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...
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...
“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...
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...
Kent State is doubling the number of psychologists at University Psychological Services (UPS) to meet a demand that has increased by more than 450 students in the last six years.One new psychologist was...
Since September 2013, there have been 33,332,285 texts into the national Crisis Text Line at 741-741. Texts about anxiety, depression, family issues, self-harming, and suicide are answered any time of...
Social media usage appears to be a factor in the mental health of 18-to 24-year-old adults and is increasingly becoming a part of the equation for the rate at which they develop disorders and seek out...
