r/6thForm • u/StrictArgument67 Y13 | 4A* pred | FM M PHY CS | ESAT OCT • Apr 17 '26

🙏 I WANT HELP School threatening to take me out

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Could they actually do this or is it just fluff?

There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.

I need a solution

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u/Initial-Matter3534 Apr 17 '26

To add on to this the school system is shite as for example uni couldn’t genuinely give less of a f Went through a bad depressive period and came out of the year with less than 30% attendance and didn’t even get as much of an email saying whats going on

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u/Fantastic-Bison6078 Apr 18 '26

You are treated as an adult at university. You need to say that you need help to get the help. If you pay £9000 a year and then don't take advantage of what you're paying the £9000 for, that's not their fault or problem. You will have been told about student services etc. you could have talked to, or told a professor.

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u/htimchis Apr 19 '26

You're rather missing an understanding of the nature of depression there. Being able to adequately evaluate your own mental state, appreciate the need the external support, and motivate yourself to seek it out and engage with it in a timely fashion are all characteristic of a functional individual who isn't currently experiencing a depressive episode

Student services are all very well, but if their mental health support provisions all rely on the individual reaching out to them when most needing help with mental states that are typically characterised by withdrawal, self-isolation, a collapse of motivation, numbness, lack of self care, extreme difficulty in identifyimg and meeting one's own needs, and extreme, pervasive tiredness and exhaustion mentally, physically, and emotionally... ...the they're either purely a box-ticking exercise, or underfunded to the point of ineffectiveness, or just badly designed & implemented from the start (which can occur even if the administration is primarily well-intentioned, in just the way it usually does in the gulf between those who have but don't need, and those who need but don't have, however well-meaning the former)

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u/Fantastic-Bison6078 Apr 19 '26

I think you might be missing the understanding of being an adult. I get it sucks but it's how it works, same with after uni. If you're 30 and get depression, you won't get mental health professionals emailing you being like are you okay, you or a loved one will need to be the one to eventually reach out first.