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Great news for #mentalhealth in Oregon!
"Oregon will allow students to take "mental health days" just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S.
But don't call it coddling. The students behind the measure say it's meant to change the stigma around mental health in a state that has some of the United States' highest suicide rates. Mental health experts say it is one of the first state laws to explicitly instruct schools to treat mental health and physical health equally, and it comes at a time educators are increasingly considering the emotional health of students."
"Oregon will allow students to take "mental health days" just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S.
But don't call it coddling. The students behind the measure say it's meant to change the stigma around mental health in a state that has some of the United States' highest suicide rates. Mental health experts say it is one of the first state laws to explicitly instruct schools to treat mental health and physical health equally, and it comes at a time educators are increasingly considering the emotional health of students."
New bill allows Oregon students to take 'mental health days'
The students behind the measure say it's meant to change the stigma around mental health in a state that has some of the United States' highest suicide rates.
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We form defenses as adaptions to deal with pain in our childhood (and beyond). These defenses once protected us, but later in life they tend to hurt and limit us. However, we defend our defenses (which are often dysfunctional) because they give us the illusion of safety. This can make it very difficult to change.
