share and discuss on public social media so others can make informed decisions around their health care.
In Taylors article he also brings up statistics about bullying and relates it back to sucide. He says “ 19 percent of high school students had been bullied on school property and another 7.4 percent had attempted suicide.” Suicide is such a hard topic that when anyone brings it up, it hits hearts heavy. It is able to get into emotions and sway how others think. This statistic, while true, makes you believe once again that school induces suicide, which is not the case. People are getting bullied on school campuses, which can trigger a mental health issue. But school is not the only place a student is getting bullied. If we let students take the mental health day, they still have access to social media, the internet, television, all of which are other ways that students get bullied and can bring on emotions to cause a mental illness. A mental health day seems to be treated as a sick day. A day where you are allowed to be at home and just have a day to yourself in a way. By doing this, you are more likely to influence a trigger to a mental illness than school would because as said before, you are leaving that child alone for a day and by leaving them all by themselves, especially if they are not in a good mental state makes them more prone to suicide than school would. There's people at school for them to talk to, they can't do this alone in a house all day.
I believe giving students the option of taking a mental health day should be allowed during the school year. It would be an opportunity that many students would benefit from. they could use the day as a break or take that day to catch up on school work. Either way, it would be beneficial in numerous ways. This would allow many students to feel in control of their schoolwork and would reduce the amount of stress they feel academically.
Personally, I am all for mental health days being allowed during the school year. One student in this article suggested a day or two in which a student can take an excused day off in the name of mental health and I agree that this would be the most effective way of allowing these days off. Those who were against the idea of mental health days had obviously never experienced the crippling anxiety and depression other students have. They tell others to "get over it" to "grow up" and "that's just life" but they don't understand what it is like to be a teenager living with mental health issues while still having to put in the effort to do good in school. It is not just stress that pushes these students to take days off for their mental health but the exhaustion of having to juggle their mental health, school work, social interactions, and other outward pressures on a daily basis.
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I strongly believe students should have mental health days. I myself struggle with anxiety and some days it is too overwhelming to focus on my school work or even attend to school. Ive known many people who suffer from other illnesses such as depression and ive seen how tough it can be for them to do daily things. I think its important that students and people in general should take care of themselves so they should allow them to have days off because it will be beneficial
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When a student tells us there is a stigma associated with mental illnesses, we know we adults have passed that prejudice on.
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