National Alliance on Mental Illness

Students denied request to start mental health peer support groups

February 28, 2014

After about five months of planning, drafting and updating proposals to abide with administrative requests, two students were denied the opportunity to start a mental health support group on campus. Bienen...

In Focus: Improving mental health resources at Northwestern

November 4, 2013

Photo Illustration by Kelsey Ott/Daily Senior Staffer Emily Fagan is not shy talking about mental health. Last year, students began coming to her almost weekly to discuss their struggles with mental...

Kazel: Peer discussion groups can show Northwestern students they’re not alone

May 9, 2013

There's a scene in the 2000 movie “Almost Famous.” Adolescent music nerd William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is talking by phone with his new friend and mentor, rock critic Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour...

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