Let’s talk about mental health. Better yet, let’s talk about mental un-health. Because it needs to be talked about, out in the open in this campus, right now. Because the phrase “mentally ill” is too often whispered in shame or scorn or fear. Or ridiculed loudly. Or not even said at all.
And because mental unhealth is real and prevalent. If it’s seasonal, clinical, situational, a result of brain chemistry or life struggle, or it's just a phase—it is here on our campus, in our classrooms and in our dorm rooms. It’s there in our kitchens and our closets—it’s there on our bookshelves and in our coffee cups. It hangs out at parties, and it studies in the library. It sits at our desks and it sleeps in our beds and it ain’t no elephant in the room—It’s the big ass blue whale.
And it needs to be brought out of the shadows and into the light. Over and over and over again.
