![]() You need to put in the hours now and it will pay off in the future, right? But what they neglect to tell us is you will not do your best if you are too focused on grades and stop learning because you enjoy the content. If I had a penny for every time I thought ‘I need to do another hour of revision tonight, I bet others have done double the amount I have’, I would be rich enough to bypass this whole education experience and live the rest of my years reading my classic books in a mansion.Ī stress-free future never comes as we just move from one exam to the next.Ī fear of failure means that we have never done enough work. The hard work never ends as there is always more you can do. But this stress-free future never comes as we just move from one exam to the next, one level of education to the next until we are eventually expected to be a fully formed adult at the end with absolutely no skills except how to memorise bond angles. This long slog continues for years while we tell ourselves it’ll all be worth it, and that we’ll have time to relax in the future. We spend hours and hours leading up to it revising late into the night only to wake up early the next day to repeat the tedious, exhausting process all over again. Exams mean that our grade, if we get into university and our whole future rely on a few weeks going well. Many students have probably been failed by the education system in the same way. This will probably come to no surprise to you, but this has ruined my mental health. You may have seen the ‘sad gifted kid burnout’ TikTok trend. ![]() I thought that in order to be worthy I needed that A*. I stopped working hard because I enjoyed my subjects but because I placed all my worth on my grades. This was something everyone came to expect from me, but I never felt I could keep up with their expectations. Now I was never labelled as gifted however I consistently got very high marks on my school tests. ![]() I have loads of different hobbies such as cross stitch and jewellery making and often get frustrated if I cannot perfect them instantly (which is why crochet is not currently on my list of hobbies). I like to read classic books mostly because I love them but there may be some part of me that subconsciously thinks it is superior. As I watched the videos under this hashtag, I started to realise that I related to many of them. People show their mountains of classic novels they read to appear smart to others, their many hobbies they tried to master and their grades gradually decreasing from A*’s to D’s. If, like me, you spend way too much of your free time on TikTok you may have seen the ‘sad gifted kid burnout’ trend. Dearest readers, we are chuffed as little appleseeds to introduce this blog from a young person and volunteer – Ella McCarthy. It’s for this reason that we welcome guest blogs from people of all ages to share their mental health story with us. In the 4 years we have been a charity, we have seen a huge shift in attitudes with this stigma, but there is a long way yet to go. The more we speak, the easier it becomes and the less stigma there is attached to these discussions. Here at The Creative Mental Health Charity, PoetsIN, we are all about open and honest discussion when it comes to our mental health.
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