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Weekly Wellness: Test Prep

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Feeling Like a Burden

Reaching out to others can be difficult when you have been told for most of your life how capable you are—how resourceful, bright, and skilled you are at addressing and solving most problems in your life. Sometimes when you are an accomplished person who has been successful, particularly academically successful, you can begin to believe that you should be able to solve all of the challenges you face on your own. The world may seem to suggest that you should not need others because you have not needed much assistance up to this point. … Read more Feeling Like a Burden

Test Anxiety

Feeling anxious about taking a test is absolutely understandable. In fact, anxiety is a routine part of any situation that involves the evaluation of our performance.  Text anxiety involves a number of emotional (e.g., fear, doubt), cognitive (e.g., going blank, thinking “I can’t do this”), and physical (e.g., shortness of breath, sweating) reactions that occur before and during exams.  The key is that these reactions work together in a way that does not allow us to show what we know; our problematic reactions truly block our brains.   In order to… Read more Test Anxiety

Weekly Wellness: Yoga Pose

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness: Study Resources

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness: Good Habits

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness: I’m Proud of YOU!

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Message to ME Students from Professor Jones

ME Students: Those of you that know me know I am a huge basketball fan.  As you prepare to enter the final exam week, this is akin to heading into the NCAA Tournament.  It is the end of a long season.  Players are weary.  Students are weary.  This is the time to marshal your efforts in a focused manner to perform your very best in this critical week.  It is not going to perfect.  The question is are you going to shrink under the pressure or rise to the occasion? … Read more Message to ME Students from Professor Jones

Weekly Wellness: Negative Self-Talk & What to do Instead

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness: Get Started with CAPS Resources

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness: Why I like to talk to a professional

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness – Need a break? Take one outside!

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness – Do you have exams coming up? Learn some Tips & Tricks with LouAnna

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness – Feeling like things aren’t going your way? Learn how to change your perspective with LouAnna

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness – Are You Feeling Depleted? Learn How To Fill Your Bucket with LouAnna

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Weekly Wellness – Are You Stressed? Take a Breath with LouAnna

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Take this survey and be entered to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card

Participants must be ages 18 to 23, and enrolled as an undergraduate student in an engineering program in the United States. If you agree to participate, the survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Participation is completely voluntary, and your answers will be anonymous. A copy of the survey is attached for your reference. After completing the survey, you will have the option of entering your email address on a separate webform if you would like to be entered into a random drawing for one of fifteen $25… Read more Take this survey and be entered to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card

Weekly Wellness – Introduction for Mental Health Awareness Week

The Weekly Wellness Corner is not a substitution for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are currently seeing someone for your mental and/or physical health, we encourage you to continue following their instructions. If you are looking for a mental health professional to discuss your individual needs, we recommend you reach out to Purdue’s Counseling and Psychological Services.