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    Gen Z students want better mental health care access on campus

    LOS ANGELES -- When Meera Varma was in high school, she felt like a black cloud followed her everywhere she went. Her struggles with mental health were difficult to explain to family members in their mother tongue, Hindi. Although they were supportive, she needed professional help. She found it in her school counselors, whom she saw almost daily as a senior. After suffering frequent panic ...
    by Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times Jul 14, 2022 5 minutes
    Meera Varma, 23, a senior at UCLA, at her home in Burbank, California, May 23, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES -- When Meera Varma was in high school, she felt like a black cloud followed her everywhere she went.

    Her struggles with mental health were difficult to explain to family members in their mother tongue, Hindi. Although they were supportive, she needed professional help. She found it in her school counselors, whom she saw almost daily as a senior.

    After suffering frequent panic attacks in class, she started advocating at school district meetings for mental health services to be made a priority.

    "I felt really isolated, and I didn't want anyone to ever feel like I did," Varma, 21, said.

    Varma continued that activism after enrolling at UCLA, where she joined Active Minds, an organization whose mission is to change the conversation on mental health among college students. In recent years, that conversation has grown louder.

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