Mental health days are valid The amount of people living with mental health issues rises; it's time to accomodate them

hen someone is sick with a cold, they call out from work or email their professors in advance concerning their upcoming absence.

It’s widely acceptable to take a couple days off to recuperate one’s physical health, but why is it unacceptable to take a couple days off to care for one's mental health?

Colleges should accept when students and faculty take mental health days off as a valid absence, because it’s a justifiable reason.

According to a survey published in 2019 by the American Psychological Association, depressive episodes among young adults aged 18-25 increased by 63% between 2009 and 2017.

In that same study, an increase in “suicidal ideation, plans, attempts and deaths by suicide” increased by 71% between 2009 and 2017 within young adults of the same age range.

With the staggering rise of people experiencing mental health issues, it’s imperative to accommodate college students because they are the demographic that’s being highly affected.

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To have a healthy life, people need a balance between work and downtime, but college students tend to prioritize work.

Professors oftentime tell students that for each hour a class lasts, they should study the material for two to three hours on their own.

However, work doesn’t end after leaving a campus because many college students are also employed at paying jobs.

According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics published in 2019, 43% of undergraduate full-time students worked while 81% of part-time students worked in 2017.

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F rom getting an extra hour of sleep to being able to get home before the sun goes down, there’s definitely more to celebrate than to frown upon when it comes to daylight saving.

One of those perks in particular is the increased safety on campus due to the longer daylight hours.

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It’s natural that students become mentally and physically tired, but it’s outlandish to expect students to function after Some days it seems impossible to get out of bed. By taking the day off to practice self-care, people get the opportunity to overcome that negative headspace. Although some could take advantage of allowing mental health days off, in the long run it actually benefits students who need it. stigmas of mental healtwh. This way they understand how to properly respond to students whose mental health can affect how they perform

Educational institutions should follow the lead of states such as Utah.

The state passed a legislative bill in 2018 authorizing students to take mental health days off similarly to how they would take off a sick day.

When someone gets a cold, they stay at home to recover by resting, taking medicine and eating chicken noodle soup.

When someone needs to take a mental health break, they can heal through creative outlets, explore during a minivacation or anything else that helps them recharge.

By allowing mental health days off, students and faculty have one less thing to stress about.

Professors should take a mandatory seminar in the beginning of the fall semester that educates them on the stigmas of mental health. This way they understand how to properly respond to students whose mental health can affect how they perform in Educational institutions should follow the lead of states such as Utah.

The state passed a legislative bill in 2018 authorizing students to take mental health days off similarly to how they would take off a sick day.

When someone gets a cold, they stay at home to recover by resting, taking medicine and eating chicken

BY PETER VILLAFANE

“Don't cough, or people will think you have it.”

My mother thinks people will assume I have COVID-19 just because I'm Asian.

It’s no coincidence that warnings like “don’t wear your headphones in your ears”, “keep your eyes off your phone and stay alert,” and “keep your car keys ready and in-hand while you walk” are more often said to our loved ones at night than during the day.

According to Security Magazine, ‘Larceny/theft, drug violations, simple assaults, and property crimes were slightly more likely to happen while the sun was out, but more violent crimes such as driving while impaired, murder, rape/sexual assault, and robbery were are frequently reported at night.’

The reasons for students leaving campus late can vary. Some classes are dismissed late, some students stay late to study, eat, relax or get off work if they happen to have a job on campus.

Regardless of the reason for being at school after hours, it seems that once the sun goes down, and the masses begin to clear out, our guards must go up and our suspicions for our surroundings tend to arise as we make our way to our cars to leave for the night.

In 2014, according to an article written on ABC7, a Pierce student reported being attacked on campus by the person she called to help charge her car battery between 8:00pm and 8:30pm!

The longer the sun stays out, the safer it’s proven to be on campus at later times. The clocks giving us a couple more hours of daytime to handle our business and get home safely is a good thing.

Instead, take the risk and support those that colleges are meant to serve.

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When someone needs to take a mental health break, they can heal through creative outlets, explore during a mini-vacation or anything else that helps them recharge.

By allowing mental health days off, students and faculty have one less thing to stress about.

But I can't look any less Asian. The problem isn't with my facial features, it's with the racists using COVID-19 as an excuse to discriminate against Asian people.

The virus originated from the city of Wuhan in China, but that doesn't mean anyone who looks vaguely Asian is infected.

The news coverage surrounding COVID-19 and the panicked global response to it have brought out the worst in people. Racist attacks against the Asian community have increased since information about the disease has spread, according to CNN.

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Daylight saving poses a number of problems to health, sleep patterns and students.

A study in 2014 found that the number of heart attacks the first week of daylight saving jumps by 25%, according to Health.com. In that same study, the end of daylight saving was followed by a 21% drop in heart attacks. It’s likely that a rise in heart attacks and daylight saving are connected because of disrupted sleep patterns and stress, especially for those with pre-existing heart conditions.

The Journal of Applied Psychology has found a higher rate of “cyberloafing” when daylight Cyberloafing is especially present in the workplace, where employees struggling to adjust to daylight saving time often use the internet at work for personal matters instead of doing work. An increase in entertainmentbased internet searches also rises at night, resulting in a harder time trying to get to sleep. Science Daily found that sleep

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Students attending classes in the mornings are also likely to see their academics suffer because of shorter attention spans, because of disrupted sleep schedules. With sleep patterns disrupted, focus also is harder to maintain and it becomes harder to perform at full potential because of lack of energy, motivation, and sleep.

Daylight saving isn’t practiced by all 50 states either. Hawaii and Arizona are the two states that don’t follow the rest of the country in practicing Daylight Savings and perhaps the rest of the country should follow their example. With Spring on the horizon, daylight saving should be reconsidered to help physical and mental health, students’ academic performance and safety and sleep patterns.

A viral video on Twitter depicted a woman covering her face as soon as she saw an Asian passenger enter the train. Another viral video showed a man accusing an Asian person of having the virus on the New York City subway. And another showed an Asian woman getting attacked for wearing a face mask.

The New York Times posted a story about COVID-19 and accompanied it with a photo of a Chinese man riding the Hong Kong subway while wearing a mask. The man had nothing to do with the story. He just happened to be both Asian-looking and wearing a mask.

Chinese people especially are being targeted. Chinese restaurants are losing customers, reported CNN. Some people are even avoiding ordering goods from China.

My family is no exception to the prejudice, and we’re not even Chinese. My sister-in-law, a nurse, has advised us against wearing masks because she doesn't want people to think we're sick.

There is never an excuse for racism, and a deadly virus definitely isn’t one. I don’t want to be scared of being attacked for coughing, or for looking the way I do.

I’m not sick. I’m just Asian.

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