Roundtables #36 — National Family Day is this week! What ways have the people in your family supported and influenced your mental health journey? Reflect on what you have learned about mental health through your family’s help.

Jennifer Vu: Typically, families are there to support you — no matter what mishap you go through, no matter the struggles you experience, and no matter the circumstances that cause you to fall apart. I don’t just mean family by blood — I also want to include those who I am not related to, yet who I call my family. We are heavily influenced by the surroundings we grew up in and those around us, therefore our mental health is also influenced by these different areas of our lives as well. 

Roundtables #27 – If you could look at the timeline of your mental health journey from a bird’s eye view, what would it look like? How does this perspective help you?

Caleb Izaguirre: Like my fellow team members, there isn’t a defined bird’s eye view of my mental health journey. The journey also hasn’t been linear as it has been either a cause of effect for a variety of moments in my life.