#3 Ten Facts on Mental Health

1. Toronto saw a 200 per cent increase in demand from students in crisis situations: “homeless, suicidal, really sick,"
2. Fully a quarter of university-age Canadians will experience a mental health problem, most often stress, anxiety or depression.
3. About 51 per cent reported that, within the past 12 months, they’d “felt things were hopeless.”
4. A shocking seven per cent admitted they’d “seriously considered suicide,” and about one per cent had attempted it.
5. In the 14 months that followed, five more Queen’s students (all male) died suddenly, three by suicide.
6.  Queens university has grappled with the label of “suicide school,”
7.  People in their late teens and early twenties are at the highest risk for mental illness; in these years, first episodes of psychiatric disorders like major depression are most likely to appear.
8.  Young adults are somehow less equipped to cope.
9. In a 2011 study of eight U.S. universities, Whitlock, who is director of the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behaviors, found that 15 per cent of students had cut, burned or otherwise injured themselves.
10. Amid this bustle, construction workers at Cornell University began installing steel mesh nets under seven bridges around campus.

#2 Book Choice

The book I choose was Cut because I wanted to read about how it feels to really be in deep with depression and that side of self harm. It was nice to pick something that I could relate too and know that when I had issues everything I was feeling was normal... This book was so good that I have already finished it.

#1 Goal REDONE

One goal I have for this 4C English class is to pass with a 70 or higher. I would like this mark to be higher so it looks better on my transcript for post secondary. This mark will help me in my next step in life and become a nurse which has always been a life goal of mine and I think that English may be one of my weakest subjects but I would really like to conquer that and make it one of my best with the hopes that it helps me out in the future especially in my post secondary.