In school did any teacher damage your mental health?
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I had a French teacher in junior high school who went on a angry tirade in front of the whole class about how he was sick of my bad attitude. His issue: I never smiled. My responses were dull (emotionally flat) and disinterested.
I was struggling with depression back in 1988 (I think that was the year I was in grade 7). I had just been failed the previous year, so I had lost all my friends (they were in grade 8 now) and was doing grade 7…again. Mental health wasn’t something that was widely understood back then.
I felt even worse after his tirade, like I was expected to suddenly be something I wasn’t. I started responding with smiles that never reached my eyes. The fake kind. He gave up after that.
Things have improved since then. There’s a Bell Let’s Talk day on Twitter (now called X?).
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I was verbally destroyed by two teachers, long story but
It changed my view of life because of their attack on me
developed sadness and depression instantly ,later on psychosis
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Oh, at least half of them I’m sure. No one knew what autism was back in the seventies and eighties.
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I didn’t deserve what they did to me, I wonder about them sometimes
I don’t. I have moved on.
I moved on too, just memories pop up now and again
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One of my instructors took it upon himself to force me to put in more hours on his subject. I was beyond tired. and it affected me.
No, but I probably damaged a few teachers’ mental health.
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we have all different pasts such is life
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I’ll never forget this.
My second grade teacher slammed my head onto the top of my desk just because she was getting frustrated with me not understanding my class work lesson
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Sorry to hear it. Very sad when people who are supposed to educate us are so ignorant about mental health. 
long story but it was a turning point in my life
I had such a nice kindergarten and 1st grade teacher. I didn’t like my 2nd grade teacher. I can’t even remember why, but I don’t think she liked me and I used to skip class. My other teachers were nice.
Yes definitely.
I had teachers who bullied me with the other students.
Not many teachers were professional or good stuff.
I’m against the school system.
For minorities like me should never have to deal with those disgusting people.
I should have been home schooled if I wanted schooling by teachers I choose and approve of and mutual respect and nice behaviour to each other.
Otherwise I should only be with people who with out a shadow of a doubt are not out to get me in various ways.
School sucks !
Now most of the kids seem to be stuck up ugly nazis.
In a Swedish school the students were saying they want to kill Jews and when the teacher told them to leave the classroom they said she was a Jew and threatened her so she had to leave the room.
Stuck up hateful nazis everywhere in this neighbourhood of bullies too.
I’m excluded but that’s a good thing.
I’m not ok with their yucky stuck up ugly behaviour n don’t want part in or be around such.
The yucky ones are everywhere.
I’m pretty alone.
Always have been.
A lot of maths teachers
My sex education teacher was a pervert, she’s disgusting
2 teachers damaged my mental health when I was younger. They were tricked into do it though… So I forgive them.
2 prep school headmasters, most certainly.
The 1st one: I’m sitting quietly waiting for him to start the lesson. Some other boys are making a racket. He approaches me looking angry and demands ’ What are you doing?’ I tell him ‘nothing’ as in I wasn’t one of those making a lot of noise. His response ‘you should’ve been doing something, go to my study’ (to be caned) I went to his study utterly bewildered and upset. He relented and the caning didn’t happen, but I shouldn’t have been put in that position in the 1st place
The 2nd prep school headmaster: Last term at prep school I do what’s very hard for me . Get friendly with another boy. He was 10 months younger than me. An innocent hand on his shoulder is regarded as ‘gay’. I’m treated in a publicly humiliating way. It was awful
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Several of them.
One said that atleast I’ll be a good housewife.
(FU** her) Now I do study at university.
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