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Coping with Uncertainty and Immigration Fears Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
“You Good?”: Staying Connected During Suicide Prevention Month and Beyond Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
All Posts Protecting My Mental Health During an Ethnic Identity Crisis One of my first extracurricular experiences in college was attempting to join the Filipino Student Association (FSA) at the beginning of my freshmen fall semester. While I could say it was a memorable experience, it’s more accurate for me to describe it as an infamous memory amongst many… Read More I’m the First in My Family To Go to Therapy – And It Changed My Life I’m going to be honest – I didn’t enjoy my first therapy session. I was 14. Growing up, I saw therapy as something people do when there is something “wrong” with them. They’d sit in a room, maybe on a long couch, and talk about their feelings for… Read More Visible for Those Who Can’t Be When people ask if I ever played sports growing up, I take a second and do a lot of quick calculations. I ask myself “Can I trust this person?” “Is this a safe space?” “Is this an appropriate time to disclose that I am transgender?” If I decide… Read More Finding Peace in My Bipolar Diagnosis Every day, I work with young people across the country, helping them to share stories that aren’t always easy to vocalize. They disclose their own battles with mental health, the ways they’ve seen loved ones struggle, and so much more. They sacrifice comfort and privacy to share their… Read More Reflecting on the Past Two Years: Mental Health During COVID-19 Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Two years. It’s been two full years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in the United States and the effects have been as deep as they have been wide. We have all experienced loss in our own ways. From those… Read More Five Tips from a College Student to Form Better Sleep Habits Sleep. It’s something that most people yearn for throughout the day but can never seem to get enough of, especially during the week after daylight savings time. I’m sure I’m not alone right now in wishing I had just a bit more rest as… Read More Accessible Mental Health Care Shouldn’t Come Down to Luck Mental health has become an increasingly discussed topic over the past few years. More and more, people are willing to open up about their struggles, discuss strategies they’ve used to feel better, and help their loved ones through the same battles. Despite this, access to mental health resources… Read More The White House Announces New National Mental Health Strategy This week, President Biden tackled a variety of pressing issues in his first State of the Union address since taking office, including introducing a renewed focus on the mental health crisis plaguing the United States. As part of his unity agenda… Read More How I Manage My Daily Recovery Journey from an Eating Disorder It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly I started developing an eating disorder. Maybe it was when I started comparing myself to others, or perhaps it was when I started paying attention to caloric content and searching for weight loss methods. No matter when it started, all I know… Read More Incorporating Mental Health Into Social Justice Advocacy When you think of social justice, mental health may not be the first, second, or even fifth thought to come to mind. But, it should be. Social justice is an all-encompassing field that touches every part of our lives and has a unique definition for each person you… Read More 24 / 50
Protecting My Mental Health During an Ethnic Identity Crisis One of my first extracurricular experiences in college was attempting to join the Filipino Student Association (FSA) at the beginning of my freshmen fall semester. While I could say it was a memorable experience, it’s more accurate for me to describe it as an infamous memory amongst many… Read More
I’m the First in My Family To Go to Therapy – And It Changed My Life I’m going to be honest – I didn’t enjoy my first therapy session. I was 14. Growing up, I saw therapy as something people do when there is something “wrong” with them. They’d sit in a room, maybe on a long couch, and talk about their feelings for… Read More
Visible for Those Who Can’t Be When people ask if I ever played sports growing up, I take a second and do a lot of quick calculations. I ask myself “Can I trust this person?” “Is this a safe space?” “Is this an appropriate time to disclose that I am transgender?” If I decide… Read More
Finding Peace in My Bipolar Diagnosis Every day, I work with young people across the country, helping them to share stories that aren’t always easy to vocalize. They disclose their own battles with mental health, the ways they’ve seen loved ones struggle, and so much more. They sacrifice comfort and privacy to share their… Read More
Reflecting on the Past Two Years: Mental Health During COVID-19 Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Two years. It’s been two full years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in the United States and the effects have been as deep as they have been wide. We have all experienced loss in our own ways. From those… Read More
Five Tips from a College Student to Form Better Sleep Habits Sleep. It’s something that most people yearn for throughout the day but can never seem to get enough of, especially during the week after daylight savings time. I’m sure I’m not alone right now in wishing I had just a bit more rest as… Read More
Accessible Mental Health Care Shouldn’t Come Down to Luck Mental health has become an increasingly discussed topic over the past few years. More and more, people are willing to open up about their struggles, discuss strategies they’ve used to feel better, and help their loved ones through the same battles. Despite this, access to mental health resources… Read More
The White House Announces New National Mental Health Strategy This week, President Biden tackled a variety of pressing issues in his first State of the Union address since taking office, including introducing a renewed focus on the mental health crisis plaguing the United States. As part of his unity agenda… Read More
How I Manage My Daily Recovery Journey from an Eating Disorder It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly I started developing an eating disorder. Maybe it was when I started comparing myself to others, or perhaps it was when I started paying attention to caloric content and searching for weight loss methods. No matter when it started, all I know… Read More
Incorporating Mental Health Into Social Justice Advocacy When you think of social justice, mental health may not be the first, second, or even fifth thought to come to mind. But, it should be. Social justice is an all-encompassing field that touches every part of our lives and has a unique definition for each person you… Read More
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