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Shining a light on mental health

Last updated Oct. 24, 2025

As we progress through the fall semester at Carolina, it's important to remember it's always the right time to take care of yourself and make sure others around you are doing the same.

Keep reading to learn about campus resources and how Tar Heel students, faculty and staff are using outreach and research to prioritize mental health on campus, across North Carolina communities and beyond.

Carolina resources

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    Counseling and Psychological Services

    Carolina's Counseling and Psychological Services is strongly committed to addressing the mental health needs of the student body through timely access to consultation and connection to clinically appropriate services.

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    The Heels Care Network

    A gateway for mental health and wellness resources for everyone on campus, the Heels Care Network can help you find a support group, learn strategies for mental health, connect with trainings and advocacy organizations and find wellness events on campus.

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    Employee Assistance Program

    If you need help, the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Assistance Program is available. The EAP is a confidential counseling and resource program that is designed to help University employees and their families deal with both personal and work-related concerns.

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  • ‘Insecure overachiever’ puts mental health first

    After what he calls a “brain attack,” Michael Stutts sought help to put life and work in perspective.

    “The same way you don’t exercise and eat fatty foods and have a heart attack, you can ignore signals about your mental health and have a ‘brain attack.’ And I had a brain attack.”

  • Zarzar brothers followed father into psychiatry

    Meet three brothers, all UNC psychiatrists and double Tar Heels.

    “We have complementary skill sets and all focus on patients to help them in a professional, compassionate way.”

  • Idania Rodriguez is a mental health advocate

    Now a Carolina sophomore, she founded a nonprofit information hub at 16.

    “During school, I realized that sometimes mental health is not really talked about. There would be students that were struggling in silence or that were afraid to come out and say their feelings because they were afraid of how an adult would take that information.”

  • Brian Hogan's circuitous path to teaching

    In this video, the chemistry professor talks about how he found a way to quiet his lingering doubts.

    “It’s OK if you don’t feel like your life is going in this perfect straight line. I’ve gotten to a point in my life where everything is going pretty well, but it wasn’t always easy and my path to get there was really circuitous, but I did persevere.”

  • Classroom and home lessons guide Zoey Ainsworth to Carolina

    This new Blue Sky scholar wants to help people with disabilities and their caretakers.

    “That perspective is really good to bring to patients because you have to factor in it’s not just their life — it’s the lives of everyone else around them. You don’t know what situations they’re going through.”

  • This sophomore connects film and psychiatry

    Nihal Kollath’s research project looks at how cinema’s depiction of psychiatric care has evolved and influenced audiences to think deeper.

    “I think a lot of people in the medical field can tend to treat people like a number. That’s why mixing the humanities and medicine is so vital. You can relate to the patient’s cultural understanding of certain things thanks to things like film and television.”

  • Social work graduate helps sexual violence, trafficking survivors

    As a social worker, Hannah Collins works in a police department but doesn’t have a gun or wear a badge.

    “The idea is for us to step in and provide those supports and resources.”

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