What Campus Counseling Can Do, and What Happens When It’s Full
Campus counseling can be a good front door into mental health care, but every center has limits. Knowing what it can offer, what…
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42 articles exploring this subject, from Project Semicolon and chapter contributors.
How to Find Mental Health Care Off Campus Without Losing Your Mind First
Finding a therapist off campus can feel like being assigned administrative homework by your own nervous system. A short sequence of practical filters…
Accommodations Are Not Cheating
An academic accommodation is not a secret advantage. It is a way of creating access when a disability changes how a student can…
When Taking a Leave of Absence Is the Healthiest Choice
A leave of absence can feel like falling off the timeline everyone else seems to be following. Sometimes it is not quitting. Sometimes…
Coming Back After a Mental Health Leave
Returning after a mental health leave can feel less like “going back” and more like walking into a life that kept moving without…
What to Expect the First Time You Call a Therapist Yourself
Calling a therapist for yourself can feel bizarrely high-stakes when the actual task is often leaving a voicemail for a stranger who may…
When Your Medication Routine Collides With College Life
College is excellent at destroying routines: different wake times, late nights, weekends away, new pharmacies and a dining schedule apparently designed by dice.…
Lonely in a Crowd: Why College Can Feel So Isolating
College can put thousands of people within walking distance and still leave someone wondering who they could call if they were having a…
Graduation Can Feel Like Grief and Freedom at the Same Time
Graduation is supposed to be a finish line. It can also be the end of routines, relationships, identities and a version of life…
When Family Expectations Follow You to Campus
Moving away does not automatically make family expectations quieter. Sometimes they get louder through phone calls, grades, money, career plans and the invisible…
When You Don’t Know What You Want to Do With Your Life Yet
College has a remarkable way of asking people who recently needed permission to use the bathroom to explain their five-year plan. Uncertainty is…
The Pressure to Make These the Best Years of Your Life
“Best years of your life” sounds cheerful until you are having a terrible Tuesday and wondering whether you are wasting an experience you…
Failing a Class Without Deciding You’re a Failure
A failing grade can have real consequences. It still does not contain enough information to tell you what kind of person you are.
When Productivity Becomes Self-Worth
Getting things done can feel good. Needing to get things done before you are allowed to feel good about yourself is a different…
The Mental Health Cost of Always Being Behind
When every task is late, every message needs an answer and every week begins with catching up, stress stops being an event and…
Perfectionism Loves a Syllabus
A syllabus can turn an entire semester into one long invitation to measure yourself. For perfectionists, every point starts feeling personal long before…
Imposter Syndrome Is Loudest in Rooms You Worked Hard to Enter
Getting into the program, lab, internship or classroom you wanted does not always make you feel qualified. Sometimes achievement just gives doubt a…
Everyone Looks Like They’re Handling College Better Than You
College makes success very public and struggle strangely private. It can look like everybody else received instructions you somehow missed. They did not.