Making Stress Your Friend
This video has some surprising information that we found to be really interesting! It’s 14 minutes long, but fun and interesting! How do you think about stress? Did this video change your views a...
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What Depression Really Looks Like
An awesome article by Buzzfeed was published about what depression actually looks like. We think it’s important to understand that depression is a universal thing, meaning that it can affect ANYONE. Often, depression...
Mental Health Month
May is recognized as Mental Health Month. During the following month, time is taken to raise awareness and educate the public about the realities of living with mental illness. Although mental health issues are...
Self Evaluator Assessment Tool
The Self Evaluator tool is a Project of the Jed Foundation and was developed for ULifeline by Duke University School of Medicine. It screens for thirteen of the most common mental health conditions that college...
Text or talk face-to-face?
In today’s world there is so much technology available to us, and often this technology tries to help us by making things easier. However, this is not always the case. For example, have you...
Therapy: it really does work
How could simply talking to someone make you feel better? Sometimes when you feel so bad you think there’s nothing anyone could possible say that would help or make you feel better. Yet therapy helps millions...
Worry Stones
Have you heard of “worry stones” before? A worry stone is a stone that you can carry in your pocket (or anywhere on you) that can be useful in helping to relieve anxiety or...
Transition Year
If you plan to go to college, this transition can be one of the largest transitions that will happen in your life. Every aspect of it is new, and it can come with many...
Should I Send It?
We’ve already blogged about what it means to be in a respectful relationship, but now we want to tackle a more specific topic: Sexting. Sexting can seem harmless, especially when it is happening between...
Goodbye, Headclutcher
Have you thought about how seeing an image can change the way you feel about something? Maybe you hate a certain fast food chain but they post a new sandwich that looks amazing and...
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