Editor's Note: This piece is from the Openings print issue, published summer 2022.
Prevalence of depression and anxiety increased 25% globally the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
For the month of September, the University of Utah is honoring Suicide Prevention Awareness Month to remind students of the many resources the U provides for those who are experiencing mental...
First responders are overworked and at-risk during this pandemic. Their work is incredibly demanding and they are at high risk for developing certain mental disorders. And as the pandemic rages...
By Sydney Kincart, Print Chief, Opinion Writer
• January 19, 2022
Once again, we find ourselves starting another semester in the thick of the pandemic. Utah has upwards of 700,000 COVID-19 cases, which is significantly more than this time last year. The state...
During a time when the focus has been on the country’s physical health, mental health may be falling by the wayside. In a February 2021 article the Salt Lake Tribune said 640 Utahns...
A 2019 report from the Utah System of Higher Education showed that many college students sometimes felt lonely and hopeless and nearly 15% of respondents said they had felt suicidal...
The emotional and mental effects of being individuals forced into isolation by a global pandemic, a seemingly doomed environmental climate, and a government divided in half regarding...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, isolation became a necessity to maintain public health and safety. This gave rise to another sort of pandemic: one that affects the mind, rather than the body.
Isolation...
