Author Archives: Erica Banks

As you may have already noticed, one of the required sources this semester is Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Mad-House. For those of you who do not know, Nellie Bly was an American journalist who committed herself to Blackwell’s Island Asylum for the Insane to witness asylum life and treatment first-hand. You know that… Continue reading Why I Would Invite Nellie Bly For Tea

Whilst we are a few weeks within the semester, I have one question to ask: how is everyone? Are you all doing alright? Drinking plenty of water? Getting some fresh air, making good decisions? Good! Anyways, the post for this Thursday is going to be about grounding; one of the most infamous methods of easing… Continue reading Grounding

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: This post is not meant to encourage suicide, nor is it meant to discuss it. This has nothing to do with suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is experiencing real suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255. You are not alone. At some point in our… Continue reading The Call of the Void

For this Tuesday’s blog post, I have decided to explain my experience with my own personal mental health notion: anxiety. The first time that I began to take notice of my anxiety was around my years of high school. I would constantly worry about things that were beyond my control. Even to this day, I… Continue reading My Personal Experience With Anxiety

So according to the syllabus, we must post something to our blog every Thursday that is related to the class or our project at hand. Since I am in love with video games, I thought that this post would be cool and unique! So I am not sure if any of you have heard of… Continue reading White Enamel

My questions for the Grob Reading: Could the negative concept of mental health; which entailed that mental illnesses were a personal problem rather than a societal problem; correlate with how we treat and recognize mental illnesses today? Based on how mental health has been approached throughout centuries, was mental health ever approached in a respectful/… Continue reading Wiki for 8/31/2021- Grob

Blog Home Header Image: Morin, A. (2021). A Display of Different Mental Health Issues . Very Well Mind . https://www.verywellmind.com/definition-of-mental-illness-4587855.

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Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Hello, and welcome to my blog! My name is Erica Banks and I’m a senior at the University of Mary Washington! This blog is specifically for one of my classes: History of Mental Health in the U.S. Please stay tuned for more blog posts and… Continue reading #1: Introduction