Word: mentality
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...estimated 900 students—may find it difficult to do so because of Harvard’s failure to foster a strong club sports program through adequate funding. The status quo is lamentable because club sports play an important role in the undergraduate experience. Especially now, during Mental Health Awareness Month, Harvard should recognize that club sports provide an opportunity for undergraduate social interaction and a much-needed break from academic stress. Team members hail from different houses so teams can promote a campus-wide sense of community. Club sports also offer students exercise and the psychological benefits that...
This is the final oped in a series on Mental Health Awareness Month at Harvard...
People who have not experienced a psychotic break, a panic attack, a depressive episode, an obsessive cycle, a want to hurt themself or a want to die—the feeling of being out of control that symptomizes mental illness—generally do not understand the anguish of these experiences. Not mean-spiritedness, but rather a lack of empathy—stemming, presumably, from a lack of knowledge—must therefore be the source of these claims: “I’m so depressed! I got a C- on my exam...
...incidence of illness-as-punchline remains an all too common occurrence in our otherwise hyper-P.C. environment. Straight people don’t say, “That’s so gay” because they understand why it might be hurtful; but knowledge about mental illness is often lacking and misinformed, and many underestimate (or fail to consider) the severity of mental illness and the grief that jokes at its expense may cause. The Harvard community should be commended for the sensitivity and support it has shown to students who have partaken in mental health-related activities...
...confusing and often ambiguous nature of many mental illnesses’ diagnostic criteria contribute to a widespread ignorance. The website of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) points out that “the fact that many, if not most, people have experienced mental health problems that mimic or even match some of the symptoms of a diagnosable mental disorder tends, ironically, to prompt many people to underestimate the painful, disabling nature of severe mental illness.” Indeed, people don’t say, “My back hurts! OMG I so have leukemia...