“The kind of education we want to provide is that it’s okay to feel bad. It’s okay to feel some kind of mental pressure — everybody else feels it,” Khara Timsina said. “But like you have a stomach ache or a headache, you tend to go to a doctor. There is treatment for how you feel, too.”

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Tanya Babbar is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in English nonfiction writing and minoring in creative writing. She’s lived 30 minutes north of Pittsburgh for most of her life, but she and her family got their start in Northern Ireland before coming to the U.S. Tanya writes stories about campus culture and events at The Pitt News and enjoys seeking out the diverse stories the people of Pittsburgh have to share. In her free time, Tanya likes to rollerskate, read on the front-porch, doodle poorly in her sketch pad, hang out with friends and show anyone and everyone a million photos of her cat, Jupiter, or Juppi for short.