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...felt like they needed mental health care at some point during the last year, but did not seek it. The top three reasons for refraining included: negative expectations about the effects of assistance, feelings of being too busy to seek or receive care, and feelings of stigma or shame about needing help. This statistic is unsettling for a number of reasons, but the most striking of these is its sheer magnitude. A startlingly high percentage of students experience severe emotional distress and yet feel compelled to forgo professional help...
...their decisions. The truth is that the most common mental health problems faced by students are, in fact, highly treatable. Moreover, in many cases there are multiple ways to address a given problem—meaning that treatment is also highly flexible and efficient. Much of the stigma and shame that students feel when they struggle with emotional distress comes from the widely held belief that their experience is uncommon. In reality, emotional distress is very common among college students, including those who go to Harvard. In a recent survey of student well-being, 45 percent of Harvard students reported...
...These findings are both troubling and informative. Again we are confronted with the staggering number of students who experience severe, debilitating emotional distress at some point during their college years. At the same time, however, this finding conveys an important message about the inconsistency of the culture of shame that often accompanies a student’s struggle with emotional distress at Harvard. With almost half of the student body having experienced functionally significant depressive feelings, emotional distress is anything but uncommon and certainly not the result of personal weakness or inadequacy...
...Nevertheless, students often feel shame about seeking help. While each person’s reasons for this feeling of shame may vary, it is likely that much of this stigma can be attributed to a general feeling that seeking professional help for issues related to mental health is uncommon at Harvard. Once again, the numbers tell quite a different story. By the time they graduate, 40 percent of Harvard students will have sought and received services from Mental Health Services or the Bureau of Study Counsel. And yet, students who are struggling with emotional distress or who are accessing services...
...still just friends; that’s all.Continuing the trend of Italian food, we stopped by a nominally less questionable pizzeria that actually had a real name several blocks away from Columbia. There would be no illicit cover-ups here, just pizza that put Noch’s to shame. Although the featured item was “jumbo” slices that were bigger and most likely tastier than Dennis’ face, Tim and I opted for a large pie and never looked back.Much like our dining experiences throughout the weekend, the game against the Lions was intense...