Kent community members and students filled Risman Plaza Sunday afternoon to raise awareness for suicide prevention.The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) hosted the Out of the Darkness Walk...
Translation major Carlos Usnay places a “brick” on the Oppression Wall in the student center on April 24, 2017. The wall remained standing for all of last week for students to add colored bricks representing...
On the night of the election last November, Kent State junior political science major Haley Foster went to sleep before the results were broadcast across the nation, with the states on the map turning...
I was 5 years old when I first thought the world would be a better place without me. I was 5 years old when I decided that I did not want to be me anymore. I didn’t want the burden of being inside my...
For some people, the mental health statistics of the LGBTQ community is a number they’ve heard in passing.For others, it’s an ingrained fact within their lives.LBGTQ Mental Health from KentWired.com...
“Having anxiety makes you feel nervous all the time. It’s that dark presence that’s always following you that seems to never go away. Sometimes, when my friends want me to go out with them, I’m...
“Having anxiety makes you feel different than everyone else, knowing that it’s always there. It’s confusing how people just go through life being okay with the world. How can you go through life...
“It baffles me that anyone who doesn’t suffer from depression, or any other mental illness perceives that the thing that convinces me I want to die as such a romantic ideal. People use my mental as...
“The one thing us depressed people have in common is the common feeling of being broken. Our soul, our body, and our mind feel torn. Used. Ripped into pieces that aren’t and can’t be put back together...
Over the past decade, taxpayers across Summit County have shouldered an increasing share of mental health funding while state dollars have sharply declined.Summit’s Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental...
Editor’s note: Samantha Ickes is the editor of The Burr, one of Kent State’s student magazines. See some of the magazine’s content here.More than 40 percent of college students experience anxiety...
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Spring 2017 edition of The Burr, one of Kent State’s student magazines. See some of the magazine’s content here.I can still remember what led up to...
