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SJU Student Shares Story on Stigmas

Senior, English major with a French minor. This student is involved in various departments on campus, serving as a tutor at the Writing Center, a musician in the Jazz Band, and a published poet in the Crimson and Gray. Here she discusses a lack of belonging due to a stigma on mental health. More videos like this one on the topic of Belonging can be found by going to https://belonging.starttalkingsju.com/. This video was created in collaboration with the person depicted and/or represented in a story read by another. All persons reviewed and signed consent forms granting permission to share this story online. A complete transcript of the video reads as follows: “For me, it’s been a lot about identity, my sophomore year, I lost a lot of friends, there was a lot of change and I had to learn to be okay by myself, which was difficult to understand. So I had to reevaluate what belonging was, I had to make it something that was previously external to something internal. I also started questioning a lot about myself, my sexuality, one being that, and I found a sense of belonging in something greater than myself. There was another event that happened that I can’t really talk about, because it involves people who are not me, but there was an involved, something where Title IX was involved, just say that. So that threw me for a loop, it was incredibly hindering, but I reached out to people and people helped me, and it was, also, like a time of growth. It’s going to be hard, there will be days where you do not like yourself, but, and I reminded this person, I care about you, and if there’s one person on this earth that cares about you, it deserves enough to be here, which is what I needed to hear. There are so many days where you think you’re just a number in a faceless pile of humanity, you know what I mean, and you need to be reminded that you have a name, you have a story, and that it matters.”