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Healing with Send Silence Packing 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.
Meet the Interns: A Look Back at Summer and Forward to the Fall 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 A Father’s Letter Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. When you’re a parent, September always feels like the start of something new. That’s why this time of year is so hard for my wife Selme and me. Our daughter Kaleigh died three years ago. She would have just graduated from USC… Read More 5 Ways to Transform the Mental Health Conversation on Your Campus This post is presented in collaboration with Crisis Text Line, the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. The piece was originally posted on August 15, 2018. The fall semester is looming and summer will soon be winding down. College students across the… Read More My First Steps Towards Resilience I woke up for what felt like the hundredth time to the nurse asking me if she could take my vitals. In a rehearsed choreography, I sat up in my bed, placed the thermometer in my mouth, held my arm out, slipped my finger into the sensor, and… Read More Chicanx/Latinx Salud Mental Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. When mental health is not a conversation within your community – you start a conversation. This is especially important amongst diverse, multicultural communities where mental health is often ignored or stigmatized. As the former… Read More Mental Health is Intersectional Hello, My name is Armando Zaragoza and I currently serve as the chapter president for CSU San Marcos’ Active Minds Chapter, and over the past year my fellow Active Minds ambassador and Vice President, Becky Calica, and I had the pleasure of facilitating an event that focused on mental health… Read More Depression’s Inexplicability Depression is blind. It doesn’t see your color. It doesn’t see your privilege. It doesn’t see how well your life is going. It doesn’t see anything. It just hits you. Getting diagnosed with depression was a very interesting journey for me. I have been involved… Read More “Salud Mental,” two words I never knew existed… I remember when I saw a mental health pamphlet in Spanish at an Active Minds Conference in California. It was so exciting, fascinating and surprising to me. Yes I wrote that right… a pamphlet! That was the first time I ever saw anything advocating for mental health in… Read More Where do we go from here? Each year, millions of high school graduates make the transition into college life. Encouraged by parents and peers, the next few years are sure to be some of the best times of their life. While this may be true for some, mental health is a growing concern that is rising… Read More Be There For Your Significant Other Your partner may be struggling with their mental health and you might not know how to help. It’s ok, they’re not at fault and neither are you. A relationship alone can be a challenge, but when one or both partners are struggling with their mental health it can… Read More There is Beauty in the Darkness There is a hidden beauty that mental illness carries. A beauty that is humbling and fills one with a feeling of gratefulness that is challenging to articulate. Accompanying the racing thoughts and the frightening nights are the people who lend themselves to those in need. When agitation takes… Read More 43 / 49
A Father’s Letter Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. When you’re a parent, September always feels like the start of something new. That’s why this time of year is so hard for my wife Selme and me. Our daughter Kaleigh died three years ago. She would have just graduated from USC… Read More
5 Ways to Transform the Mental Health Conversation on Your Campus This post is presented in collaboration with Crisis Text Line, the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. The piece was originally posted on August 15, 2018. The fall semester is looming and summer will soon be winding down. College students across the… Read More
My First Steps Towards Resilience I woke up for what felt like the hundredth time to the nurse asking me if she could take my vitals. In a rehearsed choreography, I sat up in my bed, placed the thermometer in my mouth, held my arm out, slipped my finger into the sensor, and… Read More
Chicanx/Latinx Salud Mental Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. When mental health is not a conversation within your community – you start a conversation. This is especially important amongst diverse, multicultural communities where mental health is often ignored or stigmatized. As the former… Read More
Mental Health is Intersectional Hello, My name is Armando Zaragoza and I currently serve as the chapter president for CSU San Marcos’ Active Minds Chapter, and over the past year my fellow Active Minds ambassador and Vice President, Becky Calica, and I had the pleasure of facilitating an event that focused on mental health… Read More
Depression’s Inexplicability Depression is blind. It doesn’t see your color. It doesn’t see your privilege. It doesn’t see how well your life is going. It doesn’t see anything. It just hits you. Getting diagnosed with depression was a very interesting journey for me. I have been involved… Read More
“Salud Mental,” two words I never knew existed… I remember when I saw a mental health pamphlet in Spanish at an Active Minds Conference in California. It was so exciting, fascinating and surprising to me. Yes I wrote that right… a pamphlet! That was the first time I ever saw anything advocating for mental health in… Read More
Where do we go from here? Each year, millions of high school graduates make the transition into college life. Encouraged by parents and peers, the next few years are sure to be some of the best times of their life. While this may be true for some, mental health is a growing concern that is rising… Read More
Be There For Your Significant Other Your partner may be struggling with their mental health and you might not know how to help. It’s ok, they’re not at fault and neither are you. A relationship alone can be a challenge, but when one or both partners are struggling with their mental health it can… Read More
There is Beauty in the Darkness There is a hidden beauty that mental illness carries. A beauty that is humbling and fills one with a feeling of gratefulness that is challenging to articulate. Accompanying the racing thoughts and the frightening nights are the people who lend themselves to those in need. When agitation takes… Read More
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