What to do when I find out that my child's classroom teacher is a former psychopath of mine?
What to do when I find out that my child's classroom teacher is a former psychopath of mine?
I am ashamed and sorry to have a fellow traveler like you!
If you are truly a psychiatrist, how could you ask such a pedestrian question?
Don't you know that mental illness is completely curable?
A cured mentally ill person has the same rights as any of the rest of us, including the right to work!
Haven't you ever seriously studied the Mental Health Law of the People's Republic of China?
Your question has been suspected of revealing patient privacy and discriminating against the mentally ill.
Not only are you unethical, you're breaking the law, you know?
I hope you'll stop there!
Finally, as a fellow traveler, I'll give you a friendly tip:
If what you did (including this stupid question on the influential media "Today's Headlines") triggered a relapse of the teacher's illness, you will be held responsible for your actions! (You are not legally responsible for any accidents that occur during a patient's illness.)


Is it really so terrible to have a spiritual teacher? If there were problems now, he wouldn't be able to stand on the podium. We should give more encouragement, confidence. Otherwise, it's really too late for us to regret afterwards.
I remember my junior high school female homeroom teacher, not tall, birdie type. Melon face white skin. People quite lovely, kind. Often take us to sing. Sometimes sing and sing themselves to tears. A week to talk about a world famous novel. Cared for students with life problems and opposed to dragging the class. Once told a math teacher in class that she didn't care about the minutes, let the kids move around more.
Such a good teacher was met with a genocidal strike.
I don't know who it was that sued the school, saying that the teacher once had a psychiatric history. The teacher was not allowed to teach that day and the teacher was assigned to ring the bell. The new teacher who took over actually told us that no one was allowed to touch that classroom teacher ever again. There would be consequences. At the time it felt like a strange thing, how could a good teacher be treated like that. Even if there was a disease, that was in the past.
From then on, the teacher was isolated, and people avoided her from a distance for fear of being hit for no reason. Every time I see the teacher alone, falling helpless eyes, my heart is broken. Every time I called out to the teacher, she nodded her head in panic. But every time I saw the teacher, how much she wanted to communicate with me at close range.
That very summer, our sweet and poor teacher threw herself into the river. Never again could I find my dear teacher to say hello to her. If an already normal teacher, why can't they be understood and cared for by others, are they really that hateful? Why do they have to inflict further pain on someone's just-right scars?
I think that since you have healed someone else and they are already attending classes regularly, the past should not be brought up. Give someone else a chance and they will be more caring for your child.
This one did make me freeze.
But I think I should ask you a question first:
He was your patient. Did you fix him?
The question you ask seems to feel like you're skeptical of your patients, so have you ever doubted yourself?
Of course, this is a very specific disease and may be difficult to fully cure, but the least you can do is assess whether he is currently capable of doing the job. Seeing this question from you, it seems that under your assessment he is unstable.
Then, at the slightest hint of instability that could cause damage to a student, the first thing to do should be to keep the child safe.
However, a teacher is a human being, and just because he has been there, doesn't mean he will be now, and being able to help him with your specialty might be better.
If you find that your child's classroom teacher is showing signs of relapse or still has residual symptoms that are enough to interfere with her teaching, you can talk to her and suggest further treatment. If she is now completely normal, what are you worrying about as a psychiatrist? What should you be worried about?
Qualities that should be essential for a psychiatrist
In fact, I doubt that you are really a psychiatrist, because in the opinion of all psychiatrists, the word "mental illness" has a certain discriminatory color, there is nothing wrong with the term, but there is a general bias in the perception of the word "mental illness" in society. Therefore, psychiatrists generally do not use this word to describe their patients, we usually directly call the patient's name, or call them patients.
It is said that doctors should at least have love, then the psychiatrist is a profession that requires great love, in psychiatry, doctors have been following the rule of occasional treatment, often to comfort, always caring. Every patient with a mental disorder is a "bitter person", because of their own mental illness, many people out of the original life trajectory, every person who can return to work, have paid a huge price, and are under considerable pressure.
