Tag: mental health
Lessons Learned: How roller skating (kind of) saved my life
Content warning: The following article discusses depression. Feb. 23, 2024: instead of the high static friction between my shoes and the ground, there are wheels...
Emmons offers a plethora of mental health services
According to their website, Emmons features several mental health services available to students, including drop-in chat spaces and group counseling services, which occur once...
Lessons Learned: How seasickness taught me to fail
Content warning: This article discusses suicide. I wouldn’t make a good sailor. Boy scout outings and biology labs have washed me out to sea a...
Emmons Wellness Center offers new Health Promotion Program
The Emmons Wellness Center is offering a new mental health service to Occidental students starting this semester, according to an Aug. 31 email from...
Everyone’s talking about mental health on campuses and ‘Oxy is no...
Three-quarters of college students reported moderate or severe distress between 2020 and 2021. Sixty percent of students during that same period met the criteria for...
Opinion: Going deeper than ‘how are you?’ with youth mental health
Content warning: This article mentions statistics of suicide. “You stretch your arms when clothes come, and you open your mouth when food is delivered,” is...
The Hidden Opponent advocates for the wellbeing of student-athletes
Between practicing for both swimming and water polo, completing her biochemistry major and hanging out with friends, Sam Edgington (sophomore) said it can be...
LOA self-defense workshops empower participants: ‘Giving people a sense of agency’
Occidental’s Love Ourselves Anonymous (LOA) club invited self-defense instructors Michelle Pereira-Henriquez and Magdalena Díaz from Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) Global to campus to teach a...
Isabel Martinez’s artwork shows ‘importance of honoring our truth’ at Avenue...
Adorning the walls of the Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park are paintings that feature insects, animals and women in vivid colors, with mediums ranging from...
Students strengthened connections, prioritized mental health during time away from Occidental
Many students chose to take a gap year or gap semester in Fall 2020, resulting in a 3.6 percent drop in undergraduate enrollment in...