For this week's reading assignment, I was especially intrigued by Cindy Nhi Huynh's piece titled "An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School". In this written work, Cindy Nhi Huynh explains how her journey as a hopeful doctoral candidate turned into a battle for survival. In the beginning, Huynh was an established "rock-star doctoral student", yet she was plagued with her naiveness towards the real and harsh world of academia. Although many colleges and universities promote equal opportunities and diversity, it is not the true case. The discrepancies of these institutions are shown through their treatment of their minority faculty members and students. Individuals like Huynh have to endure so much in order to be regarded as "good enough". When I was reading about Huynh's wounds and her overall decaying health, I was reminded of how lacking the physical, emotional, and psychological support is in the academy. Mental health is a disease and many people do not realize how important it is. The academy should not disregard this and instead should address the importance of putting health before work.
My question is: why is there such a lack of support for mental health in colleges, universities, and in other workplaces?
References
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, by
Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 219-
233.
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