
By Hannah Lockhart I feel like we as humans and society all struggle with mental health. Mental health hasbecome more prevalent in today’s time. We are not as stigmatized or ashamed of […]
By Hannah Lockhart I feel like we as humans and society all struggle with mental health. Mental health hasbecome more prevalent in today’s time. We are not as stigmatized or ashamed of […]
By Broden Pickette This Happened to Me Growing up, I was very involved in sports, so much so that it became my biggestpersonality trait. Playing sports for a lot of athletes makes […]
By Elizabeth Matyus I couldn’t eat, not that I wouldn’t or didn’t want to, but I physically wasn’t ableto. I woke up one morning in July after my freshman year of college, […]
By Taylor Smith “This happened to me”I play college softball, and we had to run a mile on the first day of fall ball practice. It wasraining and super wet outside. I […]
by Mikaela Fairbanks I am scrolling through Instagram and I see so many beautiful girls with bodies I dream ofhaving. I scroll through Tiktok and it’s the same. Endless videos and photos […]
by Carter Harper Being transgender means to identify with a gender that does not correlate with the genderassociated with a person’s sex at birth. (1) As a transgender man, I experience what […]
by Lexie Reid I am an 18-year-old college student and athlete, and I have suffered from mental health issues since I was inhigh school. I specifically have had trouble with anxiety and […]
By Ariella Stepleman Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or temptations, the national suicide lifeline is 1-800-273-8255 March 16th was the day that I finally gave […]
by Atoosa Torabizadeh I am very emotionally attached to my family. I was born in a family where all the attentions wereon me because I was the only child and the only […]
by Scott Choi I played many different sports in high school. I played basketball, baseball, and I alsowent skiing quite often. These sports really helped me to become mentally and physicallyhealthy throughout […]
by Abby Rogerson I am a 19-year-old college student pursuing a degree in music therapy at ShenandoahUniversity in Winchester, VA. Prior to even the appearance of COVID, I was struggling with my […]
by Kaitlynn Davie When you are 18 years old, everything you have known and are comfortable with,changes in an instant. You move off to college, hoping for a wonderful new experience,but change […]
by Kyndall Chandler I floated on my back in my friend’s pool, waiting for the rest of them to get theirswimsuits on and get in. A generic pop song played from a […]
by Grady Dillon Alone. That’s how I felt during my time quarantined with COVID-19 at the beginning ofSeptember 2021. I also felt sluggish, lazy, tired, unmotivated, and generally unhealthy. However,none of those […]
by Annika Murphy At the start of October 2019, I started dating someone. This started off as a normal,healthy relationship, but then around December 2019, it progressed into something thatwas detrimental to […]
by Morgan Wuenschel I am not weak-minded. People have told me many times in many different ways that I am weak-minded because of stigmas. I’m not; I am the athlete that is […]