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Prioritizing Mental Health After Tragedy with a School-Wide Mental Health Field Day: From the Advisors

Active Minds

From the advisors (school counselors): Kaitlyn Robichaud and Courtney Selig This blog was written by Whitman-Hanson Regional High School’s Active Minds advisors about their experience supporting student-led efforts to advance mental health in their community. Talk about “great minds think alike!”

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The Intersection of Mental Health and Creativity

Active Minds

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a talk on my campus about sharing your mental health story hosted by my Active Minds chapter for Mental Health Awareness Month. At the time, I was a new mental health advocate, someone who had only been diagnosed with OCD two years prior.

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Our mental health 'ins and outs'

Student Minds

The Editorial Team are here to kickstart 2024 with their mental health 'ins and outs'. Student Minds Blog Editorial Team ⭐ Our 'ins and outs' for 2024 ⭐ ? Whether you are looking for support for your own mental health at university or supporting a friend, help is available. Emily T: Can you think of any others?

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Importance of mental health during university studies

Student Minds

Ellen explores the importance of mental health during one's university years as well as strategies to nurture and maintain it. At the same time, it can be a period of intense stress and mental health challenges because you are about to start something new. This is what helps you to survive at university.

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A leap of faith: starting a masters with a mental health condition

Student Minds

Madeleine describes how it feels to make the decision to start a masters with a mental health condition and how she reached this choice. This was not a decision I took lightly, as someone whose mental health illness is triggered by stress, I was worried I would be unable to face the pressure a masters would entail.

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Get to Know Active Minds’ Summer 2023 Interns and Their Passion for Mental Health

Active Minds

We’re excited to learn and grow alongside these passionate mental health advocates for the duration of their internship. Our interns are involved in every facet of our work, from our communications and social media to Active Minds’ daily operations, to our mental health programming and community-building.

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I Am Black History: The Importance of Mental Health in Carrying On Legacies

Active Minds

I know the value of Black History, and I know we are still embodying it today — but, I also know, we cannot sustain Black History if we do not also protect our mental health. ” This is why preserving our mental health and protecting our mental well-being is vital because we out here making History.