Axe ’Em, Jacks!
Awareness, acceptance and a healthy expression of one's feelings
- Intimacy
- Interdependence
- Independence
- Expression of emotions
- Stress management
- Positive attitude and outlook on life
- Coping and communication skills
- Assertiveness and healthy boundaries
- Choosing ones's reaction to life
Areas of concern and available resources
Anxiety
Concerns may include:
- excessive worry about minor or major things
- sudden feelings of panic or fear
- feeling nervous or agitated
- and racing pulse, sweaty palms or shaky hands.
Body image
Concerns may include:
- continual unhappiness with physical appearance
- thinking or saying critical comments about your body
- frequent comparison of your body to others
- and scrutinizing yourself in the mirror or avoiding looking into a mirror.
Depression
Concerns may include:
- feeling sad or unmotivated
- inability to get out of bed and engage in usually basic things such as:
- going to class
- eating
- returning communication with friends or loved ones
- loss in enjoyment in activities that used to bring joy and pleasure
- feeling numb
- feelings of hopelessness or helplessness
- and physical symptoms such as extreme fatigue, GI issues or headaches.
Disability accommodations
Concerns may include:
- disability
- class or campus accommodations
- testing accommodations
- struggling to learn
- testing anxiety
- not knowing if you have a disability
- and being new to a disability, whether physical or with learning.
Eating disorders
Concerns may include:
- abnormal or disturbed eating habits
- eating too much
- skipping meals or not eating enough
- body concerns
- and dealing with an eating disorder.
Family concerns
Concerns may include:
- change in family dynamic that causes stress
- difficulty communicating with family
- conflicting goals, beliefs, or values with family that cause stress or distress
- feeling unsupported by family
- and feeling pressured by family.
Feeling isolated
Concerns may include:
- not having as many friends as you would like
- trouble making connections on campus
- no "group" that you relate with
- and a lot of time spent alone.
First-generation student support
Concerns may include:
- support and guidance for students who are the first in their families to attend college.
Food insecurity
Concerns may include:
- lack of food
- not being able to afford food
- and no access to nutritious foods.
Hazing
Concerns may include:
- questions about hazing and what constitutes hazing
- thinking you may be hazed or treated unfairly by a group with which you are involved
- and wondering whether what is expected of you is appropriate or inappropriate.
Hearing voices
Concerns may include:
- auditory hallucinations
- and other types of hallucinations, such as visual, olfactory, taste and sensory.
Homesickness
Concerns may include:
- difficulty adjusting to a new culture
- missing family and friends back home
- fear of missing out on activities and events back home
- feeling isolated or lonely
- and difficulty establishing new connections in a study abroad location.
Housing insecurity
Concerns may include:
- homelessness or risk of homelessness
- and gap period while changing housing.
LGBTQIA+ support
Concerns may include:
- uncertainty about where to seek support as a sexual minority
- questions about LGBTQIA+ issues
- and the inability to find a welcoming atmosphere.
Loneliness
Concerns may include:
- staying in room all the time
- having no one to talk with
- homesickness
- and shyness.
Peer pressure
Concerns may include:
- feeling pressure to participate in an activity or event that makes you uncomfortable
- feeling like you can't say "no" to something you really don't want to do
- and worries about your image or if people will not like you if you don't participate in an activity.
Postpartum/perinatal depression
Concerns may include:
- Feel sad or having a depressed mood
- Changes in appetite
- Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
- Lack of interest in the baby or feeling anxious about/around the baby
- Fear of harming the baby or oneself
Relationship concerns
Concerns may include:
- partner arguments over the same things over and over
- you or your partner have unrealistic expectations of each other
- you or your partner often are dishonest or leave out pieces of information when sharing
- you or your partner don't trust one another
- and you feel criticized by your partner.
Sexual assault
Concerns may include:
- you have been sexually assaulted, recently or in the past, and want to talk to someone about your options
- you want to process a sexual assault
- feeling powerless, scared or numb
- being in denial or blaming yourself
- and being unable to sleep or having flashbacks of the assault.
Sexually transmitted infection
Concerns may include:
- questions about whether you have a sexually transmitted disease or infection
- needing more information about preventing sexually transmitted disease or infection
- accessing condoms
- and information about getting tested for sexually transmitted disease or infection.
Stress
Concerns may include:
- noticing a change in your sleeping or eating habits
- experiencing a drop in grades
- feeling angry, sad or overreacting to small things
- worrying constantly
- becoming forgetful
- not wanting to study
- and frequently getting headaches and stomach problems.
Suicidal thoughts
Concerns may include:
- having suicidal thoughts
- and thinking about or having thoughts of harming yourself or others.