ASUC Mental Health Commission

With finals just around the corner, UC Berkeley students and organizations offer tips on how to destress and events to help the campus community avoid mental burnout. 

Thin Rati Oo is running independently for her second term on the ASUC Senate on community-based platforms of DEI, wellness and belonging. A campus sophomore, Oo majors in public health and anthropology and minors in public policy. 

We need a broad, unified response to this issue from the student body to even catch campus’s attention. This is why we are asking each and every student and ally to sign the petition demanding that UC Berkeley support students taking critically needed mental health breaks.

Where there are gaps in mental health services at UC Berkeley, student organizations are looking to fill them. 

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, sparking conversations about resource accessibility and destigmatization among UC Berkeley health services, student-led organizations and the city of Berkeley.

War in Ukraine, pandemic stress and midterm season anxieties — these are just a few of the stressors that may be impacting UC Berkeley students’ mental health as they navigate through the complexities of college life.

The ASUC Senate discussed current semester initiatives and plans regarding equity, inclusion and services for new students at its Wednesday night meeting.

For many, life during the pandemic — which includes being isolated from friends, pondering the uncertainty of the future and hopping from meal to meal without much other structure — is bringing increased anxiety and depression.

Whose first thought, in the face of grief, is to figure out how to reschedule that Econ midterm or get an extension on a paper? 

Less than a year after starting her studies at UC Berkeley, Anh-Vy Phan has withdrawn from the school and now faces a $24,000 debt she cannot pay.