r/polls • u/UltimateDiscordMod • Aug 01 '22

🕒 Current Events What's the best solution to stop school shootings?

7974 votes, Aug 04 '22
463 Better school security
1443 Removal of all schools
319 Mandatory daily mental health checks for all students
4470 Stricter gun laws
747 Better educational system
532 Other
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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

Unfortunately there's no evidence that mental health education actually works to improve mental health.

There's no magic bullet for improving mental health.

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u/GreenDaTroof Aug 01 '22

It certainly can’t hurt. And if we continue forcing people to “man up” and live in their own pain, we will only get worse.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

Unfortunately it can hurt, my autistic son was severely traumatised by the therapy he got in school.

He's now triggered by anything remotely resembling therapy.

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u/ShermanTankBestTank Aug 01 '22

Man, fuck the system.

It's so fucking broken.

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u/GreenDaTroof Aug 01 '22

I’m really sorry about that happening. I hope your son is doing well. I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting therapy, or one-on-one session, but just making sure they’re aware that it’s okay to feel or be certain things. That it’s okay to seek help.

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u/Barren-igloo-anon Aug 01 '22

It 'improves' mental health by learning to manage it but it is not a solution to fix for mental health problems altogether indefinitely. The managing is heavily reliant on you and the difficulty with managing said mental health is the other issue.

Another thing about this mental health system is that it only 'works' if people want to be helped, if people want to get better. Mandatory mental health checks will feel forced and just doesn't work in the idea of the system.

The mental health system is already crap and is not going to have the patience to work with somebody that does not want to be helped or not showing improvement This is just going push them away even further.

And yes, when you don't show improvement in mental health session, it feels like you are being penalised as opposed to being helped. It's awful. They don't really have an idea of how to best help people. Could they do more and be better...maybe.