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?

I don't think a single teacher will be shocked or surprised by this.

If you aren't at the chalk face you have no idea of the stress levels and workload involved.

I'm getting out after 30 years. Come the 1st of September I am free.

Well yes. 14 extra will do that. And no school should make you do that in practical subjects. They don’t have to. They don’t have to accept pupils over roll. Or was it a shortage of staff?

I'm not surprised - my daughter only taught for a couple of years and developed severe stress and anxiety. She's still in education but not classroom teaching and is so much better.
Wishing you and your husband all the best

I think your mistaking poor mental health and mental illness. Poor mental health everybody has at different points of their life mental illness and a mental health crisis are very different. You may think people are working in the middle of a mental breakdown but they really aren't however if you feel that may happen to you walk away. A person kills themselves every 40 seconds in the UK. Mh isn't a game you really want to do that to your kids. However if it's not that bad and your just a bit stressed then you've got to decide whether it's something you can manage or not. I know several teachers some are fine and thriving and love their jobs others don't it's not for everyone. I don't understand on a post about ptsd where I'm literally saying protect yourself it's not worth it think of your children. That your saying my attitude is why your life is hard. That's really bizarre

I loved my job. I did it for 33 years. Then I couldn’t anymore because I properly burnt out. For at least 5 years before that I had symptoms of mental health issues looking back.

I'm glad you got out when you did it was obviously the right time for you and I hope your happier in your new job

Several years ago, the local private school suddenly closed. We had parents offering all sorts to get their kids in - which was entirely unnecessary, even in the full years. We just let them in.

So no, we're not even remotely concerned.

They have mortgages though and families. So they can’t leave. Or maybe they do it to piss you off?

I actually hope they do.

Doesn't surprise me. I did 13 years and it broke me. I had cPTSD going in to teaching but it certainly did me no favours. I've now got to rethink my next career move and a lot of people have suggested going back to teaching. No fucking way, and I'm a very shortage subject.

I’m not surprised either. Can’t understand anyone who wants to be a teacher.

I left ten years ago with burnout after running a secondary school computer system.

the head teacher was a complete cow (hope she rots in hell).

hope your husband gets better OP.

You do realise your posts make no sense why would someone I don't know ruining their life piss me off? I have a mortgage I'm not a teacher other jobs pay money to. Jobs with less stress, jobs where you don't take work home, jobs that don't cause ptsd and mental breakdowns.

We are in a staffing crisis as well especially in some core subjects

I'm a HLTA and I taught science for a year for ks3 due to lack to staff due to medical. We couldn't get any supply teachers in

Not at all surprised. I started having panic attacks and developed terrible insomnia when I was a teacher.

Just to let your DH know, there is life, and plenty of worthwhile career opportunities, after teaching. I now work for a professional membership body, managing their learning and development programmes. Use all my best teacher skills in a much calmer environment.

And are you happy now, are you glad you left, can you still pay your mortgage because certain people on here seem to think leaving to improve your health isn't a possibility

I notice, @Differentstarts , you are avoiding the issue of your children potentially not having a teacher next year.

The solution isn't for teachers to change jobs, it's for the job to change.

I took some time out. I did supply for a few years. I have now given up.
New job? Are you serious? The effects of teaching on mental health don’t go away if you do a different job. Plus - have you any idea how impossible it is for someone over 55 to get an interview, never mind a job?
I’ve had to take my pension early, losing loads via actuarial reduction, and I’m leaning on a small inheritance until my state pension comes in.
I was an excellent teacher.
You clearly have no idea.

I haven't avoided that I said they will have teachers next year as currently their are 641,840 teachers working in the UK right now and their are teachers who do like their job. The point I'm trying to get across is if it is making a person so unwell to the point they are diagnosed with ptsd then they need to leave. Yes in an ideal world it would be better if it was a nicer environment to work in but at this present time it isn't so a person staying in a job that is detrimental to their health and to their own family makes no sense when they have the choice to leave.

So what's your answer stay teaching even if it's detrimental to your health or get out sooner and start over and hopefully be happy.

I haven't avoided that I said they will have teachers next year as currently their are 641,840 teachers working in the UK right now and their are teachers who do like their job.

But that is avoiding it. Because it is not true that all children will have teachers next year. Not in the slightest.

Don't confuse there being an adult in the room with having a teacher, by the way.

It creeps up. And you have financial commitments so just leaving isn’t that easy. My solution is to make the system less toxic.

My children do have actual teachers for September but it is not your responsibility whether their is enough teachers in the whole of the uk maybe if more of you left the government might actually step up and change things

There’s a recruitment and retention crisis and has been for years. The last government did not step up.

And how you going to do that because hasn't it been like this for decades

Hopefully this government will improve thing for you all.

’my solution’ doesn’t imply I’ll do it myself. Just that it needs to happen or the situation will get worse.