A sense of angst was rattling students at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. One of their peers had taken his life days before.
Professor Mikel Snow felt the dark undercurrent and knew he had to speak up. So, for the first time, he told his students about his decades-long struggle with depression. As word spread, students across the campus started contacting him to discuss the suicide — and to share their own psychological distress.
“The reaction has been astounding,” Snow said. “It crystallized that this is a much bigger issue than any of us really realized.”
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