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But your past doesn’t define you at the same time. You are not the sum of your bad experiences. You are the sum of your good, bad and ugly experiences — and every experience you have faced in between.
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An online portal is a great way to streamline the initial screening steps, but different mental health issues require different methods of treatment.
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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?
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But the campus and its gatekeepers of all colors still seem to be failing to understand that no amount of special grants for student-parents will make the campus more diverse if the culture around supporting parenting people does not also shift in practice.
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Ask for pronouns. Make the effort to learn appropriate terminology. Practice eliminating discriminatory language from your repertoire.
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Content warning: The following piece discusses mental illness and eating disorders. I remember having remembered. Thus, what might have otherwise rocked me to my core simply became a way for me to finally explain my penchant for caprice. Just what was missing did not return to me until recently. I
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In an effort to address the mental health climate at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Institute for the Future of Young Americans and the Goldman School of Public Policy hosted a conversation Thursday titled “A Generation Under Pressure: Talking Mental Health at UC Berkeley.”
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Local and national trends indicate that the mental health epidemic is far from over. UC Berkeley recently announced a switch to a new health insurance provider with a less-than-stellar reputation for reimbursing mental health-related care.
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A recent tweet criticizing a UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer sciences professor’s proposed 80-hour weekly academic workload has outraged many community members. But this incident is symptomatic of a larger issue: the toxic work culture on this campus. UC Berkeley is often stereotyped as the “workaholic” UC campus, and it’s time for the community to acknowledge how harmful that title really is.
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My semester of constant knitting taught me a lot about myself but most of all, it inspired me to look for more creative solutions to my everyday mental health issues.
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