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Hand Habits’ ‘placeholder’: an exploration of anxiety

Hanna Kennedy | Friday, March 29, 2019

Anxiety-ridden, confused, refusing to use capital letters. These adjectives could describe the average college student, or they could describe the second album released by Meg Duffy’s Hand Habits: “placeholder.” Available since early March, the project continues Duffy’s exploration of vulnerability that began with their first release, “Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void).” Hand Habits’ characteristic

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Choosing joy

Show Some Skin | Thursday, January 31, 2019

I do not, and probably never will, identify as an optimist. I find cynicism comforting to my anxiety about the future: I’m either right about failure or pleasantly surprised by success. I look for the bad in myself and the future, because at least if I fail, it isn’t surprising. This is not my best

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‘Eighth Grade’ profoundly comforting, heartbreaking

Nora McGreevy | Monday, September 3, 2018

Eighth grade is the worst. Take the birthday pool party, for instance. For the introverted, self-conscious kid with anxiety, a pool party is a minefield of potential trauma. Social interaction without the comfortable confines of the classroom, gift-giving, navigating conversations with your cliquey peers — and all in swimsuits, no less. “Eighth Grade,” directed by Bo

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Notre Dame community creates space for play in ‘Money Worries’

Nora McGreevy | Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Finding the Scholz Family Gallery in the Snite Museum of Art can be a bit tricky the first time around. Enclosed by glass and nestled next to the coat room, this smaller, more intimate gallery feels a bit unanchored from the rest of the museum. Inside the gallery, the lights are dimmed, and the echoes

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Class teaches students mindfullness

Gina Twardosz | Thursday, September 28, 2017

Several Saint Mary’s students are taking Notre Dame’s Mindfulness and Meditation course to become more mindful and less stressed. Senior Kate Zurovchak said Mindfulness and Meditation focuses on being present in the moment. “Mindfulness is being present in the moment. People usually get caught up in a lot of things, like with stress or anxiety,”

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Breathe

Caroline Humphreys | Monday, September 18, 2017

I can’t catch my breath. I’m drowning in a flood of anxiety and my heart races likes it wants to escape. I sit, staring without seeing, until my mom answers an SOS text, and begins, “What is it now?” She knows I’m having a panic attack because my obsessive personality paired with crippling anxiety has

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On passing and pride

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, April 12, 2017

There’s a stand up segment, by Louis C.K. where a distinction is drawn between gay men and “f–s.” I think most people believe it is comedy gold. I certainly thought it was hilarious the first time I watched it. I laughed and thanked God that I was not like the “f–s” he mocked. I can, and do,“pass” as

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Professors study methods to reduce stress

Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, December 6, 2016

With finals and the end of the semester right around the corner, student stress levels are on the rise. Two Saint Mary’s professors — Jennifer Bauer, assistant professor of nursing, and Catherine Pittman, associate professor of psychology — both studied stress and its effect on students. Bauer said she conducted a stress study on sophomore

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The easy way out

Jordan Ryan | Thursday, November 3, 2016

It is an unfortunate reality that in a number of countries, mentally ill individuals are legally allowed to pursue euthanasia to end their lives. In nations including the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Colombia and possibly soon in Canada, persons diagnosed with mental or behavioral disorders may choose to end their lives through physician-assisted suicide irrespective

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Learning to write again

Jimmy Kemper | Thursday, October 13, 2016

I’m a terrible writer. I don’t think I’ve managed to write an essay within the past few years that hasn’t been sent in at the absolute last minute. Part of the problem stems from the fact that my process is all over the place. I tend to set the goal for myself of getting a page

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