Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson joined the Boston University Center for Psychological Rehabilitation and CTE Research Center at WBUR City Space Oct. 9 to discuss his mental health journey after suffering repeated head trauma.
Boston University’s George Sherman Union bustled Thursday afternoon as students, staff and campus partners gathered to recognize World Mental Health Day.
When former President Joe Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy held office, he made a daring proposal: Social media should be the next product slapped with a compulsory warning.
“The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times in June.
If you are feeling the weight of uncertainty pressing you down, just remember that you will sail through. The job search is brutal. The atmosphere is tense. But you can, and you will, find your way through it.
These feelings of burnout and heightened pressure to keep pushing can translate to the workplace and labor markets. In this sense, burnout can be viewed as a market failure with a negative externality.
Mental health also looks different for everyone. Sometimes, your struggle could come off as being dismissive or moody to outsiders who aren’t aware of your situation. Being as open as you’re comfortable will only allow your relationships, romantic and not, to prosper.
After three weeks on crutches due to a sports injury that ended in hip surgery, I suddenly found myself facing everyday challenges that made the walkable city of Boston, unwalkable. I wanted to share some advice for anyone else who finds themselves on crutches in the middle of the semester.
Fans paid tribute to British singer Liam Payne this weekend by creating a memorial in the Boston Common following the former One Direction member’s sudden death.
Question 4, a ballot measure seeking to legalize and regulate the use of psychedelic substances, has sparked statewide discourse among Massachusetts voters as they prepare to cast their ballots on Nov. 5.
Anyone who has met me generally notices the unorthodox set of different hobbies that I’ve collected over the years. As a first-generation college student, I wasn’t exactly sure how to navigate the changes of life. The idea of classes, bills and adult life in general all hit me at once. I was thrown into the deep end with no way out and no life vest. Then, during spring break, I started learning about how to become a parent to a fish.
You might assume the people walking around campus when the majority are home stayed in Boston because of travel issues or the unwillingness to spend upwards of $100 for a trip that lasts less than a week. But no one considers the small group that just doesn’t want to go home or doesn’t even have a home to return to.
