Help and hope are available. Over the last 14 years, Active Minds has empowered students facing mental health struggles to share their stories to let others know they’re not alone and to spread that message: help and hope are available. During my time as a member of the Active Minds team, I’ve come to recognize…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Mental Health in the African American Community
Jordan Burnham is a member of the Active Minds Speakers Bureau. Bring him to your campus to speak about mental health! On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we all get a chance to step back, acknowledge, and appreciate the work and sacrifice put forth to make progress for equality in America. Being the leader and…
Mental Health Weekly News Wrap Up: July 29
Mental Health: Let’s Talk About Culture, Race And Ethnicity As Minority Mental Health Month winds down, it is important to take a step back and remind ourselves that mental illness affects us all. Minority communities are less likely to receive mental health care than whites. Minorities have a long list of disparities when it comes to…
On Being Black and Dealing with Mental Health
The first time I visited a therapist, I was a new boarding student dealing with depression and suicidal ideation. I had an incident and told another student. Because of that, I was required to sit with the school therapist for an hour and talk about what I was going through. I remember for the first…
Conversations About Multiculturalism and Mental Health: My Personal Experience
I come from a family of many cultures, languages, religions, and places. As a Chinese American and Ashkenazi Jew with Cherokee and Choctaw roots, I have descended from a lineage of survivors. My grandparents crossed oceans and deserts, climbed over fences and walls, all in pursuit of a better life for their families. They have…
Mental Health and Complex Identities Within the Muslim Community
Muslims are often in the news, usually as either perpetrators or victims of terrorism or as part of political discussions on immigration. The media often portrays Muslims as a racialized, monolithic “other,” though American Muslims are one of the most racially diverse religious groups in the U.S. Unfortunately, skewed media portrayal, as well as the…
Mental Health on HBCU Campuses
Historically Black Colleges/Universities have and hopefully will continue to be a pinnacle in the black community. These sources of education and black empowerment across the United States have done so much for the growth and betterment of African-Americans nationwide. However, there is always room for growth; and one of those areas that are in need…
Tackling Mental Health Stigma in the Chinese-American Community
Twelve years ago, Iris Chang, the Chinese American writer of The Rape of Nanking, took her life. Her death stunned not only the Chinese community but the Asian American community as a whole. Iris’ death became an alert: Asian Americans are not immune to mental health struggles. As the “model minority” with the highest income…
Why #BlackLivesMatter and Mental Health Go Hand-In-Hand
By Candace Daniels and Maggie Bertram Alton Sterling and Philando Castile died at the hands of police last week. It’s been reported that at least one of them was legally carrying a gun at the time he was shot. They were stopped for relatively minor infractions. They were doing things that I (Maggie) see White…
Mental Health News Round-Up: July 8
U.S. House of Representatives Passes Mental Health Bill On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would seek mental health reform across the country. Among other things, the bill would implement direct funding for mental health illnesses, reorder the structure of the federal agency of mental health, and develop requirements for private…