Real conversations with your students.
"I have a lot of family problems. My parents are getting a divorce."
"I want girls to like me"
"What can I do to improve my mood?"
"How do I increase self-confidence while performing or just stage fright in general?"
"I feel bad talking to my parents, because I know they will still love me if I let my grades drop and they'll always support me, but it does feel like to much pressure sometimes, especially since my older brother was so good when it came to grades and academic performance. And I'm not close enough with any of my teachers to share this kind of stuff with them...that's a good way to look at it, thank you.”"
"I get bullied a lot"
"Thank you so much for listening, sometimes I just feel like nobody is listening or understands."
"Your advice really helped! Now I feel that my friends want to be around me more. 🙂"
"Well for one I'm just sad a lot of the time, I guess we could call that depression at this point, and I often act happy and good natured, and I'm trying to transition away from the religion of the masses here in St George, but I don't expect any of them to be able to understand, so I keep it to myself. Whenever I talk to them I feel like I'm constantly filtering what I really want to say because they wouldn't be ok with it"
"My sister has depression, what can I do to help her?"
"Sometimes people don't tell me things because they don't want to hurt my feelings,but the fact they don't tell me hurts my feelings. What should I tell them?"
"Well thank you amazing human too! It's so awesome that you take time to talk to strangers and brighten their day through this program. Keep it up! Have a great day"
"I don't really have any hobbies. I just work a lot. I work at a mexican restaurant i've climbed before but i don't do it often. I don’t really have motivation to do anything lately."
"You've been so helpful"
"“I'm grateful for you, and my family. Thanks for being here for me!! You're awesome ”"
"Ok I'm scared for my speech in leadership"
"I enjoy all of this information"
"I like that, I think that’s a good point, thank you for your input"
"thank you! i'm kinda stuck right now & i don't know what to do about this boy! i really like him & we've dated in the past but needed to break up to work on ourselves. we just recently decided to try again because obviously we still like & care for each other! but last night, i found out while we were broken up he did some bad things that he shouldn't have! he regrets it & says he was forced into it. at the end of the day you are responsible for the decision you make & no one can 'force' you🤷🏽♀️ i've been thinking about this all day & it makes me sick:( i know it shouldn't affect me this bad because we were broken up but i don't know if i can move past this! he's told me he is sorry SOO many times but it just hurts me:("
"im sad i aint at school i wanna kill my self"
"How do you get rid of a sore throat?"
"Bro a lot. Too much for a text i can barely speak what i need to say"
"I have been feeling just really down"
"That’s good, I’ll try to do that today with my friends."
"I’m doing better now, thank you!"
"I’m feeling nervous"
"No worries, monster texts are usually the best 😊 That is really helpful actually- I'm a visual learner, and that is a good image. Do you have any suggestions on how to get back to the inner circle? I get so caught up in the dregs I forget how to get out"
"I totally agree thanks!"
"I have 3 F's and I'm super stressed because I'm normally a straight A student"
"The bullying has been happening for a few weeks and I honestly don't know why. Me and another girl got a note directed towards me called me a f---ing retard and behind my back this kid called me an ugly a--hole. i try not to let it bother me though it's not super important cos (this sounds weird and far fetched ik) likeeeeeee why would he call me ugly unless he thought i have a higher opinion of myself then that, so he prolly knows i couldn't care less about his words like they hurt but i know he's verbally abused at home and i don't put up with it and he can't handle not having the right reactions from me."