Suicide Awareness Week

This week is Suicide Awareness Week (in addition to it being Hunger & Homelessness Week and what seems like 5 million other things). As I'm sure all of us know, college can be one of the most stressful periods in our life. Even though we've got all the great things going for us, there's plenty of difficulties mixed in as well. It's great to find classes that open up new worlds and concepts for us, but piles of work and pressure are always part of the package. It's the same with friends and activities. I've made the best friends of my life in college, but it's the times when things aren't going well that are really draining--even if they end up strengthening my friendships in the end. 

With these difficulties, it's no wonder that depression and thoughts of suicide are common amongst college students. Because of that, I thought it was important to let you all know about Suicide Awareness Week, and what's going on for that. Most of the week's events are already over, but there are two left:

11/19 10a-2p: National Depression Screening Day @ Stamp Food Court 'B'

11/21 1p-2:30p: National Survivors of Suicide Day @ Stamp Edgar Allan Poe Room

I highly encourage you to stop by one of these events tomorrow or Saturday. Check out the facebook event for them here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151203189024&ref=mf, and the Health Center's website which lists info for S.A.H.E.T: Suicide Awareness Health Education and Training at http://www.health.umd.edu/programs/peereducation.html. 

And as always, if you need someone to talk to, call the Help Center at 301-314-HELP. 

-Nehama