Make The Most Of Panther Camp This Spring
Dominique Kent/Staff Writer Team building. Trust exercises. Communal bathrooms. Are you frightened yet? I was. These were the building blocks of my experience at Panther…
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School, work and tension: how students cope with daily stress
The quintessential student attends class, participates in school events, is part of organizations and, on top of that, lives away from campus grounds. With these extracurricular activities, it gives students less time to relax and more to add on their to-do list.
There are a variety of ways to handle mental health
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety disorders are one of the most common illnesses in the United States. It affects approximately 18 percent of the population nationwide and it costs the US more than $42 billion a year for treatment.
Editorial: It’s okay to seek mental health help
It takes work to be healthy, especially when happiness is, for better or worse, not the default human condition. It’s okay to be unhappy, what really matters, though, is the action one takes to feel well.
Give mental illness the seriousness any other disease is given.
Mental illness is at times not taken as seriously as disease that display more obvious physical symptoms.
CAPS Office identifies stressors, open to students
Students often struggle with the balance of class, work, applications, family and sometimes it can all be too much during the semester.
Many students reach out to the University office of Counseling and Psychological Services when they feel overwhelmed with any type of a variety of issues.
According to the CAPS annual report of 2012 – 2013, students seek counseling due to five main reasons, the most prevalent of which is anxiety.
Slowly, unsurely: Florida’s economy lags behind
With the highest long-term unemployment rates, Florida’s Great Recession recovery is slow– emphasis on slow.
