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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Yale grad of more than 20 years ago and absolutely cannot believe that this backwards awful policy and culture is still in place today. This is exactly how stuff went down in the 90s minus FaceTime and stuff. I remember both freshman counselors (like RAs), residential college deans, and peers urging classmates who were desperately struggling with their mental health to NOT leave school no matter how acute their situation because they would probably not be readmitted. It was a well-known fact and absolutely deterred desperate people from getting the help they needed.

I had an acquaintance who went to the ER and was admitted and inpatient at Yale New Haven and on suicide watch. We visited him. He did his coursework from a literal padded room and went right back to his dorm room days later because it was that or have to unenroll during senior year. He would do his coursework and then lay in bed for 20 hours. His parents’ and the deans’ workaround to having him lose his chance to graduate was to have his friends and acquaintances sit with him 24 hours/day on a rotating schedule. I haven’t thought about it in years and it was insane that we all went along with it. Who puts 20 year olds on a suicide watch in a dorm and thinks that’s a solution?!

Every school has problems with high achievers, competition, and pressure. But Yale is distinctly messed up in how it manages it. The issue is and always has been the school’s completely ancient, backwards way of distinguishing mental health leave from medical leave and the shame it attaches to the former. [/quote]

I hope your friend is doing okay now. What an awful experience. [/quote]

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