Nineteen Fifty-Six Vol.4 Issue 2

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Carrigan Collins Healing Through Helping Hands 50
The Black community has constantly been exposed to loss and mourning from years of oppression, racism and the fight for civil rights. However, knowing loss doesn’t make confronting grief any easier. Jennifer Turner, assistant director of the UA Counseling Center, said within the Black community people often take adversity in stride and move on. However, with grief, there’s a space for emotion to be more fully expressed because doing so helps people work through it. Turner said that though grief is natural, it is complicated, and people may avoid talking about it for fear of becoming a burden to others or neglecting their responsibilities. “Everyone has a different process of grieving,” said DeCarlos Caple, Jr., a junior majoring in computer engineering and the treasurer of My Mind Matters, a student organization for addressing mental health for minority students. Grief often consists of physiological distress, confusion, anxiety about the future, and general separation anxiety, according to the American Psychology Association. At its worst, grief can even bring about further mental distress and become life threatening. Yet, with the responsibilities and expectations of college students, sometimes it seems like grieving properly is a luxury. “Students always have tests. They have papers, assignments, scholarships to maintain and to really be able to allow someone to fully process something as traumatic as grief or loss, we should be able to provide them that space,” said Caitlin Geary, a staff psychologist at the UA Counseling Center. “The reality is, with COVID, that with just living life, with the way that our world is, students are experiencing grief almost all the time, in one way or another, and we don’t talk about it enough.” Geary said it’s also an issue when many students don’t have access to resources that would let them take time off to address their concerns and receive support. The University offers several ways for students to seek mental health services, such as The Counseling Center, which offers individual therapy to same-day appointments, as well as an on-call counselor for crises and mental health emergencies outside of operation hours. The Counseling Center also provides support groups for various distinctions depending on one’s identity, like “True Colors: A Support Group for African American Identified Students and Blacks in the Diaspora as they Cope with a Time of Growth and Change,” according to its website. However, with a fast pace and buzzing campus, it becomes easy to lose oneself in the routine and neglect the need to assess mental health. When grief is in the picture, you end up with many students who hurt themselves in the long run to prioritize their academic success. 51
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