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Mental Health Support

hunter

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4. I was "asked" to take time off from school twice for mental health reasons.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Nov 11, 2022, 01:59 PM

Nov 2022

There was an implied threat of permanent expulsion, but I never felt any doors were being slammed in my face.

Maybe they figured I wouldn't come back, but I persisted.

It took me nine years to graduate.

The Ivy League colleges coddle all sorts of incurious sociopaths who will never make the world a better place, yet they pressure people with mental health problems to withdraw?

This entirely artificial "survival of the fittest" mentality is destroying this nation.

First exhibit: Ron DeSantis

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'What if Yale finds out?' Suicidal students are pressured to withdraw from Yale ... [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Anon-C Nov 2022 #1

Is there something in that state's law that says the school has to be notified? tulipsandroses Nov 2022 #2

Yale Medical Center IbogaProject Nov 2022 #3

I learned something new today. I had to do some research because it didn't make sense to me that tulipsandroses Nov 2022 #5

I was "asked" to take time off from school twice for mental health reasons. hunter Nov 2022 #4

Mostly because of our misguided ideas about who the 'fittest' are. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Nov 2022 #6