Does this look familiar?

[@youngmindscharity]

Thank you to everyone for commenting on our #TellOfsted campaign video. Your support means a lot to us. We hope that together we can make mental health a priority in our schools. If you need support with your mental health, please visit our website at youngminds.org.uk/find-help

[@kennedyrogers4641]

Thank you dan and young minds for raising awareness about this issue in school. I’ve dealt with some of these scenarios and parents and teachers usually don’t care because “you have the ability to do it, you just aren’t trying/don’t care”. I think we should get this video played to teachers and schools everywhere on teacher in service days

[@flaurelmusic]

Dan Howell brought me here! Thank you Dan and Young Minds for spreading mental health awareness and talking about these important issues. I have ADHD and anxiety and having to retake my required core classes started stressing me out really badly back in October. No one really did much to help. I’m much better now and taking two classes I actually WANT to take this semester. I might quit school after that and I’m not sure what exactly I’m going to do. I wish we had organizations like this in the USA! Much love from here outside of Washington DC! 💖

[@misslaura1681]

Im glad that this video exists as Someone who struggles with anxiety and depression for 2 years now this hits Close to home. Altough dutch schools are verry caring about mental health the big goal is still to fix you. Wich is a good but also a bad thing. As far as i know it’s something i have to learn to deal with for the rest of my life altough i take medicenes and speak to a pscychologist every week. Since it’s not something that is easily fixed. So i can’t guarentee the straight A result while i am figuring out how to deal with it. But im glad to know mental health is now something we can discuss rather then acting like it doesn’t exist

[@floatingfrog_]

it really does i really felt that

[@rosalyntiangco3021]

this hit hard. i wish i could see more wanting of change where i live

[@RebeccaHibbert-j1v]

This video actually made me tear up. I have worked in schools all my life and love working with young people, but this is exactly what schools are like. They are obsessed with perfect attendance, perfect uniform, perfect results and set ridiculously high standards. The standards are so high it achieves the complete opposite, it makes young people feel worthless and "never good enough". It doesn't matter what a young person is going through, they are expected to just "get to lesson". Schools need to change. Young people, there are staff out there that care about you, you are wonderful and you are more than good enough!!!

[@frostqop]

This needs to be seen in EVERY school. I also liked how they included teachers at 0:32 - 0:51 , anyone can have a mental health issue, just not everyone can see it. And we NEED more people to see it. They can talk to them or just be there for them. They can help us. Edit: and thank you to Dan Howell and Young Minds for wanting to help raise awareness about mental health.

[@paigechandler9045]

I'm not crying, you're crying

[@theultimatelifeform4121]

We're all crying

[@happyreptile3395]

honestly, preach this shit. My school was so good at providing me space and time and help when i needed it because we were fortunate enough to have a strong head who dealt with mental health as a priority. i was so grateful for all they did and it made me sad thinking that some schools just ignore mental health because its not results or an ofsted score. we go to school to be educated and taken care of, in the day we are the responsibility of that institution and it is their responsibility to keep the conversation of mental health open and alive. period.

[@aki.mono_1344]

Hhhhhhhh bless your head, your school is so lucky ;-;

[@dyamimite]

Our version of 'mental health care' (in a public high school in aus less than ten years ago) was to be sent to a chaplain. A religious person, who told us, as answer to every problem, that we basically needed to pray, or to convert. Because they were public (and we're a secular country), they held fundraisers to keep her every year, and you were expected to donate because that's *all* you had, and for a lot of the kids, it was all that kept them together.

