10 School Lessons That Would Be Far More Useful Than Algebra

7. How To Stay Mentally Healthy

We are encouraged as children to brush our hair, eat our vegetables and to do PE all to keep our body fit - but what about our mind? Nowadays more and more people seem to suffer from mental health issues like depression, anxiety and stress, but we were never sat down and actually taught how to cope with these and when to get help. Wouldn't it have been good if there had been a lesson where we'd been taught how to be confident, how to have self-esteem, how to avoid bad behavioural habits and thinking? Yep, we thought so too.