Reading Time: 2 minutes Once, when I went to a conference and took a class about mental health, a speaker said that having Anxiety is like always hearing boss music, but the boss never actually appears. People said that this was an interesting and accurate description. Having diagnosed Anxiety is commonly confused with feeling anxious in today’s world. But […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The opening social for UVU’s mental health club UV YOU Matter was held in the Science Building March 6. Adam Tonks, club president and biochemistry major, and Maria Stephens, club vice president and digital marketing major, planned for the social to be more of an informational meeting to help students know what to expect from […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes College is challenging within itself, but adding mental illness to the mix takes the word “challenge” to a whole new level. According to research by National Alliance on Mental Illness, mental health is a growing issue among students. NAMI found that one in four students have a diagnosable illness, and 40 percent do not seek […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes One out of every four people in the U.S. are suffering from some sort of mental illness at any given moment. The odds that a person will experience mental illness at some point in their life are even higher, at about 50 percent. While depressive illnesses are the largest contributors to mental illness, social phobia […]