[@JS-kx6um]

I can’t emphasise enough how important this is. My mental health fell apart when I reached high school. I suffered anxiety/ocd, depression, insomnia and an eating disorder for so long and nobody noticed. I dealt with it alone because I was so ashamed and thought people would be mad, I thought I’d be kicked out of school or home. To deal with those thoughts and feelings, I self harmed and had suicidal thoughts, and even attempted a couple of times. It wasn’t until it was almost too late before I seemed help. As someone who went through that, I just wish we’d had mental health education in school. I wish we were taught how to recognise an abusive relationship and how to deal with it. How to handle severe bullying. Coping strategies for anxiety and depression, two too-common illnesses, where 1 in 5 people (in my country, Australia, at least) will experience them at some time in their lives. How to help your family and yourself when they lose someone. All these very relevant and important things that, if left untouched, can spiral into much worse things. I’m now in a far better place, and want to fight for people who aren’t. Young Minds, thank you, so much, for doing the same. Maybe it won’t be in my generation, or even the next, but there is going to be a day when mental health becomes a compulsory subject. Where life skills, such as getting a job and buying a house for the first time, are taught to us, so that when we’re released into the real world, we can do everything we dreamed of. You are bringing that day even closer, thank you :) #tellofsted

[@danshakulawrence983]

I love how the video displays messages that don't mean bad things in typical context, but the video displays the real context, the one no one wants to talk about. Well, except for us.

[@liberty2265]

thank you young minds, dan and anyone else who is raising awareness about this. as someone who has dealt with many of these situations, i really appreciate the fact that people are actually trying to make schools a better place for students. most teachers at my school don’t care about students’ emotional state and just care about whether they’re passing the class or not. a few select people actually care and respect their students and i really value those teachers. but again, thank you.

[@jax1110]

thank you so much YoungMinds for this wonderful video and for Dan Howell for bringing me, and many others, here. Thank you Dan for always using your platform for good

[@lionesskathyok4557]

makes me think of the time i told my teacher that one of my friends was depressed, stressed, didn’t eat AND self harmed, but he refused to seek help and it started to weigh down me and my friends a lot too. teacher just said ”we can’t do anything, he has to tell his parents”.

[@anyrarahman5481]

This video's message was loud and clear. Young minds have outdone themselves. And of course Dan Howell, he outdone himself by bringing us here.

[@juliaabcdefg7550]

i wish there were organizations like this where i live

[@flaurelmusic]

Julia Lirsch Same

[@khyatit6528]

Hit hard rn. It’s 3:30 am and I’m crying while seeing it. It’s depressing , emotional pain, losing self esteem and confidence. It’s true.

[@charlo_.p3115]

Preach 👏🏻👏🏻. I have been speaking about this at school and i am going to do my best to make the school a better place . I really want to protest about this problom as so many are suffering in silence without the support for mental helath issuses . THIS MUST CHANGE !!

[@charloot9799]

Thanks Dan for supporting this! I have severe anxiety and Aspergers which stops me from going to school a lot of the time. Depression makes it so hard to be motivated to do my school work, all my teachers are saying I am very capable and should be aiming for higher marks. I hate this kind of pressure it makes me so much worse a lot the time, I just can’t do it. The constant socialisation of school means I can’t concentrate because of the sounds and my Aspergers brain is constantly working even when the classroom is quiet my brain is subconsciously analysing everything. I get home and I fall asleep for hours. Which means I can’t do homework. I basically just pass out. The anxiety comes out in so many different ways I had a close call with disordered eating last year, but thanks to an amazing dietitian who understood the mental side of it, I got through it. I still get symptoms of it here and there but I am mostly stable. It’s very hard to get up in the morning and get ready for school and a lot of the time I don’t make it there even with support and medication. The biggest motivator for me to go to school is my friends, they always make me laugh and support me through rough times, they ring me and text me in the morning asking if I am okay and if I am coming to school, no one asked them to do that. I am very lucky to have such good friends.

[@microsofterror880]

Thank you Daniel Howell and Dorothy Clark for making millions aware of these things.

[@AbbyTheBee]

I hope soon enough the whole world realizes how important mental health is.

[@lizadavis4345]

We had ofsted about a week ago at our school and we told them about how mental health isn’t talked about at our school. I hope to see change...

[@Allison-xf7ry]

Thank you dan. I believe in this wholeheartedly.

[@nxcole8420]

We lost someone in our school due to suicide about a month ago now and I feel like we need this to help prevent things like suicide from happening because no one should have to feel that way nor feel the need to end their life.

