Talking about Mental Health in UC Essays

Vanilla01
Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:08:21 +0000

I haven’t been sure about whether I should talk about my mental health issues in one of the UC Personal Question prompts. I was dealing with pretty extreme anxiety and depression during my freshman year and I’ve spent the past 3 healing myself and that struggle was really what made me into the person I am today. Most of my best qualities come from that healing process, but I’ve seen that mentioning mental health on applications in looked down on. So I’m wondering how I should go about this. My depression is now completely gone but I still deal with some anxiety symptoms but nothing that would get in the way of school.