Last year for Valentine’s Day, we featured uplifting messages from members of the Stevens community. Although cute and well-received, this year we wanted to use our platform to do something even more meaningful.
Posts published in “Mental Health Issue”
The Mental Health Issue, published on 2/14/2020 discusses mental health resources at Stevens, featuring student advocacy and developments in recent years, and remembers Aileen Quinn, a student who passed two years prior by suicide.
I have always felt a cloud hanging over me ever since I was young. And like a cloud, I’ve had weather patterns of my own.
Often referred to as “the eyes and ears on the ground,” Resident Assistants (RAs) serve as the first line of defense if a situation arises among residents.
For the majority of people, college is a slew of new experiences. New environments, new people, new regimens. It’s stressful. Some people may experience more challenges than others, but it is important to know that mental health is something that should not be shied away from.
I was actually pretty used to screams coming from the kitchen as a kid, as awful as that might sound, but this one was different.
Regardless of how, we all have a personal connection to Stevens. Some members of our student community have done incredible work in improving the mental health resources that we have at Stevens.
If I’m being honest, I can’t remember a time when I was in school and wasn’t stressed. Even in middle school when I really shouldn’t have been so worried about schoolwork, I was fixated on being the best of the best.
At the beginning of the semester, a new Instagram page appeared called humansofstevens. Unlike the popular tea pages revealing the hidden gossip on campus, this account has a different approach: It posts a sometimes candid and always beautiful photo of a student, captioned with a joyful, intimate quote about their life.
Mental health has become an increasingly difficult subject to navigate in the public sphere. Every movement advocating for the de-stigmatization of mental health issues ostensibly invites a pushback that claims millennials and Generation Z are overly sensitive and mental health does not warrant a concerted effort to maintain.
At Stevens, it is important that all students have access to the resources they need to improve their mental health. Positive mental health is something that people struggle with in today’s society, so it’s something everyone should aim to improve.