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Senior psychology major Joanna Kuang first began thinking about the prevalence of mental health illness in teenagers during her sophomore year of high school. After publicly sharing her own mental health challenges, her classmates began sharing their own stories.
When Kuang arrived at Carolina as a Morehead-Cain Scholar in 2017, she had never taken a psychology course but quickly declared the subject her major so she could better understand the mental health issues facing adolescents and try to help more people live well.
Kuang has spent the past three years pursuing that interest in her coursework and by studying eating disorders in the Bardone-Cone Lab. Her senior honors thesis even focuses on eating disorders and social pressures like body shaming.