The Dis-course Archive

Dis-Course is a bi-weekly newsletter which covers a variety of mental health related issues. It discusses topics ranging from grief, to reconnection, to resolutions and much more. Its goal is to start conversations on mental health and to create an environment in which people feel seen and know they are not alone in their experiences.

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Issue XI: Adult Diagnosis

Issue XI: Adult Diagnosis

Ultimately, an adult diagnosis may feel like a discouraging or disappointing development. But most of us have had our conditions for a long time, just without a name to the face. The presence of a ...

Issue X: The Fig Tree

Issue X: The Fig Tree

“We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a...

Issue IX: Growth

Issue IX: Growth

There is a reason it is called growing pains. We must experience adversity, loss, or discomfort to grow. It must come in succession of a challenge. This collection aims to serve as a reminder of it...

Issue VIII: Love Lessons

Issue VIII: Love Lessons

Valentine's, the most romantic, or miserable day of the year. Entirely dependent on one defining factor: a fulfilling romantic relationship. [“Fulfilling” “romantic” and “relationship”, are all int...

Issue VII: Impostor Syndrome

Issue VII: Impostor Syndrome

It appears that most of us have an ingrained propensity to doubt our capacity almost to the point of self sabotage. There is nothing more discouraging to one’s motivation than to feel that your eff...

Issue VI: Self Reliance

Issue VI: Self Reliance

Because as much as I wanted to get my answers from someone else, the hardest yet most liberating pill to swallow was that building a dialogue with someone whose opinion I valued was in essence, an ...

Issue V: Resolutions & Resolutionaries

Issue V: Resolutions & Resolutionaries

Take the new year as an opportunity to shift your current self into your future self. Because at the end of the day it is a matter of deciding not who you want to be but who you are.

Issue IV: Reconnection & the Holidays

Issue IV: Reconnection & the Holidays

Whatever your practices, beliefs, or traditions may be, winter is a time when people demonstrate a need for contact and comfort from each other. You just might find that investing into interpersona...

Issue III: Grief & The Holidays

Issue III: Grief & The Holidays

The human condition is one that exists in a series of dichotomies. As light cannot exist without the dark, and pain cannot exist without pleasure. For many, the emphasis on love, joy, and togethern...

Issue II: Men & Mental Health

Issue II: Men & Mental Health

In men's health month, we discuss the nuances and reasons behind the disproportionately large number of men suffering from mental health issues in silence.

Issue I: Seasons of Change

Issue I: Seasons of Change

Welcome dear reader, to the first issue of Dis-course. We’re thrilled to have you here. Join us on this journey and share with us what's yet to come.