New concerns arise about the mental health of students on college campuses all across the country.
Dr. Gene Beresin, a psychiatrist and Executive Director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital, says 50% to 60% of college students have a psychiatric disorder.
“What I’m including in that is the use of substances, anxiety, depression, problems with relationships, break-ups, academic problems, learning disabilities, attentional problems,” says Dr. Beresin. “If you add them all up 50% doesn’t seem that high.”
Some undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) agree.
“People go through tough times,” says Dane Erickson, a rising junior from Naples, Florida. “It’s really stressful sometimes here at school.”
“I know a couple of friends who had a difficult first semester last year,” explains Maddie Burgoyne, a rising sophomore from Michigan.
Dr. Beresin says the suicide rate in college in astronomical. “A college student kills himself every day,” he says.
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3 comments:
I could agree with those numbers, especially these days.
They all good participation trophies and never learned that the opposite of happy happy joy joy is sad. They cannot deal with rejection and failure because they were shielded from it by helicopter mommies and sometimes daddies. Bunch of whiny cry babies.
They don't all have helicopter parents. Some of them probably had absent parents or ones who just didn't care.
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