The Morning After: Anxiety, Regret and Alcohol
The morning after drinking can bring physical symptoms, missing pieces of memory and a brutal replay of everything you might have said or…
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Anxiety disorder
13 articles exploring this subject, from Project Semicolon and chapter contributors.
When Going Home for Break Doesn’t Feel Like Going Home
Campus empties out and everyone starts talking about going home as if home means the same thing to everybody. It doesn’t. Break can…
Transfer Shock Is Real
Transferring can look like a clean academic move on paper and feel like social whiplash in real life. You may know how college…
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…
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 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 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…
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.
How to Ask a Professor for Help Before Everything Falls Apart
The ideal time to email a professor is before three missing assignments have become an archaeological site. You do not need to disclose…
Roommates Can Affect Your Mental Health More Than You Think
Your room is supposed to be where college stops for a minute. When the person sharing it makes the space tense, chaotic or…
You Are Not Your Roommate’s Therapist
Living six feet from someone can make you the first person to notice when they are struggling. It does not make you their…