When you're finding your voice, you're going to be doing a lot of experimenting. Some of what you write, frankly, is going to be lousy. Some of it will shock you with how good you really are. But the only way you'll get any of the good stuff is if you allow yourself to put whatever comes into your head down on the page without demanding salable prose of yourself.
Finding Voice is an organization of University of Michigan students dedicated to improving the campus environment for students with psychological disorders. Some of us have struggled personally with mental illness, some of us have friends or family members who have faced mental illness, and some of us have no prior experience with psychological disorders. We all work together to provide better support and advocacy for students with psychological disorders, mental health education for members of the UM community, and a creative expression forum for individuals impacted by psychological disorders.
The Finding Voice website was constructed by a group of University of Michigan students who struggle with mental health issues. We created this website to provide information on psychological disorders and their treatment from a student perspective. We are not mental health professionals, and nothing on this site is meant to be definitive; it simply reflects our personal experiences and the information we have gained in our struggles.
Finding a Voice More than half the languages spoken around the world today will be gone before the century is over. What does that mean to the people who speak them? What does that mean for the rest of us? Finding a Voice explores the connections between language and identity at a time of dizzying change. (54:04)
