Soon after moving to Utah this summer, Rainbow Sky Buck ended up at the hospital with a painful ear infection. There, Buck learned she no longer had access to the free health coverage she had in California as a former foster youth. To pay for the care, Buck emptied out her bank account and borrowed …
Category Archives: Mental Illness
You Should Be Watching You’re the Worst
By Terri Schwartz The television landscape is currently an embarrassment of riches, with more quality TV on the air (and streaming!) than any person can reasonably keep up with. That’s why it might have been easy to miss You’re the Worst, an ensemble comedy set in Los Angeles that premiered on FX la …
TEDx seeks to engage Georgetown community on risk taking through new format
TEDx Georgetown On Oct. 24, the fifth annual installment of TEDxGeorgetown will be held in Gaston Hall, consisting of talks by Georgetown students, faculty, and experts in a variety of fields about the challenge of being “Risk Takers,” as part of the TED’s initiative to bring their forum for ideas t …
Ecological Systems Analysis
Discussion: “Revisiting the Virginia Tech shootings: An Ecological Systems Analysis” Alexis Bird & Rebecca Graham Instructions: Work with your assigned partner to complete the worksheet below. Post your final worksheet on one partner’s blog, with both names, for class comments and discussion. 1. Wor …
sometimes i wonder …
I know that bringing awareness to ending the stigma of mental illness is one of the best things we get to do with the platform we’ve got up on that stage. But there are nights when I hear about fans of ours who have committed suicide that I wonder if we’re doing the right thing in talking about it. …