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Navigating Mental Health During the Holidays and Winter Season

Navigating Mental Health During the Holidays and Winter Season

, Library Resources
The holiday season and winter months can be a challenging time for people. While this period often brings joy and celebration, it is also the coldest and darkest time of the year, and it can lead to feelings of stress, loneliness, and depression. Here are some tips to help you maintain your mental health during this time. 1. Acknowledge Your Feelings It’s okay to feel a mix of emotions during the holidays. Whether you’re feeling homesick, overwhelmed by academic pressures, or just not in the festive spirit, acknowledging your feelings is the first step towards managing them. 2. Stay Connected Isolation can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and depression. Try to stay connected with friends and family, even if it’s through … Continued
Mental Health Awareness Month

Mental Health Awareness Month

, Jesse Whitton, Library Resources, outreach
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and although society is becoming more open to discussing mental health, it can still be challenging to know where to begin when it comes to taking care of your own mental well-being. Several national groups and government organizations provide resources for all your mental health needs. Mental Health America offers a downloadable toolkit with information, posters, and DIY tools. The National Institutes of Health explores topics such as anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, and suicide prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides direct support for those suffering from mental illness. Online counseling sessions are available for all students via Timely Care. IU East students also have access to Chat with a … Continued
Mental Health – free resources and a free t-shirt

Mental Health – free resources and a free t-shirt

, , Library Resources, outreach
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the theme this year is ‘Look Around, Look Within’.  ‘Around’ includes the environment – neighborhood, social circle, family, and workplace – while ‘within’ refers both to introspection, and to a candid appraisal of one’s personal risk factors like genetic makeup.  These influences work together to help or hurt one’s mental well-being.  About one in five Americans deals with mental health issues at some point in their life, and the last few years have offered unprecedented stress on all segments of society, exacerbating the problem. Many national groups and government organizations are offering resources, including Mental Health America with a downloadable ‘toolkit’ of information, posters, and DIY tools; the National Institutes of Health which … Continued
Mental Health Awareness Month

Mental Health Awareness Month

, Library Resources, Matt Dilworth
  May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the theme this year is ‘Mind Your Health’, a look at how mental health works as a component of overall health.  The mind and the body influence each other, and caring for one benefits the other.  That’s a principle that education has long espoused – physical education classes and athletics programs work side-by-side with courses dedicated to science and math and literature and psychology and foreign language, because nurturing the mind benefits the body, and caring for the body helps cultivate an agile mind. Your IU East Campus Library has lots of resources to help you learn about these topics – from the new fifth edition of the American Psychological Association’s mental … Continued
Mental Health Resources

Mental Health Resources

, , Library Resources, Matt Dilworth
October 6th – 12th is National Mental Health Awareness Week, a yearly effort by the National Alliance on Mental Illness to foster discussion and understanding for people with mental illnesses.  They focus on grassroots efforts and community-level events to spread awareness, and the local NAMI organization has events planned for Richmond. But what if you want to dig deeper?  As always, the library is a great source for high-quality information.  From major databases like ProQuest Psychology and PsycInfo to the National Institute of Health’s PubMed Central, we have a staggering number of articles on mental illness and health.  And if books are more your thing, databases like eBrary contain dozens of titles like: Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness: A … Continued