Mental health – The Chant

Virtual Spirit Week is here!!!
Toilet paper panic-buying seeming to subside
Students delighted about AP exams moving online
Unusual benefit for penguins during COVID-19 concerns
Cobb schools still closed indefinitely. Stay tuned!

Painting, exercising, and dieting constitute ways to stay in control of one's life in a time when everything seems out of control. Doing what one can to improve their mental health in a time where social distancing creates normality can produce differences when it comes to one's mental state. “Exercising helps me relieve stress and deal with anxiety in a healthy way. The adrenaline produced when exercising helps me feel like I am lifting all the weight off of my shoulders,” NC freshman Carson Walker said.

3 ways to improve your mental health amid a pandemic

March 27, 2020

Counselors from all over Cobb County came together to help inform students, staff and parents about anxiety disorders that affect young people. Viewers walked to each table set up outside of the auditorium to talk about anxiety and other types of mental health.
“The kids will always be our top priority and it’s important that we invest in the future,” NC guidance counselor Michelle Perlin said.

Angst Movie night

March 2, 2020

Anxiety among children, & those of high school age specifically, has become a major epidemic in recent years. According to a February 2019 Pew study, 70% of American teenagers consider it (along with depression) a major problem in their communities, an issue compounded among higher achievers. To remedy this, the school district will be showing a short film titled Angst this Wednesday night from 6 to 8 p.m; afterwards, a panel will take place to further educate attendees on mental health. For more information, visit this website.

Anxiety strikes again

February 24, 2020

Each pair of running shoes gathered here will eventually travel about three hundred miles before being replaced, providing thousands of hours of healthy exercise. Running purely for physical benefit doesn’t provide the only reason someone might want to put on their running shoes, however. An increasing amount of studies show that exercise provides several mental benefits as well.

Enduring for the endorphins: An overview of running’s mental benefits

December 6, 2019

Too stressed for success

Too stressed for success

May 21, 2018

Don't do your homework

Don’t do your homework

April 26, 2018

Students avidly look through Instagram and Snapchat on a daily basis and slowly become consumed by it. Every day, students spend an abundant amount of time on their phones, affecting their friendships. “If I spent less time on my phone, I would be able to focus more on the moment and not be busy trying to record it,” junior Lauren Reagan said.

Social media increases depression and anxiety in teens

October 16, 2017

Autumn Boekeloo deals with her OCD on a daily basis,

More than a quirk: the truth behind OCD

December 7, 2016

Students share stress relief techniques

Stress causes serious problems to both physical and mental health.

Gabby Weaver, Reporter

March 2, 2016

The silent epidemic: Mental health wreaks havoc

Junior Jocelyn Esquivel demonstrates the transition from a calm state to an anxious one, and comments on the issue of mental health: “Mental health is extremely important because it improves the quality of our lives in ways we wouldn’t expect it to.”

Gabby Weaver, Reporter

December 15, 2015

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