Student has traumatic breakdown in class | Waterloo Road

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[PhimbleG-d]

This is actually a pretty good representation of what traumatic (PTSD) breakdowns can look like. It’s not all flash backs and hazy vision. Sometimes it’s outbursts like this.

[SaharaColeman]

The teacher was so ignorant when she said “I’m not gonna have you ruin it for everyone else” that right there could send an already emotional person over the edge. People have to watch what they say and how they say it. She just better be glad what Kelly sent flying through the window didn’t go through her.

[jessicas.]

A coworker I had was easily emotionally overwhelmed. My other coworkers often complained about her behind her back for it, but she’s a great person, and just needed patience sometimes. At those times I simply offered to help her out or offered an ear so she didn’t feel alone. Our response to someone losing control shouldn’t be losing control of our patience. Sometimes you just need to feel a moment of support. ❤

[michellemarshall]

The actress who plays kelly jo is incredible👏👏👏 I'm glad waterloo road is back and raising awareness for teenage mental health

[idk_man]

something that makes me angry beyond belief, is that if you look at the man's face at 1:51, you'll see he's actually smiling. It's for a brief moment, but kelly is in a state of extreme distress, and he, along with another boy, find it funny. It urks me so much

[ahrenadhikaryg]

Only when she broke a window (and potentially harm the others) did they start doing anything sensible, that's wonderful

[DivyaRaviraj]

I used to be like this at home sometimes in my darkest roughest times. It’s a real thing. It hurts.

[upscaleavenue]

This is an example of provoking someone with a verbal attack and then attacking them for responding to your attack.

[spiceupyourafterlife]

“I wonder what hole you’ll end up in.” Wow, that was unbelievably cruel!

[___]

I love it when people make videos like this, the meaning is easily understood and it spreads awareness

[spinach]

students who struggle like this usually just get punished for their behaviour. Teachers aren’t trained to help kids at all specifically they aren’t trained on trauma or on the wellbeing of children.

[PowerOfAIandMotivation]

If they hugged her from the very beginning when things started to go a bit strange and reassured her that no one is actually against her ~ things would not have escalated to all of that afterwards at all.
Obviously she needs more assistance afterwards with a real genuine loving therapist or emotional healer but the least thing if they did take it seriously from the beginning and offered the hug and the reassurance things will take another path and not the extreme worst path that they portrayed which is because they didn't take it seriously from the beginning and chose the gentle way to deal with it.
Emotions are everything and they need to be healed and dealt with the proper healthiest and gentlest way possible, humans are not robots never will be and emotions are genuine and they are what we live for and by so if they don't start teaching such stuff there will always be such problems forever unless they take it to heart and install it in education systems.

[lemondemon]

love to see how people dont understand just how traumatic it can be

[austin-wj]

I got so emotional watching this because I understand the pain, PTSD and breakdowns manifest in many ways and this unfortunately is the way hers is showing. I don't wish this on anyone because I know it all to well for myself

[ajkon]

I have Asperger’s and this has happened to me before. Many times actually. It’s all a blur when you’re fighting or being destructive when triggered but after, it’s one of the worst things to feel because you know what you’ve done and you can’t reverse it. The pain after that lasts for weeks or even months. It’s hard sometimes.

[rosiebeal]

Teachers should not be shouting at her if she's having a breakdown

[AmeliaRoman]

I have Autism and that happened to me at school and the teachers knew exactly what to do! I wish that girl has a lot of teachers who are supportive as my teachers

[JustAnotherPersonU]

I'm not ADHD, but I do have ASD and I felt a lot of similar feelings. The accusation of 'it's always you.' 'You're the one acting up.' 'You're the one who made it worse.'

All those are such common things those who neurodivergent conditions hear and face. Not just from others students. But teachers as well.

And you don't see my head. You don't see her head. It's outburst after outburst because the body doesn't know how else to cope. It's too much. And then we're demonised for it... told we should've controlled it. That we should just behave... gods, so many people don't understand what drives us to this. That it's natural for us to do this because there IS no other way. We cannot help it and just shouting and telling us to be normal, or behave makes it worse.

And fyi, it's done in a twisty way to shift the blame onto us. It's so traumatising. That people shift the situation so that you're the guilty because you acted up even though you were emotionally hurt by what has happened.

[SoraAsahi]

And I was made to believe I was simply having temper tantrums before I actually knew about PTSD. Now I understand some of the other kids I knew weren't being stubborn or naughty back in the day.

[bencook]

As the saying goes, “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”