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According to UHS Chief of Mental Health Dr. Richard D. Kadison and Director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling Dr. Paul Barreira, the numbers of students who are hospitalized for psychiatric reasons, return from hospitalization, or take medical leaves have remained relatively consistent over this period.
Yet on that day in the campus health center, Janie’s options significantly narrowed. The UHS intake session had taken a greater toll than she anticipated.
So she reverted to a habit she had developed over winter break: she went down to the first floor of UHS and locked herself in a bathroom, away from everyone and alone with her thoughts. By the time her cell phone rang, it had been five hours, yet she had...
In a 2009 interview with The Crimson, Barreira said that because the proportion of Harvard students who receive mental health services is higher than the national average, the percentage that report seriously considering suicide is much lower than the national statistic. Janie’s openness about her suicidal thoughts...
In December 2009, the family of John B. Edwards III ’10 filed a lawsuit that implicated UHS in their son’s apparent suicide, citing misconduct on the part of UHS prescribers.