Word: mentality
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...reason why most of her adult life has been so, as she puts it, “f*cked up.” The doctor, upon breaking the news, easily rattles off a list of other famous and brilliant people who also suffered from a combination of alcohol and mental disorders, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Cole Porter, Yves St. Laurent, and Vivien Leigh. Add these names to a more general list of brilliant people with mental disorders, including Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Isaac Newton, and one starts to get the sense that...
...should not be in denial of our problems, especially if those problems can be chronically or fatally harmful. We certainly should not feel ashamed to seek help; we absolutely should not be made to feel inept when we do so. Harvard offers an abundance of mental health services, but it should do more to make its students feel confident and comfortable using these services...
True depressive, eating, and anxiety disorders are to be treated neither lightly nor as a means to an end of greatness. Depression can kill. Anorexia does kill. To its credit, Harvard seems to be aware of these dangers. There are many student and professional mental health groups here on campus waiting eagerly to help us if and when we need them...
These numbers are not trivial. Therapy has a real, beneficial effect. Harvard knows this and is trying to make us aware of it with numerous mental health days and free dining hall-based depression screenings throughout the year. But in our world, where the person sitting next to us in Lamont is just as stressed as we are, the idea of seeking help can appear as sign of weakness to our peers, a sign that we just “can’t hack it.” Many students who are suffering in silence do so because they?...
...hectic environment immediately led one to wonder: How can anybody possibly learn under these conditions? The answer, of course, is that they cannot. Students’ mental aptitude and willingness to learn becomes irrelevant. The level of activity and disorder fosters an atmosphere where you literally cannot hear yourself think, let alone comprehend new ideas and concepts...