Hi! My name is Allison and I am a history major at UMW. My educational journey has been nontraditional, but I’m excited to say that after several years of taking a class or two a semester, I’m almost done with my degree! I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I’ve lived in Fredericksburg for most of my life which is probably where my love for history came from. My dad is a civil war enthusiast and took (dragged) our family to many museums and battlefields when we were growing up. I never minded because I loved to think about what happened in the past, but my siblings were less enthused. I still love to go to museums and historical landmarks for fun.
I decided to take this class because I needed a senior seminar class and the topic of mental health is interesting to me. As someone who has clinical depression, I would like to learn more about all of the different facets of mental health from a historical sense. I also think that normalizing the broad concept of mental health is important, so becoming more educated about the history of it will contribute to that. I look forward to analyzing different perspectives in our readings, and relating dated concepts to modern ideas from the present.
