Mental Health
Humanists Honor Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher
Storm Troopers, Wookies, and Star Wars fans gathered to watch actress Carrie Fisher receive the Humanist Hub's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism on Monday.
Students Enjoy Coloring and Zumba During ‘Health Week’
Complete with a wide array of events ranging from a Berry Brain Break, to a Mental Health Open Mic and massages, the Freshman Class Committee kicked off a more comprehensively envisioned “Freshman Health Week” this week than in previous years.
A Vieux From the Trees: You're Not You When You're ________
After 21 years in my own body and mind, I know some basic things I need to function best: six to eight hours of sleep, breakfast, comfortable clothes and footwear, my prescribed meds for depression and asthma, feeling respected by my co-workers, a balance of social time and solitude, a healthy level of engagement in tasks.
Freshmen Health Project
Freshmen Undergraduate Council Representatives Jack Kelley ‘19 and Alex Popovski ‘19 sort shirts to be handed out at the kickoff event for the 2016 Freshman Health Project, a week of events to get freshmen thinking about their physical and mental health.
Mental Health Concerns Increase Nationwide
An annual survey shows that rates of mental illness are rising, with anxiety surpassing depression as the most prevalent mental illness among students, a trend with many underlying causes according to experts.
Project Seeks to Make Harvard Students Happier
For the past seven weeks, a project has presented 300 Harvard students with a different kind of challenge: to be happy.
Mental Health Matters Photoshoot
Students participate in the "Mental Health Matters" photoshoot in Cabot dining hall. The photoshoot took place in all quad dining halls on Saturday, and its purpose was to encourage students to save peer counseling groups' phone numbers into their phones.
‘Chatroom’ Looks to Start a Conversation
The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s interpretation of the 2005 play-turned-movie will run from Mar. 3 to 6 at the Loeb Experimental Theater. It follows the story of Jim, a depressed teenager who, after failing to find professional help, turns to an online chatroom. Behind the impenetrable veil of the internet, not everyone is who they appear to be.
A Vieux from the Trees: My Mental Health Issues Aren’t About Harvard
Introducing one of our new columns, Annie C. Harvieux's "A Vieux from the Trees."
New Diversity-Focused Peer Counseling Group Launches
Indigo, a new peer counseling group which will specifically address issues of race and class in mental health, is set to commence operations next Saturday.
Indigo Peer Counseling
Indigo Peer Counseling is a new student group on campus that offers counseling on issues related to race, socioeconomic status, foster care, and more. Counseling will begin on Saturday, February 20 in their new office in the basement of Adams House H entryway.
Peer Counseling Groups Wrap Up Training For New Counselors
After kicking off the semester with a week of educational workshops, a new batch of student counselors are now ready to advise their peers in approaching health, social, and personal concerns.
Making Mental Health Services More Accessible
QuadTalk is an excellent initiative. It acknowledges the potential for substantial unmet need for these mental health services in the Quad, where distance from the main resources on campus could pose a significant obstacle for residents in need of them.
Quad Talk
A sign hangs over the door of an office in Pforzheimer House designated as a new shared space between the various peer counseling groups on campus. “Quad Talks” will be held Sunday through Thursday evenings and hosted by a different group every night in an effort to grant easier access to peer counseling groups to students housed in the Quad.
New Initiative Brings Mental Health Resources to the Quad
QuadTalk, a new initiative aimed at expanding mental health resources to Harvard’s Radcliffe Quad, opened its doors Sunday night in the basement of Pforzheimer House.
New UC Leaders Outline Agenda for Semester
Newly elected Undergraduate Council President Shaiba Rather ’17 and Vice President Daniel V. Banks ’17 said the Council’s goals this semester will include increasing administrative oversight of final clubs and bolstering sexual assault prevention.
Students Rally Against Sexual Assault
Members of the Harvard community gathered to demand administrative change and to show support for survivors of sexual assault on Thursday afternoon.
Greenlaw and Morris
Undergraduate Council presidential candidate William A. Greenlaw ’17 answers a question during the UC Debates held at the Institute of Politics on Tuesday evening. Greenlaw and his running mate William F. Morris IV ’17 are campaigning on a platform emphasizing access to student mental health resources.
Gajdzik and Ott
Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Nick E. Gajdzik ’16-’17 answers a question during the UC Debates held at the Institute of Politics on Tuesday evening. Gajdzik and his running mate Jeffrey M. Ott ’16-’17 are outsider candidates who have never served on the UC and compete on the varsity wrestling team.
Gathering Discusses Mental Health Issues Facing Minorities
Students, alumni, and mental health professionals gathered to discuss the unique mental health struggles that can affect minority students in a “lunch and learn” session on Saturday afternoon.
Write Yourself Out of this Box
“You can write yourself out of anything,” I tell myself as a sort of mantra while I struggle to type up a simple, short lab report for my graduation-requirement science class, one that’s clearly designed for humanities majors but still manages to leave me with a backpack full of returned tests covered in inky red X’s.
Martha Coakley on Mental Health
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley joined Student Mental Health Liaisons and other undergraduates to discuss the stigma surrounding mental health at Harvard and nationwide, and the necessity of better and more consistent mental health education at all levels of the school system.
Students Talk Campus Mental Health Stigma With Coakley
In a discussion about mental health with former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, College students called on Harvard and student groups to address institutional problems and stigma surrounding mental health on campus.