Over exaggerating emotions understates real mental illnesses

Anjali Noel Ramesh • February 4, 2020

Unnecessary jokes about mental illness dramatize the real conditions and should not be a habitual tendency. Labeling the response to a tough day as a psychological illness not only disrespects patients who actually have the condition, but also takes away from the gravity of the situation.

Depression does not condemn you

Turner DeArmond • October 28, 2019

For most of my life, I believed I was just like the kids around me. Maybe I was a little more sensitive and a little more emotional than my peers, but I thought that was just my personality. I had days riddled with bad temper and unhappiness, but everyone has hard times, right? 

Panic at the VSCO: yet another way to put down girls

Sarah Ding • October 11, 2019

If you listen closely in the jungle that is high school, you might hear the howls of screeching chairs pulled out from under desks, the teachers sighing as they grade their 50th assignment of the day or...

iGen experiences blue light addiction

Maddie Orr • October 1, 2019

Phone addiction in adolescents has become prevalent in the modern world. There are many ways in which parents, doctors and teenagers themselves can take action against this new problem.

People of Roots N Blues – Chad Moses

Bailey Stover • September 29, 2019

Chad Moses works with the organization To Write Love on Her Arms as a way to spread hope and create a community for those in need who are looking for help.

Love them while they are here

Atiyah Lane • December 20, 2018

Hearing the saying, “People don't love you until you're dead,” I began to understand it more and more. I live in a generation where so many people bury their feelings, and they make it aware that they’re...

The musical mad scientist

Bailey Stover • November 1, 2018

Childhood trauma can inflict lasting damage on a person's emotional and psychological health and well-being, which over time may cause young adults to develop unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Mental illness shouldn’t be self-diagnosed

Elad Gov-Ari • May 6, 2018

Mental illnesses like OCD and depression are often taken lightly, belittling the constant battle those afflicted fight with.

Need for comfort from phones brings depression alongside

Katie Whaley • September 29, 2017

New findings say people who use their cell phones excessively could experience more psychological health issues than those who use their cellphones less.

Blogger psychiatry misleads the ill

Skyler Froese • March 25, 2016

Don't turn to Tumblr when treating mental health.

Hiding from hunger

Caylea Ray • April 16, 2015

Dealing with the danger of eating disorders Eating disorders aren't just a phase; this was one of the points the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) made during its annual week of awareness, Feb....

British scientists identify hormone cortisol as initial possible biomarker for depression

Anna Wright • March 30, 2014

Researchers at Cambridge University discovered what they believe may be the first biomarker for clinical depression. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS),...