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The Downey Legend

The School Newspaper of Downey High School

The Downey Legend

The School Newspaper of Downey High School

The Downey Legend

More About the Wellness Center

Gabriela Guzman, Writer December 22, 2022

Located in Room A-101, is the Wellness Center, which is a program that offers students mental health support. The Wellness Center is a safe space to help students find support for any physical, mental,...

Methods to Improve Mental Health

Abigail Gonzalez, Writer September 30, 2022

The scale of stress manifested by one's thoughts is established by human emotion and managed by human decisions. There is ample evidence when people are stressed, they are demonstrated to encompass tolls...

Social Isolation: How it Affected Our Brains

Valerie Mora, Editor-In-Chief May 1, 2021

COVID-19 has abruptly forced almost everyone into a long period of social isolation, and humans do not  typically do well in these situations since they are such social creatures. Students, teachers,...

Mental Illness Awareness – Therapy

Katherine Portillo, Photographer February 8, 2021

Dealing with mental health is different for everyone. Once diagnosed with a disorder, a very common option to help offer support to the person may be therapy. In 2021, we started to shy away from the overall...

Mental Health Amid Covid-19: Update

Katherine Portillo, Photographer May 19, 2020

As the days get longer in quarantine we continue to see distress in the mental health of others. Many popular news outlets like CNN, Time Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times have posted articles on how...

Mental Health Amid COVID-19

Katherine Portillo, Photographer April 15, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to increase we start to see a decline in mental health as well. This could be brought upon by many things such as not being able to leave the house, the nerves of this disease...

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