to feel quite shocked that DH has PTSD from teaching?

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Its feels pretty awful tbh. He has just today received this diagnosis and has been referred for priority EMDR.

He has taught for 25 years in a secondary school, and got out last year due to clinically diagnosed burn out.

I knew it was bad, but I never realised it was this bad.

How can this be allowed to happen?

No, we've reported your comments because you're deliberately being offensive.

This.

You are either completely delusional or a massive troll.

Could you tell me how iv offended you please as all iv actually said is your health is more important then any job and I will always stand by that

This makes me really sad and angry. I’ve been teaching since 1994 but have been lucky enough to work in a very supportive and stimulating independent school. It’s tiring and challenging, as all teaching is, but it’s fulfilling and rewarding. Something has to change.

You haven't offended me love. Your opinion means absolutely nothing to me.

But your refusal to read comments and just repeat yourself over and over despite being asked to stop is fucking annoying.

I'm glad you are working in a nice supportive school environment. Maybe that's the answer for some people change schools rather then leave teaching all together

Also not offended. But your posts have been offensive.

My 14 year old has diagnosed PTSD from her short time in a mainstream secondary so I can absolutely understand.

Which part the putting your health first part

Well done in making the thread about you and not teachers 👏

I'm so sorry to hear this I hope you've taken them out of the school

I’m sorry OP. Wishing your husband all the best for a steady recovery. It’s tough. I know many talented teachers who’ve departed for similar reasons. I left teaching when I went on mat leave and was determined not to return. It took me six years to even start missing it. Six years!

The thread is about mental illness

I said the same about health but you’ve not considered the bigger picture. We all know health is more important than a job but if you have a mortgage and responsibilities, you cannot just down tools and find any lower paying job. If you have kids settled in schools, you cannot risk uprooting them or losing their home.
The teachers here are saying their mental health has been impacted so the ability to feel confident and apply for jobs and make huge life changing decisions is affected.
If you are a single person or single parent, the burden is even higher. It is only you.

So yes, if a job is severely impacting your mental health, of course you should leave but it’s naive not to realise how many people are trapped and cannot leave.

It also doesn’t resolve the systemic issues with teaching and education.

Mental illness in teaching.

I am not a teacher nor am I married to one. I have no skin in this game. Even I can see it’s a thread highlighting the issues in the system.

This is an excellent post but my bigger picture is if you don't make these changes before the mental breakdown happens you will literally lose everything

Sometimes you can’t though. Sometimes you don’t notice mental illness sneaking up on you. You accept that it’s normal for you.

Also a lot of people on here aren’t talking about mental breakdowns where they are totally incapacitated. They are talking about symptoms of various mental illnesses that they are experiencing every day. That is such a hard and exhausting way to live and even if it doesn’t lead to a breakdown, it’s still not how anyone should live. Do you want your children being taught by someone who has been up all night in a panic and having nightmares and has sobbed all the way to work? On a human level, that makes me so sad. It shouldn’t be like that but it is normalised in some professions including teaching.

Exactly this I don't want my children taught by people like that and I don't want people living like that and like iv previously said multiple times there needs to be systemic changes but that responsibility doesn't fall on any one individual so these people need to be protecting themselves and their families above anything else. Hopefully under a labour government things will improve only time will tell on that. But at somepoint you have to accept the things you can't change and focus on the things you can

You do realise getting everyone to gang up on an individual for them having a difference of opinion is bullying right

To the teachers on this thread, you’re not over sensitive or weak and we appreciate you whether you are sticking it out or you have left.

It is a massive problem that so many of you that have trained so hard to enter this profession are feeling forced to leave and shows how rotten things have got.

I really hope as a society we can move towards backing that verbal appreciation with real tangible change and achieve far better conditions in your working conditions. This will take the involvement of politicians, parents and taxpayers.

I'm not surprised. This is my 25th year. I recall a training session on domestic violence and when I saw the slide about how the woman feels I was staggered. That's how it feels in the classroom when you are teaching children who respond violently.

The only difference is, I get to go home at the end of the day.

Teachers as a profession tend to be conscientious.

This is where a lot of the mental health issues come from. They try to constantly do their best. But it’s undoable and so they crack.

It’s nothing to do with being weak.