Featured Posts Remembering Brian: Twenty-Five Years Later At twenty five years, it’s about all the things he has missed. It’s the longing for everything that didn’t happen, the things that couldn’t happen, because he’s no longer here. Grief has been a strange road, one that cannot truly be explained. It started with being all-consuming, a disbelief that… Back to School, Back to Connection: Prioritize Your Mental Health 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. “What Will People Say?”: Mental Health in Immigrant Families 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. View all the latest blog posts
Back to School, Back to Connection: Prioritize Your Mental Health 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.
“What Will People Say?”: Mental Health in Immigrant Families 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 Mental Health Doesn’t Have to be Scary: Finding Resources and Building Community Every Halloween, we’re reminded that, sometimes, it can be fun to be a little scared: from haunted houses, to horror movies, to spooky costumes, it’s part of the excitement. But, there are also times we try to avoid feeling scared, or stressed, or unsure. For many, one of… Read More Twenty Years of Difficulties and Differences Contextualized: How My ADHD Diagnosis Changed How I Live College is everything they tell you it will be: challenging, freeing, exhausting, exhilarating, and so much more. It tests you at every corner, never giving you a break before a new challenge meets you at the next turn. Of course, I was prepared for the start… Read More Depression Screening Was the First Step to My Fresh Start It was not until my freshman year of college, in the fall of 2019, that I realized I might be suffering from depression. I was sad for no reason. Still tired after getting a good night’s rest. Something felt off. But, to those around me, I… Read More Decolonizing Mental Health During Hispanic Heritage Month and Beyond As a young woman who comes from a Hispanic family and has seen first-hand how much culture and identity can impact access to mental health education and resources, I knew that when I was given the opportunity to do mental health research as an Active Minds Emerging Scholar I was… Read More Growing Up with Undiagnosed OCD: How My Diagnosis Changed My Perspective Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation. I want to start by telling you about the bane of my existence in elementary school: card changes. Each day all the cards started on green, but if you did something wrong, the teacher would… Read More Mental Health Equity is Health Equity When it comes to mental health, it’s easy to see that not everyone has access to the same resources or help when they need it. From a lack of affordable therapy, to cultural stigmas, to unequal access to mental health education, the disparities are apparent. The goal that… Read More Welcome Active Minds Fall 2021 Interns Welcome to our awesome group of fall 2021 interns! We’re so excited to work with them to change the conversation around mental health. Hannah Whitfield 1. Where do you (or did you) go to school? What do you study? I graduated from the University of… Read More Self-Care: What Is It and How Do I Do It? Making Self-Care Personal and Intentional Throughout the past year and a half, self-care has been a topic of discussion everywhere: from social media to college campuses to major media outlets. The pandemic has forced us to slow down, and during that time, many have discovered how beneficial daily acts of self-care can be. Now that… Read More How to Be There for Yourself While Caring for Others During National Recovery Month, I’m thinking of those who have succeeded in overcoming their addiction, those who are on the long path to recovery, and those who haven’t quite made that choice yet, but hopefully will someday. When you have a loved one living with addiction, watching them… Read More The World Needs You Here Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. “The world needs you here.” These are the exact words that I so desperately needed to hear when I was just twelve years old. This phrase could have changed my life; and now, I know that it can change the… Read More 26 / 49
Mental Health Doesn’t Have to be Scary: Finding Resources and Building Community Every Halloween, we’re reminded that, sometimes, it can be fun to be a little scared: from haunted houses, to horror movies, to spooky costumes, it’s part of the excitement. But, there are also times we try to avoid feeling scared, or stressed, or unsure. For many, one of… Read More
Twenty Years of Difficulties and Differences Contextualized: How My ADHD Diagnosis Changed How I Live College is everything they tell you it will be: challenging, freeing, exhausting, exhilarating, and so much more. It tests you at every corner, never giving you a break before a new challenge meets you at the next turn. Of course, I was prepared for the start… Read More
Depression Screening Was the First Step to My Fresh Start It was not until my freshman year of college, in the fall of 2019, that I realized I might be suffering from depression. I was sad for no reason. Still tired after getting a good night’s rest. Something felt off. But, to those around me, I… Read More
Decolonizing Mental Health During Hispanic Heritage Month and Beyond As a young woman who comes from a Hispanic family and has seen first-hand how much culture and identity can impact access to mental health education and resources, I knew that when I was given the opportunity to do mental health research as an Active Minds Emerging Scholar I was… Read More
Growing Up with Undiagnosed OCD: How My Diagnosis Changed My Perspective Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation. I want to start by telling you about the bane of my existence in elementary school: card changes. Each day all the cards started on green, but if you did something wrong, the teacher would… Read More
Mental Health Equity is Health Equity When it comes to mental health, it’s easy to see that not everyone has access to the same resources or help when they need it. From a lack of affordable therapy, to cultural stigmas, to unequal access to mental health education, the disparities are apparent. The goal that… Read More
Welcome Active Minds Fall 2021 Interns Welcome to our awesome group of fall 2021 interns! We’re so excited to work with them to change the conversation around mental health. Hannah Whitfield 1. Where do you (or did you) go to school? What do you study? I graduated from the University of… Read More
Self-Care: What Is It and How Do I Do It? Making Self-Care Personal and Intentional Throughout the past year and a half, self-care has been a topic of discussion everywhere: from social media to college campuses to major media outlets. The pandemic has forced us to slow down, and during that time, many have discovered how beneficial daily acts of self-care can be. Now that… Read More
How to Be There for Yourself While Caring for Others During National Recovery Month, I’m thinking of those who have succeeded in overcoming their addiction, those who are on the long path to recovery, and those who haven’t quite made that choice yet, but hopefully will someday. When you have a loved one living with addiction, watching them… Read More
The World Needs You Here Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. “The world needs you here.” These are the exact words that I so desperately needed to hear when I was just twelve years old. This phrase could have changed my life; and now, I know that it can change the… Read More
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