I haven’t been sure about whether I should talk about my mental health issues in one of the UC Personal Question prompts. I was dealing with pretty extreme anxiety and depression during my freshman year and I’ve spent the past 3 healing myself and that struggle was really what made me into the person I am today. Most of my best qualities come from that healing process, but I’ve seen that mentioning mental health on applications in looked down on. So I’m wondering how I should go about this. My depression is now completely gone but I still deal with some anxiety symptoms but nothing that would get in the way of school.
I would be very careful about writing about mental illness. See this past thread for the discussion.
You want to write about reasons the UC’s should admit you not the opposite. You could mention a past medical issue and how it made you a better person but I would tread lightly.