Don't Stay in School
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Don't Stay in School
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What I learned in school vs. What I didn't learn in school. iTunes: http://goo.gl/n4EgkZ | Bandcamp: http://goo.gl/gDetLT I can't remember feeling so passionate whilst writing something in ages. I absolutely love a lot of the subjects I mention in this - astronomy, particle physics, pure maths... but I hate that everyone is forced to learn them. It should be a choice. There are a million other things wrong with education, but this one stood out as the most obvious and most insane. The point of this song is to get people talking - if you share it, use #DontStayInSchool so we can all get involved in the conversation. Lyrics: I wasn’t taught how to get a job but I can remember dissecting a frog I wasn’t taught how to pay tax but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics I was never taught how to vote they devoted that time to defining isotopes I wasn’t taught how to look after my health but mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell Never spent a lesson on current events instead I studied The Old American West I was never taught what laws there are. I was never taught what laws there are. Let me repeat - I was not taught the laws for the country I live in, but I know how Henry the VIII killed his women. Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived glad that’s in my head instead of financial advice I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light but I was never taught my human rights Apparently there’s 30, do you know them? I don’t Why the hell can’t we both recite them by rote?! I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks Yet I don’t know squat about trading stocks Or how money works at all - where does it come from? Who controls it? How does the thing that motivates the world function? not taught how to budget and disburse my earnings I was too busy rehearsing cursive. Didn’t learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is but I spent days on what the quadratic equation is negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac over 2a That’s insane, that’s absolutely insane. They made me learn that over basic first aid How to recognise the most deadly Mental disorders // or diseases with preventable causes // How to buy a house with a mortgage // if I could afford it ‘cause abstract maths was deemed more important than advice that would literally save thousands of lives but it’s cool, ‘cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime. Never taught present day practical medicines, but I was told what the ancient hippocratic method is “I’ve got a headache, the pain is ceaseless what should I take?” umm... maybe try some leeches? “Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?” Ummm... no but learn mental maths because “you won’t have a calculator with you every day!” They say it’s not the kids, the parents are the problem Then if you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then! All this advice about using a condom but none for when you actually have a kid when you want one I’m only fluent in this language, for serious? The rest of the world speaks two, do you think I’m an idiot? They chose the solar over the political system So like a typical citizen now I don’t know what I’m voting on which policies exist, or how to make them change mais oui, je parle un peu de Francais So at 18, I was expected to elect a representative For a system I had never ever ever ever been presented with But I won’t take it I’ll tell everyone my childhood was wasted I’ll share it everywhere how I was “educated” And insist these pointless things #DontStayInSchool ► Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/boyinabandcom ► Twitter: http://twitter.com/DavePBrown ► Tumblr: http://davebiab.tumblr.com/ ► Music: http://boyinaband.bandcamp.com ► T-Shirts: http://boyinaband.bigcartel.com/ ★ ★ ★ THANKS TO MY PATRONS FOR SUPPORTING ME! ► Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/boyinaband Bart aka FantasyIH, Ema Simpson, Thomas Lloyd, Vincent Olsen, Ofer Mustigman, Sergey Khegay, Lance Thackeray.
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• 5 years ago
I mentioned on twitter I'm trying some new meds. They were initially good, then things got really rough. A lot of confusing and varied thoughts and emotions. My psych suggested I increased the dose so I've just done that today, 15mg escitalopram now up from 10mg. I'm trying to let myself get my hopes up, maybe part of my depression has been denying myself anticipation of happiness (I used to stop myself if i noticed I was getting excited about something "prematurely"), but that hope came effortlessly in the first month of the 10mg meds. Now that's faded, it takes energy I don't have much of. I slept through two therapy appointments. Sleeping pattern has been fucked the past month. This week I didn't sleep through it. I click with my therapist, which apparently is one of the best scientific identifiers of a therapist being effective according to her. It's hard to know whether it's helping atm, since I assume everyone is feeling brutally lonely rn. Maybe there's just no way for most people to be mentally healthy in a pandemic. I am really going against my instinct to post this. Right now I'm really closed off, not talking to almost anyone for a while. I don't feel like I have the energy for it. It feels weird talking about this hopefully and publicly without being "fixed". I just know reading things like this on reddit etc. that are so blunt about mental health experiences encouraged me to actually try therapy/meds in the first place + helped with persisting for longer. Statistically, they are worth trying properly. so what i'm really saying is should i take the meds all in one day to speed up the effect?
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No David, that is very dangerous, follow the instructed dose.
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