Feeling Down? Screening Session Offers Help

Trained to do supplemental work with USU’s Counseling Center, Reach Peers are a team of undergraduate students who volunteer time to meet with fellow students. The group plans and provides a number of outreach services to students, including a soon-to-be-held depression screening session.

Event organizers pose these questions:

 

Have you or a friend been feeling down lately? Have you lost interest in activities that are normally pleasurable? Have your sleeping and eating habits changed? Do you have feelings of guilt, hopelessness or worthlessness? 

 

These are all symptoms of depression. 

 

Anyone who has experienced any of these symptoms can learn more about depression and what to do about it at the Depression Screening session Thursday, Jan. 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the West Stevenson Ballroom located on the second floor of the Taggart Student Center. 

 

In addition to educational information concerning depression, those attending have the opportunity to complete a free depression screening assessment. 

 

The Reach Peers encourage members of the campus community to attend the screening and learn more about a condition that affects more than 17 million Americans each year.

 

“You are not alone. Help is available,” the organizers said. 

 

This project is sponsored by REACH Peers and the USU Counseling Center.