[@valeenti]

Thank you so much for this video. Blessing from Peru

[@cameron4911]

thank you for this, i found it through dan's instagram page and this is honestly one of the most important videos on the internet

[@Blueflare06]

I was one of the top students in high school and it was really stressful. I'm not sure if anything could change but I did go to an advisor to tell my story. It's still kind of the same for college but I can pick my own classes which I'm glad for. It was also my parents that expect high things from me and now they're more understanding because I went to a psychologist and had some mental illness.

[@aliciahowell]

As a student that is in a school where teachers are not making mental health a priority issue, this video just gave me hope

[@jax1110]

KZbin: PUT THIS ON THE 1# TRENDING SPOT, MAKE ALL SEE!

[@silentmockingjay]

Yes it does.

[@hotcheetossuck]

It’s the Uk schools who care, America ones don’t, especially for me, thanks though

[@natalied7444]

THIS NEEDS MORE VIEWS

[@leekyeemo8714]

A G R E E D

[@selmanylund2931]

I got goosebumps by watching this... I can't even express how much I want school to think about mental healt. We constantly have to have good grades, do homework and tests and also have a lot of friends and we have to get enough sleep. My mental health is so bad rn but it doesn't seem like anyone cares because the school is so big i just drown in the crowd. I get easily owerwhelmed by all the people aswell and get anxiety all the time. My friend has depression and she's only 15 and i don't know if anyone is doing anything about that.. Sorry for being so negative but my life is a mess rn.

[@sophiaslavin2195]

We really do need to take notice of mental health as it is a big part of our lives. I would know...

[@dani_dazed]

So important!!

[@kaleidoskull_]

I want to make my school better for the people who need it, sadly enough I'm having my exam soon, so I never had the best help in the time I needed it.

[@samanthabecker461]

I go to a college prep school so we are all expected to do amazing and be perfect. I remember one of my friends took the act and got a 28. She was crying and having a panic attack when she saw her score. She kept saying it wasn’t high enough. Our school talks about mental health but not how schools affect it. They talk about how we can change it, not how schools can change. At our school, our identity is our grade, it defines everything and our future. Why isn’t anything changing?

[@SimplySammyK]

I was pushed out of everything in school. Teaches didn't even notice me, when so called "friends" started bullying me daily I stopped going to classes altogether. the school never reported my absence to my parents and never said a word when I didn't show for some exams.. I really enjoyed science though, I got my grades in science and weirdly used those grades to go into college and study music. I had the belief that I'd be fine when I leave school. I'd be the person I wanted to be and everything will get better. What a mistake that was, I regret not ending my life at 15, now 15 years later, I have nothing, I have no one and I can't even get a job. No one talks to me. nothing has changed, it's only gotten worse.. I hate myself for living

[@Dannyyee9967]

You are incredibly strong, remember that❤️

[@lizrotherham2135]

Very powerful video thank you for sharing. It's so important to young people talking and to share experiences in Mental Health

[@witchofchaosss]

I know this isn’t as extreme as some other people’s stories but I want to share this anyway. I’m in my 3rd year of secondary school, which means I am facing my Junior Cert this year (EXAMS). Here in Ireland we have a class called SPHE once a week. It is kind of like health/wellbeing class. My class have the student counselor as our teacher, yet we are more stressed about exams than any other class in my year. He talks about nothing but exams and doesn’t take into consideration how worried he is making us. He shows us stuff about what we want for our future even though our results this year don’t go towards our future, they are meerly practise for Leaving Cert. The entire year he hasn’t spoken once about our mental health and how to stay positive during this year. I almost had a breakdown during one of his classes because I was so upset, but he didn’t even notice. I still like him as a person but I wish he wasn’t the guidance/ school counselor. He clearly doesn’t understand a 15 year olds mentality being told all the shit he’s said PLUS the stress from other teachers too. I hope he never teaches another SPHE class and if he does, I’ll be first in line to complain. Sorry this was a bit long, I just hate that teacher so much. Since you have made it this far, I will reward you with a treat of your choice 1.🍕🍕🍕🍕 2.🍒🍒🍒🍒 3.🧁🧁🧁🧁 4.🍪🍪🍪🍪 5.🍫🍫🍫🍫 Enjoy😋