My mentally challenged
Once one of my very outstanding patients, double first-class university graduate students, was recruited into the army, the onset of the military training period was discharged, after a long time after returning home after the treatment, she herself also overcame a lot of difficulties, and ultimately completely relieved all the psychiatric symptoms, but also admitted to the institutions, last year to find me that he was admitted into the education system's Talent Introduction Program, became an elementary school teacher, I I was also happy for her, because being a teacher has been her wish for many years.
The vast majority of my discharged patients have become my good friends, and many of them often communicate with me over the phone or via WeChat about some of the troubles they have encountered in their treatment, or in their lives, and I'm happy to give them some professional advice because their efforts, in my opinion as a person who has been through it, are really worthy of respect. Our society also needs to give them enough room for recovery, instead of being skeptical and wary.
Not all mental disorders manifest themselves as prolonged, and in fact most patients are completely relieved of their mental symptoms if they are treated promptly and with satisfactory efficacy. For example, the excellent patient mentioned above is a schizophrenic, but her social adaptation after recovery is better than many of her peers, and she has repeatedly relied on her own efforts to get into a career.
For patients, what society lacks
In fact, just like this problem, our society lacks a lot of things for the rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders. For example, how to help patients return to society and their families. The long period of hospitalization and the stigma attached to one's mental illness all affect the process of the patient's return to society and to the family. At this time, if the community can help the patients and provide them with opportunities to return to society, such as simple jobs, then I believe the patients will be able to return to society better.
In fact, in the United States, where psychiatry is relatively advanced, this kind of similar rehabilitation work exists, and the community will create such work opportunities so that the patients will not gradually detach themselves from society when they feel integrated into this society.
In addition, society as a whole needs to be more tolerant of people with mental disorders. It is true that some patients' mental symptoms pose some dangers, but I do not agree with stigmatizing the whole group of patients, after all, there are still a lot of patients who are relatively well adapted to society, or at least, we cannot make a generalization. What people with mental disorders need is understanding, care and greater tolerance from society. After all, this group is too big and is an integral part of our society.
I don't know if you're a psychiatrist, but I hope you're not, because your lack of confidence and compassion for your patients might not really make you a psychiatrist.
If I found out that my child's homeroom teacher had a history of mental illness, I think I would move my child to a different class or school without telling anyone.

Although I know that the school will keep a good eye on it and must have let her step into the workplace when she has fully recovered from her illness. But I would still be unsure, so I wouldn't let my child learn under such a teacher.
At the school where my mom used to work, there was a female teacher who was mentally ill, and I remember her last name was Xia. I heard my mom say that Ms. Xia's symptom was that she would suddenly laugh. My mom said that the first time she was admitted to a mental hospital was when the school was in the middle of an assembly.She suddenly started laughing. My mom said that at first she laughed and everyone laughed with her, but after a while everyone started to get scared! Her lips were purple and she was convulsing, but she was still laughing. I heard that after she was sent to the mental hospital, the doctor immediately gave her a shot of sedative, otherwise she might really die from laughing.

She was discharged from the hospital after a month or so, but the school did not agree to let her return to work. Instead, they kept her home for over a year and agreed to let her go back to work.
The school didn't dare to make her a classroom teacher, but let her teach physical education. At that time, physical education was not taken seriously, and physical education teachers were all part-time. The main thing was that PE lessons were almost always taken up by the homeroom teacher, so there were times when she couldn't even take one lesson a week!
But one day she got so angry at being contradicted by a student that she made a move that made the school leaders feel backward.
In those days, gym class was moved indoors once winter came, so gym class became a study hall.
Her gym class wasn't taken that day, so she led the kids indoors for study hall. She warned the students to be honest about their homework and not to talk or joke around. However, two of the boys were not honest at all and kept talking and joking, so she tried to get one of them to go out and stand for a while. But the boy didn't listen to her at all. He refused to go out of his seat and asked her, "Who do you think you are? Who are you to tell me to go out?
