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…
I am calling on Yale to lower therapy wait times and meet patient preferences for therapists because anything less would continue to perpetuate Yale’s violent negligence of students with disabilities. When students come to Yale, they become dependent on the University for our most basic needs: food, housing, health and Read more…
I do not have much personal experience with Yale’s Mental Health Services. However, I have seen how my close friends have been unfulfilled, unsatisfied, and underserved by Yale’s Mental Health and Counseling. In some cases, this inadequate care has caused people around me to leave Yale in order to properly Read more…
I’ve been discouraged from seeking help from MH&C because of everyone else’s horror stories. Because there are so few women of color therapists, I never even considered that therapy was for me. I knew that the anxiety of trying to find the right therapist would be too much for me. Read more…
I remember asking for a queer woman of color at my intake appointment and the person laughed. It’s exhausting to explain to someone who doesn’t understand your experience why your mental health is the way it is; relationships with therapists often take years to build. Yale, like the neoliberal university Read more…
“In the past, I have been hesitant to reach out to Yale mental health. Despite my own struggles with mental health that arise throughout the year, I know that many people struggle with accessing therapists at Yale due to long wait times. I don’t want to take away the opportunity Read more…
Walking out of my first YMHC appointment, a wave of emptiness overtook me. Every person I spoke with regarding my mental health was white, whether at the front desk, during my intake, or my therapist. Growing up, my extended family was very involved in my life — constant interaction with Read more…
The first and only time I went to YMHC, I met with a counselor who had to stop me and ask what the term “POC” meant. The fact that I had to explain my literal identity told me that YHMC was not a space for me. As an Asian American Read more…
Since classes were moved online, I’ve continued holding biweekly sessions with the therapist I was seeing at the start of the semester. This experience has made me question what mental health therapy at Yale should truly entail. During this time, I went through some of the worst depression and anxiety Read more…