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“Bye Bye”: Back-to-School Anxiety & How Parents Can Intervene

by | August 19, 2025 | Anxiety, Articles, General Mental Health, Wellbeing | 0 Comments

As August rolls around each year, it signifies the beginning of a new school year, promising a fresh start to learn and grow with peers. A new school year offers room to make new memories, new friendships, and an opportunity to pursue academic goals. Despite this,...
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A Parent’s Guide to Impostor Syndrome

by | July 8, 2025 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

As a parent, there is a great deal of responsibility placed on one to ensure they are the ideal role model for their children to look up to. One has to be mindful of what morals or values they want to instill into their children to emulate. This can be true when...
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Scrolling Into Insecurity- Social Media’s effects on Eating Disorders

by | July 3, 2025 | General Mental Health, Other mental illness | 0 Comments

Up to 95% of adolescents, ages 13-17 years old, report using a social media platform, with more than a third saying that they use social media almost constantly [1]. Social media has become a large part of our lives, and the way it impacts the youth has become a huge...
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My Synesthesia Causes Me to Hear Colors and Taste Sounds

by | June 17, 2025 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

We all know what our senses are and how we use them every day, but what if you could hear colors and taste sounds? This connection between senses is called Synesthesia, and some people have this complex condition inside their minds. Synesthesia is a mental condition...
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Media’s Romanticization of Mental Health Conditions

by | May 17, 2025 | Articles, General Mental Health | 0 Comments

In contemporary culture, there are many subgenres and niches available for consumption online. Information now being so readily available has produced a new wave of awareness for young people. Concepts that were once reserved for strictly academic contexts now run...
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

by | April 21, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments

April is typically a time in the year that can symbolize new beginnings or hope for the future. This month also happens to represent Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), which poses an opportunity for survivors to share their testimonies with greater recognition....
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In Plain Sight: A Focus On the Mental Health of Human Trafficking Survivors

by | April 18, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments

It’s been estimated that are 27.6 million individuals trafficked worldwide at any given time regardless of age, background, or nationality (United States Department of State, 2023, p. 1). Such a statistic shifts focus to how traffickers will exploit one for their own...
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Inside the Cuckoo’s Nest: My Time in a Psych Ward

by | September 16, 2024 | Articles | 0 Comments

My only knowledge of psych wards growing up was from movies. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Girl Interrupted, etc. I never knew anyone who had personally been admitted, or at least no one honest about it. My high school in Hartford, CT was...
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The loss of someone you don’t know: How Matthew Perry’s death affected me

by | January 26, 2024 | Community Stories | 0 Comments

I was in elementary school when I first watched an episode of Friends. I was immediately drawn to the character of Chandler. We were both awkward. We were both funny. We both had problems. He was one of my first TV crushes after Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I became...
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The Effects of Schizophrenia and Depression on Everyday Life

by | January 9, 2024 | Articles, Depression | 0 Comments

Schizophrenia is a life-long mental health condition that affects the way someone perceives reality, and can include various symptoms including experiencing delusions and or experiencing hallucinations. Depression is a mental health condition that negatively affects...
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What is a Panic Attack?

What is a Panic Attack?

by | Jul 20, 2018 | ,

What is a panic attack? How long do they last? Are they scary? A panic attack is psychological and is an overreaction of your adrenal system. A panic attack can happen within a moment’s notice. They occur because there is a sense of danger and your mind and body start...

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