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But the campus and its gatekeepers of all colors still seem to be failing to understand that no amount of special grants for student-parents will make the campus more diverse if the culture around supporting parenting people does not also shift in practice.

Whether it be due to stress, anxiety or unknown reasons, we’ve all been there, lying in bed for hours, hoping to fall asleep. Here’s how to sleep well.

Local and national trends indicate that the mental health epidemic is far from over. UC Berkeley recently announced a switch to a new health insurance provider with a less-than-stellar reputation for reimbursing mental health-related care.

At nearly every moment in my life, music has been the water and the sunlight and the rich soil that sprouted this anxiety-riddled mess of a songstress. Music wove itself into my life, secured by all these little lessons I taught myself.

A recent tweet criticizing a UC Berkeley electrical engineering and computer sciences professor’s proposed 80-hour weekly academic workload has outraged many community members. But this incident is symptomatic of a larger issue: the toxic work culture on this campus. UC Berkeley is often stereotyped as the “workaholic” UC campus, and it’s time for the community to acknowledge how harmful that title really is.

My semester of constant knitting taught me a lot about myself but most of all, it inspired me to look for more creative solutions to my everyday mental health issues.

Mental illness, regardless of how hard my friend fought back, made her feel like she wasn’t in the driver’s seat of her own mind.

The word “focus” has haunted me for my whole life. Just as I write this article, I have had to refocus my thoughts at least 10 times. Every distraction poses a new challenge.

You figure there must have been some terrible mistake. Maybe you wandered into the wrong class or came at the wrong time. You cry out, but no one can hear you. You have entered the Impostor Syndrome Zone.