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Both my parents work in the mental health field; I never would have thought twice about any of my friends seeking help. However, to go to the fourth floor of UHS and request counseling was to admit to myself that I lacked confidence in my ability to sort out my problems alone. I needed help, and—like most Harvard students I know—I was uncomfortable admitting...
This problem of students’ reluctance to ask for help is also the Mental Health Task Force’s greatest impediment to effective reform. Creating a structure in which more students are encouraged to utilize services requires an extensive devotion of resources—far more than has yet been publicly proposed...
...intensity of the camp environment, both socially and academically, provides a distilled—and admittedly simpler—version of the Harvard experience. Nonetheless, the University could learn much from the camp’s commitment to its students’ mental health. Every House ought to employ live-in mental health professionals to serve as all-hours resources for students and staff. These individuals could work alongside senior tutors, who are already overburdened with administrative responsibilities, to keep up with particular students, provide training to tutors and coordinate between academic and health professionals. If Harvard were to embrace...
...addressing mental health here, it would be careless not to ask as well: What about Harvard contributes to mental illness? Administrators often shy away from this approach—instead choosing to focus on the more palatable public-relations response that the sharp rise of mental illness at Harvard can be attributed to scientific improvements, which have allowed more mental illness sufferers to achieve admittance to Harvard than ever before. While certainly a factor, this trend does not explain why so many undergraduates encounter mental health problems for the very first time after reaching college...
...When we try not to think about something, it often rebounds with greater frequency in our dreams,” Kozak said. “Our study focuses on this phenomenon and it is a crossroads between mental control and looking at what happens when we dream...