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The professional malaise of teachers is still completely unknown and, in the collective ignorance, it takes more victims than it should. Telling it through meaningful testimonies at least helps people understand that it afflicts many teachers, but you can get out of it by taking the right countermeasures. Many are unaware that the arrival of the DAD has further aggravated the situation.
“My mom teaches kindergarten and has been sick since dad.”
My mother is a kindergarten teacher; He is 64 years old and 25 years old. Unfortunately, she is not very used to technology, and since DAD began, she has encountered more and more difficulties: she has lost confidence and seems to have fallen into a deep depression. He fears the judgment of others, especially parents and peers, and in recent days he has expressed thoughts that concern us.
I do not deny that, in the family, we underestimated the situation, until, just a week ago, the problem worsened. Now you are constantly in bed, not wanting to do any activities. Just think that you don’t even want to talk and video call with your beloved grandchildren anymore. The day before yesterday we managed (with great difficulty) to go to the doctor who immediately understood the seriousness of the situation and prescribed a series of psychological interviews. However, yesterday we went back to the doctor, who redirected us to a psychiatrist because the mother also had countless sequential panic attacks, breathing difficulties and stopped eating and drinking. I was wondering if you could show us the way to go out of it.
Reflections
We have often wondered if Covid, with the introduction of DAD, has further complicated the professional lives of our already psychophysically worn out teachers. The letter sent to me by a child concerned about the situation of his mother, a kindergarten teacher, is very eloquent.
Since this is a very sensitive situation that requires further investigation, I immediately invited the teacher’s son to contact me. In the interview, previous episodes emerged in which the mother had already experienced a major depressive episode in her youth, due to a failure in her studies. The family history of both parents was positive for the same pathology. The teacher’s unfamiliarity with technology and the advancement of DAD for the pandemic acted as a trigger for a new crisis. This likely created a situation where the teacher found himself reliving the failure of the past. This determined the fear of judgment from colleagues and parents, with a feeling of inadequacy and guilt already experienced in the past. The teacher’s response was immediate and, after a few months, it fell into complete closure. With all contact with the world interrupted, she locked herself in her own room, immobile in bed, completely isolated and in total fasting in a catatonic climate of anhedonia and depression. The rejection of technology has been so total and violent that the refusal to make the “video call” with the beloved grandchildren is not surprising. What to do now? The teacher must be guided, supported and put in contact with a psychiatrist who prescribes a long period of illness but above all restores the will to live using all available means such as pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. The fundamental factors are patient vigilance and the assiduous presence of the family. When resuming work, the hypothesis of a medical examination in CMV will be considered to obtain the impossibility of teaching with the transition to other functions. Wasting time is prohibited.
“I’m exhausted and embarrassed, but you don’t have to know it at school.”
I’m Maria, a primary school teacher. Doing a little research on the net about the state of mental health that a teacher can reach, I found his facebook page. I am living a very bad time and I can no longer carry out my work with serenity, at school I can no longer involve the students, I have organization, concentration and memory problems. I asked a psychologist for help and then a neurologist, but nothing was resolved, in fact. My biggest problem is not knowing how to deal with it. I only talked about it with my family, but not in the workplace because I am afraid of future repercussions. If a teacher leaves work due to mental disorders, what will their readmission be like? I am desperate, every day I return from school more and more distressed, I sleep very little at night and I am always in a bad mood, I sincerely hope that you can give me an expert opinion advising me on the steps to follow.
Reflections
This teacher describes well the symptoms of her discomfort (lack of serenity, disorganization, poor memory and lack of concentration, pain, insomnia, fear of classmates’ judgment) but does not provide essential data such as age and seniority. We are probably facing the classic case of burnout unknown to the teacher herself. So far everything is normal, but there are two details that could constitute an obstacle to recover the full functionality of the teacher. Burnout is a professional problem, but María says that “I only talked about it with my family but not at work because I am afraid of future repercussions.” His obsession is best explained by the following thought: “If a teacher leaves work due to mental disorders, what will his readmission be?” Central thinking is not aimed at trying to understand what’s going on and how to get out of it, but rather focuses on “what they will think of me.” Here, Maria will structure her reaction in dissimulation, stubbornly hiding, from everyone, her condition of psychic wear. Let us try, instead, to think if Maria was aware of the fact that many colleagues are in her condition, that the professional illnesses of teachers are largely psychiatric, that they increase in number and intensity with length of service and, above all, All in all, that by far the most effective coping strategy is sharing difficulties with peers. Probably Maria would give up dissimulation and face real life with its joys and sorrows. So I invited Maria to first read my text (“Teachers, Denied Health, and Hidden Truths”) that tells 100 Burnout stories from the same ending. The numerous testimonials could lead you to understand the advice that I will give you second. Only then will he understand the rule that “he who hides succumbs.”
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