I feel like I’m in a very good position because I was able to use the DSA and get paid research work over the summer. But I know some of the people I’m planning on living with next year are just planning on getting our apartment to live in and Read more…
As a low-income student, I was constantly aware of what could happen if something drastic occurred to change my status from poor but doing okay to downright struggling. That “something drastic” has occurred, and no one knows when it will end. I am constantly paying for my parents’ groceries to Read more…
“I have been working at Yale since before classes started my first year. I spent Camp Yale scheduling job interviews, as my number one priority was to get an on-campus job. Going to this school would not have been possible unless I could make money. I felt lucky that I Read more…
During my sophomore year, I remember asking my therapist for weekly instead of biweekly meetings, and because her schedule was so full with other patients she couldn’t meet with me every week. I think if Yale Mental Health had more therapists of color, specifically women of color, like the one Read more…
Lower therapy wait times are imperative because mental health affects every aspect of a person’s life. Bad mental health could negatively affect one’s mood and self-confidence, one’s friendships and relationships, one’s academic performance, one’s eating and exercising habits, and even one’s ability to get out of bed in the morning. Read more…
I’ve had a lot of experience with mental illness; I have depression and anxiety, and I have been in an intensive outpatient program. I think it’s very important to have timely access to mental health professionals because in my experience, I didn’t want to get help until I was already Read more…
When I arrived at Yale as a first-year in the fall of 2019, I had just had the traumatic experience of my sister being diagnosed with a serious illness. At Yale, I dealt with the anxiety and depression this reality had caused me by not talking about it and focusing Read more…
“I’m driving distance from Yale, I live off campus, so I never had to deal with the stress of getting stuff out of my room… In many ways I was in a situation that Yale assumed many of its students would be in, and even then didn’t feel supported by Read more…
In many ways, COVID affected me a lot less than many other people. I was able to stay home after spring break and was also able to take in two friends of mine who didn’t have anywhere else to go and were turned away by Yale from staying on campus. Read more…
“Transitioning to Yale from a public high school in rural Wisconsin posed both academic and cultural challenges that exacerbated my anxiety and imposter syndrome. I struggled everyday with homesickness and depression but still refused to reach out to Yale Mental Health and Counseling to avoid false hope of getting actual Read more…