Word: mental
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...Yorker article, written by former English Department faculty member and former Adams House non-resident tutor Melanie Thernstrom '87, traces Tadesse's mental state during her college years...
...Dean of the College or a Resident Dean), a being whose job it is to smooth the operations of a bureaucracy, is not in a position to sort through the complexities of a student's personal life that may make a student eligible for a medical (including mental health) leave of absence. A person who has no familiarity with the student in question and/or who has not had the medical background necessary to more fully understand the issues with which a student may be struggling, is in no position to say what is best for any particular student...
Second, not only is an unqualified person invested with medical authority, this person also has the power to make a potentially life-threatening miscalculation. For many students with mental health concerns, school is a stabilizing influence in their lives. To go home to an abusive family, or to leave the support structure of friends that they have established in their House, would be disastrous. Thus, in a misguided and paternalistic attempt to somehow improve a student's life, the College could very well misstep and send someone "over the edge...
...didn't capitalize on our man-up opportunities and we made more mental mistakes today than we have the entire year," Eckert added...
British rower Steve Redgrave is a worrier. he claims fretting is essential to winning races. "If you're not worrying, you lose your mental edge," says Redgrave. "Before you know it, somebody comes from out of the woodwork to pull a half a length ahead of you." Apparently the worrying has paid off for him. Nobody has got ahead of Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, his partner in the coxless pairs, for four years. Redgrave and Pinsent have racked up a string of more than 50 international wins in pairs, as well as four consecutive world championships and a gold medal...