I got an appointment right away. However, throughout the process, I felt like my therapist was constantly trying to tell me I was ok. I think that if you’re not in immediate danger, Yale mental health and counseling tries to brush you to the side. There needs to be people Read more…
To me, maintaining mental wellness and having financial security are directly linked. Having to constantly work towards obtaining funds through on-campus jobs, off-campus jobs, or some combination of the two while participating in a grueling academic semester has a serious potential to drain a student’s spirit. This is exacerbated by Read more…
Living at home means I sleep on my family’s couch, do my work on an old, borrowed laptop, and navigate two family members constantly coming home from work, one being a nurse. My experience of Yale classes online in the spring makes me anxious about a digital semester. As a Read more…
During the COVID-19 crisis, I was living in a housing situation where I would have been unable to regularly attend my classes. I was given permission to return to Yale after Spring break, but the inequity of class and privilege was exposed by those who either struggled or were fine Read more…
I had a massive safety net to fall back onto– stable home in a relatively affluent suburb that I could come home to. All income earners in my house worked jobs that could go remote, which meant that we continued making money without risking exposure. We could keep ordering food Read more…
I haven’t beared the same emotional and financial burdens that many of my FGLI peers have during these past few months. My rage towards Yale, which is demanding that students pay beyond what they can afford, doesn’t compare to that of many of my peers whose lives and beings are Read more…
“Once my spring break class trip was cancelled, I planned to remain on campus for the duration of the break in order to save money on travel and to avoid unsafe living conditions. Midway through, of course, this became impossible for me, as dorms were closing. I spoke with both Read more…
“When I went to my first intake and then waited to be paired with a counselor, I remember doubting whether therapy was even a good idea. I was already not in a good place, and the last thing I wanted to do after was go back. If I had gotten Read more…
“I think hiring more mental health professionals is important, since there seems to be an inadequate amount of psychologists/psychiatrists for the population that needs them. I know that I would have sought mental health counseling earlier, and had stuck with it, if there wasn’t this pattern of counseling services being Read more…
“My name is Shaheer Malik and I am an international student from Pakistan who graduated this spring. After our classes went online due to COVID-19, I decided not to go home like most of my peers and stayed in my off-campus apartment in New Haven. I had wanted to go Read more…