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Researching your anxiety? According to FIU researchers, those internet searches could be making worse

Alba Rosa | Opinion Director Students curious enough to research their mental health concerns often turn to social media for answers. But a recent FIU study is sounding the alarm to this ever increasing form of self-medication.  Conducted by Center for Children and Family Professor Jeremy W. Pettit and graduate student Rebecca Wolenski, the study […]

Mourning While Social Distancing: A Chaotic Mixture

Brian Hurtado/Guest Columnist New Year’s Day. That’s when I got the call to come back home. My father had gone overseas while I visited my family for the holidays. As soon as I saw him at the airport, I knew I was in for a rough few months.  Every day after was a grueling mix […]

Graduate students struggling to get by in Miami on University stipend

A growing number of FIU graduate students are struggling to focus on their classes, buy groceries and pay bills with the stipends paid to them by the University’s Graduate School, which have not been raised in over 10 years. The struggle has led students to living in crowded houses, sacrificing their mental and physical health and even students leaving the University because they cannot afford to stay in school. Andres Gil, the dean of UGS, has received around 200 letters describing anxiety, depression, homelessness and unaffordable doctors visits by upset graduate students.

A New Year is a chance to beat depression

Ossman Darwiche/ Staff Writer We the people of Earth, were meant to be so much more, if we but free ourselves from our mental prison! And you who read my words, and I who write them, have practically limitless potential to create the worlds we would like to see! That’s right my friends, if we […]

Exposure to suicide and depression from the media can be explained

By Megan Mosquera Communication is extremely important in understanding depression. It’s a sentiment that is very difficult to understand for most people, parents included. Because of this, a workshop series was created in order to provide resources to parents who are in need of a way to connect with their children. “The workshop series are for […]

The death of SHINee’s Jonghyun forces a spotlight on mental health

Maytinee Kramer/ Opinion Director Even to this day I still cannot believe that Jonghyun is no longer with us. I remember reading the headlines and thought to myself, “this is a joke…April Fools’ came early…” Kim Jong-hyun, known by his stage name Jonghyun and a member of popular South Korean boyband SHINee, died Monday, Dec. […]

CAPS can help students with depression

Every year, incoming college students are warned about depression. Though they are never told the different ways there are to deal with it and feel better.

Texting can be a tool to combat depression

Through smartphones, computers, and gaming consoles, people are permanently plugged into a network of social devices, creating a culture of “connected cocooning.” However, studies have shown that with the heavy rise of technology usage comes negative effects on sleep quality, stress levels and general mental health.

Student Thoughts: Meditation and exercise to combat depression

College is an exciting time, but it can also be very challenging and demanding, so Panthers are bound to feel stressed throughout the semester. Stress can be good as it keeps you alert, motivated and primed to respond to danger. However, too much stress or chronic stress could lead to depression.

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.

Student Thoughts: Smartphones may be able to detect depression

If you look around, you may notice that nearly everyone is face-down staring at a screen. Smartphones today can track fitness, sleep and nutrition, and now they may be able to track and warn their users of depression too.
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