<p>I think CAPS is free but I could be wrong. Otherwise you can check your insurance plan, Duke’s student plan probably covers it and I know that my parents’ one that I was on covered it. </p>
<p>As for your parents finding out, I believe HIPAA actually prohibits that unless you give your permission for your health records to be made available to them in that instance. In any case, I think you can assume a certain degree of confidentiality but you can always ask to be sure. </p>
<p>You could also try other more organized activities. If you are religious or even curious, then on campus groups such as InterVarsity or Cambridge Fellowship are quite large and organized so you don’t have to worry about it fizzling. You can try intramural or club sports if you have interests in any of them, many do not require much previous experience. If you are part of a special community (Asian students, Latino students, students from Hong Kong, etc) there are often groups dedicated to those that are quite active and many of them welcome affiliated members who are not part of the community (I often went to many HK student association events because one of my good friends was a member). Common rooms are often great places to meet people. My freshmen dorm had large study groups every thursday evening in the common room because the engineers usually had lab reports due on Friday for EGR53. There are probably other stuff I’m missing.</p>