[@Alex-bz2cp]

This is so important

[@jecarnage]

oh god it makes me cry

[@paigechandler9045]

Wow

[@charlottejones64]

thanks dan howell

[@higherpowermeditation557]

powerful video

[@glossyminimo]

This is so good, I really felt that

[@Danni.Enchanted]

This hot hard ans close to home, its glad that a change is being made, it really needs to happen

[@bea-jv9ri]

Soon (hopefully!) I’m going to start seeing a psychologist and does anyone have any advice? x

[@dyamimite]

Rule one that I've always been given: If you don't feel comfortable with them (for any reason- sometimes it's just that you're not compatible), or feel that they're helping you, you *can* see someone else. Don't stay with someone who isn't giving you what you need- there is no shame in that. They did not fail. *You did not fail.* When you're with them, just be as honest as you feel comfortable as it goes along- push yourself, but not too hard. You don't want to leave feeling horrible or like you're breaking. This is a relationship, no matter if you're paying them, and it'll develop over time - I would cluster a few visits at the start so you get a feel for them and their practices, and then space them out a bit more if you wish to continue. Most importantly though; remember that they are there to help you. They can't do it for you. But you've taken a massive step going to seek out help, and you really should be proud of that.

[@aki.mono_1344]

This. THIS. I want people to spread this out to the world. I've been ranting last night about how fucked up the school hours on my school has become. I don't know what time school starts on the US or other countries but on my class, which they dub as the "highest" class, school starts on *7 A.M.* But the lower classes are even more unfortunate, because for them, school starts on a whopping *6 A.M.* . Which is obviously pretty stupid since given their overwhelming amount of projects especially since now (at least in our country) is nearing the end of school, we barely get a chance to get proper sleep, we do all-nighters just for a stupid project worth something on our grade. And what will those grades do in the end? It deteriorates our overall health. Hell, even the people who got 9-5 jobs would be pissed if their boss added an hour more of work. They didn't do it on the office workers, but why do it on poor kids? Second on my rant is about the fact that teachers aren't even determined anymore. It's really obvious on their faces that they'd rather have their salary immediately. I've only seen a handful left of teachers who are actually passionate about their work in unique ways, and do their work right. And they really made my class learn. (Even if the information they're giving us is useless, but nonetheless, we learned it) And third, which is one of the m o s t common, is that they do NOT give a shit about kids who have different talents. The world NEEDS creative minds, and school is just, draining out the creativeness of kids. Like if you have a weird talent there, it'll most likely go unnoticed, since all they care about is academics anyway. This crap is frustrating man, everyone needs to have their own spotlight where they can show other people what they can do. For all i know kids who are like that are probably disappointed, or even DOUBTING their own abilities just because they couldn't show it to people they see for 12 years of their life. And school doesn't give a SHIT.

[@davidkonevky7372]

That's actually a great message

[@hotcheetossuck]

I can feel this

[@unbelievablysuccessfulbusi4940]

The sad thing is, I’ve never been taught about mental health at school...

[@myplaylist7007]

2020 - 2021 - It has come to my attention that schools don't know how to do that.

[@francesatty7022]

my school has a great mental health support team, but only got a "good" from ofsted

[@danandphilrats2058]

daniel james howell is an amazing person and i hope he knows it.

[@Blood_Bunny_]

For real though, this shits important

[@pandontv]

School system is nowadays for creating working hands... not teaching us to be free... That's pity

[@Rainok]

What is this and why do I remember it?

[@bonusbone5118]

Yeah i really hate it when schools do their jobs

[@danandphilrats2058]

daniel howell ilysfm

[@luismunson3115]

hi guys

[@bobbuilder6081]

Shushh

[@kovlad2647]

They don't care.

[@filiproj]

Dont worry , i hate school to

[@fatiennouri985]

I'm an MDD and it's not just fine one hour you're fine the next ur just a piece of waste

[@salmon6092]

the teachers at my school told me that god hates christians who have depression