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...need for college students to understand the nature of mental illness is imperative and timely, for most illnesses’ symptoms first surface in late adolescence and early adulthood. Be sensitive, be open-minded, be aware and get informed: When others reference mental health in a trivial or stigmatizing way, remind them that mental illness is a serious issue that affects everybody. Hundreds of Harvard students live with mental illness; you or a loved one may suffer from a disease that others may, in their ignorance, attempt to render funny. Ideally, the result of education about mental illness will...
...grader who realizes that the Silent Game “isn’t actually fun” to an instant-messaging teenage girl whose “innards R swarming w/2morous growths,” Rich’s young characters expose absurdity with the regrettable wisdom of adulthood.“Ant Farm” is mostly gloomy and almost always hilarious in its take on the absurd, whether that’s education, religion, or war. In 57 sketches that can be read in under a minute each, Rich finds humor amid the darkest of scenarios...
NEXT TIME YOUR CHILD assails you for ruining her life, buy her a book by Stella Chess. Starting in 1956, the child psychiatrist, with her husband Alexander Thomas, followed 133 children from infancy through adulthood. The findings, the earliest of which were published in 1960, challenged the era's accepted wisdom that infants were blank slates to be doomed or graced by parents. They found that children were born with distinct temperaments that, in conjunction with parental styles, determined the people they would become...
...business of promoting the wellbeing of students and, as Susan B. Marine, director of the Women’s Center, wrote in an e-mail to a concerned student, “Access to information about sexual health, decision-making, and well-being is an integral part of adulthood, and our role as educators is to enable all students who wish to learn about their own development to have access to accurate, meaningful information...
...this horror show of raging fights, "mother's-little-helpers," and constant humiliation, Kominsky Crumb establishes the sub-themes that will run through her life and art: negative self image, always striving to please others and the need to escape. Subsequent chapters detail the author's early adulthood as the quintessential hippie chick. At 19 she hangs out in New York's Lower East Side and soon becomes pregnant amidst a series of lovers, none of whom she can recall since she was so high all the time. These stories of free love, massive drug and alcohol abuse...