Yale Student Shares Alarming Story About How The University Deals With Mental Health Issues
Her brutal essay in the Yale Daily News - titled "We Just Can't Have You Here" - denounces how mental health problems are handled at the university and speaks to a problem at schools across America.
Williams argues that Yale is too quick to send home students with mental health problems rather than helping them.
"Neither the staff members I spoke with nor a fellow Yalie who had prior experience in the hospital knew of any Yale student admitted to the hospital who had been allowed to stay at Yale," Williams writes.
Yale has not commented on her article and did not respond to our request for comment.
One of the most unnerving parts of Williams' essay is her disclosure of how she hurt herself and what happened to her when Yale found out:
After a week in the hospital, Williams was forced to withdraw from Yale, with no idea as to if or when she would be allowed back at school.
One year later, she has been reaccepted and returned to the university.