HP 412 Writing Assignment 2-Edwin

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Edwin Zheng HP 412 Professor Anne Sullivan-Soydan 12/7/2023 HP 412 Writing Assignment 2 BU is a diverse and ever-changing community that has become my second home during these last 3 years. The BU community offers a lot of opportunities and resources that support my mental health. Firstly, according to the World Health Organization, mental health is determined by socioeconomic, biological, and environmental factors. I feel that the community around me is incredibly supportive in terms of the environmental factors. The faculty and students are generally always friendly and everyone wants to make college a positive experience and be productive throughout their 4 years. BU has many organizations that support mental health like BU Wellbeing and Active Minds which aim to educate and provide valuable behavioral; health resources to students across campus. As a physical therapy major, I am also part of the Sargent community as well as the DPT community. We are a smaller college in BU but in my opinion, it makes learning and interactions more personal and allows me to feel more connected with others. This community has allowed me to foster healthy relationships and friendships with other bright individuals that push me to be a better version of myself and I hope I do the same, like a symbiotic relationship. The BU community is diverse and there are so many ways to engage your interests with other people. For me personally, I love swimming and playing volleyball with my friends every week during open gym and then getting dinner afterward. Being able to find others with similar interests allows me to have an outlet for my stress and also develop my hobbies/skills. For instance, this semester I started living in an apartment and I have been cooking for a lot of my friends! Some factors that detract from good overall mental wellness include the main stressors of college which is academics. Growing up in an Asian household, there were more traditional

Edwin Zheng HP 412 Professor Anne Sullivan-Soydan 12/7/2023 thoughts about success and my parents pushed my sister and me academically. The same continued in college but the stress to do well in school was mainly self-mediated and I just wanted to do the best I could. Of course, finals are always stressful for everyone and this stress can elevate our stress hormones such as cortisol and BU is a rigorous school. I personally never dealt with discrimination or racism here at BU but I have some friends who tell me that they have been treated unfairly due to their race on campus so that could also be another factor that causes mental health to decline. Another main factor that affects my mental health is the financial burden of college and always worrying about how expensive college is. As we talked about in class and with Dr. Hutchinson’s lecture, mental health has a negative stigma and a lot of college students are fearful of mental disorders and choose not to speak up. Social media and societal norms have caused mental health to be neglected at times and this only exacerbates the damage and negative impact it can have on students. Dr. Hutchinson even gave an example of how schools were discriminatory toward students with mental health issues as Yale required students who took a leave of absence due to mental health to reapply or else they weren’t allowed to return. Dr. Hutchinson also touched on how we should use person-first language, to make the person with the disability still feel like a part of a community and not to diminish any of their accomplishments. Overall, while I feel like BU can be a stressful environment, there are many resources and classes like HP 412 that educate us on what mental health is and how we can improve it for ourselves and others around us. To promote better mental health we need to speak up and not be complicit when we or someone we love is dealing with a disorder. Furthermore, Dr. Hutchinson described recovery to be multi-faceted as there are many ways we can influence recovery which includes work, peer

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