I don't know why that kid's words instantly angered her, and she suddenly became furious. From what the students in that class said, she stripped the kid down to just a pair of pants in a few strokes, and then she pushed the kid outside.
Good thing the kid was so timid that he didn't run home right away, but just stood outside and cried. The child's cry is very loud, immediately let the opposite row of classrooms in the students noticed him, those children see him only wearing a pair of pants standing outside, suddenly all boiling. The classroom immediately became a mess. The teacher of the opposite classroom saw, hurriedly took his coat and ran out.
The teacher ran over and hurriedly wrapped the boy in his coat, and as soon as this teacher ran out, all the students in their class ran out to see what was going on.
At that time, this incident was a particularly big sensation in our school, and then the rumor that Mr. Xia was mentally ill immediately spread among his classmates.

Later, the school arranged for her to work in a school-run factory, and when the school-run factory was no longer in operation, she was sent home on sick leave. I remember that when she retired, she made one condition, that is, her daughter should take over her class, and then her daughter really became a teacher.
Luckily, the parents of the student she stripped naked were quite nice, and the school leadership and the union went to visit the kid at his home, and my mom said it seemed like they compensated him with five hundred dollars. Five hundred dollars in the eighties was a lot of money, almost a year's salary.
That's why people with mental illnesses really aren't fit to work with kids. I really don't want a teacher who has had a mental illness to teach my kids, it's good if nothing happens, it's a big deal if something happens!
In that case, you are a psychiatrist! If you're a professional doctor, you should know more about mental illness, why are you asking the internet? As far as I know, teacher's mental illness can't be passed on to students!
I'm a parent too, and I've thought about it differently, and if that were the case I'd be very worried too, and even skeptical of his ability to teach not only the subject matter, but even his ability to teach it in a positive way.
This "knot" is not a dead end.
There are a few things you can do in the spirit of responsibility for your children. First, you know the most about his condition. You can track some of the healing process and recovery status of his condition to make a general assessment (I think he may be one of those conditions that is curable and has little recurrence). After doing this step, you should have a good idea of his health in mind.
However, there is one more step that needs to be done. Apply your medical theories, for example: what are the mannerisms of such patients when they are angry, what kind of abnormal behavior do they have when they encounter some special events ...... In short, think of some instances where you can best judge their condition. What's the point of thinking about this? Pretend to care about your child's school life and ask them what their teachers say and do when they are with them. Ask more questions and you'll have your answer. And you are relieved.
Also, ask the teachers you know at the school for a sidebar. I think it should be fine, parents are very "good" these days and have already tested it for you, so it shouldn't be the first year of teaching after recovering from an illness.
If you still have a threshold in your mind, there's no excuse, find some kind of legitimate reason and transfer the shift.
I've heard that 100 glances back in a previous life fixes a fan, so thanks for continuing to follow!
What to do when you find out that your child's homeroom teacher is one of my former psychopaths? Thanks to you, you're a doctor. A cured psychopath is a normal person.
Mental illnesses are categorized into mild mental illnesses and severe mental illnesses. Regardless of whether it is a mild mental illness or a severe mental illness, as long as the diagnosis is made early, the treatment is appropriate, and the patient is more cooperative, that is to say, with a higher degree of adherence, it is possible to be clinically cured.
It's good not to know, but it's a real thing to know that even though you are a psychiatrist you can't be sure that everyone will be cured, and even if they are, you can't be sure that they won't relapse! If you secretly transfer your child to another school, you may feel a bit irresponsible to the other children. But if you tell the school about the problem, you could lose the teacher's job. You are a doctor, you should know very well whether the patient has been cured, you need to follow up on the patient's recovery according to the child's description, but also do your duty. If the child says the teacher often does some puzzling things, it means that the teacher has not fully recovered, which requires you and the school to reflect the real situation. If the recovery is good and there is no unusual behavior, it is better not to do something that ruins a person's life, which also validates your treatment.
That was just once, people must have recovered their health to be able to do the job. You, as a doctor, should protect your patient's privacy, not look at people with colored glasses, and not spread the hidden problems of someone's past, that's what a true healer does [aura]
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