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| Food and Weight Concerns | |
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It is important to realize that it takes time to adjust to university life. Students leave behind the aspect
of their lives that are most familiar to them: their families, friends, community, home, their own room, and the many belongings
that may have helped them to feel secure. Unfortunately, some students bring with them their eating disorders. Suddenly Semestered: Food and Weight Concerns on Campus (pdf) |
| Stressed Out | |
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The term “stressed out” is one that many college students use to describe themselves. Stress is an individual’s
response to the demand for change. On a college campus, you are continually bombarded with demands to change — your behavior, your
academic performance, your career or major choice, your values. Faced with these demands, you may seek to resist changing yourself
while also trying to manage the stress so that it does not manage you. The Stressed Out College Student (pdf) |
| Helping Yourself through Grief | |
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It can be deeply painful. Grief reactions may be experienced in response to physical losses, such as a death, or in the response to symbolic or social losses, such as a divorce or loss of a job. Any loss that is significant to the person can result in grief. Each person experiences and expresses grief in his/her own way. You can Help Yourself through Grief (pdf) Counselling is also here to help. |