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...College has an amazing way of making it okay to not get out of bed in the morning,” says Laura M. Lawless ’00. Many of her years at Harvard were troubled with depression, but when she did get out of bed, she got moving. Lawless, now 23, is currently the reigning Miss Arizona, and when she finishes touring the country to raise awareness about mental health, she’ll get around to finishing her law degree at Arizona State University. Lawless grew up in New York, where she competed in the Junior Miss...
...behind the swimsuit catwalks and glittering tiaras, things were more complicated. Lawless had been diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 17. At the time, she responded well to medication, beginning her freshman year at Harvard feeling optimistic. But come sophomore fall, things weren’t going quite as well. And despite Lawless’s positive past experience with treatment, she was reluctant to seek help. “I wanted to fix it myself,” she says, and is first to acknowledge the irony of that statement, coming from a psychology concentrator...
...long distance boyfriend in New York, and looking back, she says he was yet another justification for her isolation. Lawless avoided the dining hall and ate in her room, but as she fell into a cycle of depression, she only felt worse. She says the achievements of her fellow undergraduates only compounded her insecurity...
...Sometimes I thought that the smartest person at Harvard was living in my room,” recalls Lawless, “And it wasn’t me.” Still, she says that roommate, Caroline Kung ’00, was a major source of support during those difficult years. The two remain friends, though Kung now lives in Hong Kong...
Despite her initial refusal to seek help, Lawless found herself at University Health Services (UHS). Overall, she says, she had a good experience, notwithstanding the often negative reputation the services have. But yes, they did ask her if she was pregnant several times...