Real conversations with your students.
"That's a good thought, everyone has something to contribute, sometimes it's just hard to see my part when others seem to have so much more to contribute than I do, I appreciate your help, this program is a really great idea!"
"I have friends but they never supported me through anything i guess i will need to find another way. You're really the only thing(?) that has ever actually listened to my thoughts"
"I have been feeling just really down"
"i'm failing all my classes"
"im sad i aint at school i wanna kill my self"
"Soo, the other day I got into a really heated argument with my best friend's mom, because they kinda make my friend feel down. I went to confront her, but it turned into an argument. I said some things I'm not too proud of, and wrote her an apology note, but um. I still feel sick from what I said."
"I have 3 F's and I'm super stressed because I'm normally a straight A student"
"thank you so much! i will reach out if i need to 🥰"
"How do I feel better"
"Yea I'm so relieved now, thank you!"
"Ok I'm scared for my speech in leadership"
"I have a math test tomorrow and that's the only class holding me back from my 4.0 and if I don't do good I'll lose it"
"Bro a lot. Too much for a text i can barely speak what i need to say"
"The end of the quarter is kinda sucky rn"
"All my friends watch tiktoks instead of doing hw and brag about it, it's like, high school culture to just procrastinate and brag about having bad grades and no sleep and everything and it doesn't click to me. But yeah I love my friends but I wish I could meet some that are more like me."
"“Thank you so much for your support!”"
"Your advice really helped! Now I feel that my friends want to be around me more. 🙂"
"Yes you too!! Thanks for helping me feel better"
"I have funeral I'm going to, ACT stuff is being shoved in my head, I have 4 college classes to keep up on, skills USA is coming up and I've been nominated to participate, and I have two jobs"
"How do I deal with very opinionated friends?"
"My boyfriend broke up with me"
"I get bullied a lot"
"idk. i just get sad randomly sometimes like my depression will just come and hit me out of nowhere when i'm feeling fine. and my doctor thought i might be bipolar but the psychologist said i wasn't so yeh. idk i'm just kinda weird lol"
"That's a very structured way of looking at it, I think that would be a great start"
"I want girls to like me"
"Yeah, my aunt took a stroke, the doctors didn’t know why and it wasn’t looking very good. She had a severe brain bleed and their hope was that her brain would swell and stop the bleeding. But 12 hours later her brain was still bleeding. She had a 3% chance of pulling through but by 8 last night she was brain dead so they took her off life support and around 4 this morning she passed"
"i don't know i just missed two weeks of school due to COVID and my grades are suffering and i can't find the motivation to work. I lose my 4.0 this year already to one A- and now i kinda feel like a failure"
"I feel constantly disappointed about myself because I know I can do better, but I don't seem to be able to."
"My sister has depression, what can I do to help her?"
"hey thanks im sorry im just being bullied at school and i told the counselor and he's been helping me but it's only getting worse"