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The case for student mental health days | Hailey Hardcastle

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πŸ—“οΈ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout β€” 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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Haley Hardcastle discovered something about herself when she was just six years old,

0:43.9

an experience she's now using to help other young people be happier, healthier, and successful.

0:49.5

She's now a student mental health advocate.

0:51.7

And in her TEDx Salem talk from 2020, she shows how mental

0:55.6

health problems go way beyond our own personal lives and go on to shape entire communities.

1:01.8

In this talk, she offers a solution for all of us to better take care of ourselves.

1:09.1

When I was a kid, my mom and I made this deal.

1:12.6

I was allowed to take three mental health rest days every semester

1:16.7

as long as I continued to do well in school.

1:19.7

This was because I started my mental health journey when I was only six years old.

1:24.5

I was always what my grade school teachers would call a worrier, but later on we found out

1:29.7

that I have trauma-induced anxiety and clinical depression. This made growing up pretty hard. I was worried

1:36.4

about a lot of things that other kids weren't, and school got really overwhelming sometimes.

1:41.2

This resulted in a lot of breakdowns, panic attacks. Sometimes I was super productive,

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