Channel Kindness

Almost a year ago, I wrote a piece called “20 lessons from the psychiatric unit.”

These lessons were about happiness, connection, kindness, and healing, all found in the most unexpected place. That piece was about surviving during a very
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After last year’s Australian under-16 social media ban, upwards of

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As an undergraduate student working in a clinical research lab studying adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, I code qualitative data, review literature, and contribute to manuscripts. By working in a lab that aims to understand what these behaviors look like and what drives them, I’ve learned a great deal in investigating how we can intervene earlier and more eff...

The first thing I noticed wasn’t my mood, but my capacity for open and honest reflection. A few years after being diagnosed with bipolar II disorder and generalized anxiety disorder during college on my 21st birthday, I caught myself staring into the mirror longer than usual. My mental health was finally becoming more stable, as things with treatment were finally clicking int...