Lately in school I've had the issue where all of a sudden the teachers at my school have been talking about mental health. It's started in around about October time, but it's starting to get more and more frequent and it's becoming harder to concentrate on what is being taught as my thoughts go back to the fact they mentioned mental health.

The first instance of it happened back when I was 15 when one of my teachers was teaching our group about the needs of a consumer. He basically stared at me, smiled and then said some people have emotional needs and then turned around to another student implying they had special needs. This teacher since then has told my class that I do too much work and that I use it to distract myself and has told a teacher with me in the room that I am too paranoid about things.

Two of my other teachers have been mentioning mental health a lot recently too. As a class we are studying two books, 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams and 'Close Range' by Annie Proulx, and one of my English teachers constantly reminds our class about one of the characters in A Streetcar Named Desire named Blanche who may have Psychosis. It is really hard for me to deal with this as a part of the play because I constantly feel as though when the teacher makes me read as that character he can see right through me and thinks that I relate the most to Blanche.
My other teacher actually made me feel a whole lot worse about my situation after we read a part of Close Range where a girl, Ottaline, talks to a tractor. After the big discussion my teacher had said:

‘Does everyone agree that talking to inanimate objects is plain weird?’ -pause for a beat- ‘Good to see we are all sane.’

I wanted so badly to tell her that I actually do talk to objects and sometimes they do talk back, but that would just make everything else worse... right?

Also before this had happened my year group had a lesson where we all sat in the sixth form common room and some people came in and talked about psychosis and depression along with eating disorders too. I felt as though the school were out to get me and also had the same fears that I do that I may just be mentally ill.

Has anyone got any tips to ignore all this talk about mental health so that I can concentrate on my school work and not mental illness?