The case for student mental health days | Hailey Hardcastle

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh and you're listening to Ted Health.
0:14.0	Haley Hardcastle discovered something about herself when she was six years old,
0:18.0	an experience she's now using to help other young people be happy, healthy, and successful. She's now a student mental health
0:24.9	advocate and in her TEDx Salem talk from 2020, she shows how mental health problems go way
0:31.2	beyond our own personal lives and go on to shape entire
0:34.4	communities. She offers a solution for all of us to better take care of ourselves.
0:42.4	Hey listener, a quick favor. ourselves.
0:45.0	Hey listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey,
0:46.0	and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.
0:50.0	Please visit survey.
0:52.0	PRX.org
0:54.0	slash health to take the survey today.
0:56.7	That survey dot PRX dot org
0:59.0	slash health.
1:00.4	Thanks. When I was a kid, my mom and I made this deal.
1:05.0	I was allowed to take three mental health rest days every semester
1:10.0	as long as I continued to do well in school.
1:12.0	This was because I started my mental health as long as I continued to do well in school.
1:13.1	This was because I started my mental health journey
1:15.4	when I was only six years old.
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