“One student revealed to the outlet that the school’s mental health care for students is lacking and understaffed. “I get accommodations for my mental health here, but it’s almost like playing the lottery,” 22-year-old Chelsea Laury said.”
I don’t know what circumstances these poor kids were dealing with, so I don’t want to minimize the tragedy of their early deaths - but this sort of stuff is just such a contrast to what my generation experienced just a few decades ago. We had our own refuge for our mental health care - it was called Moody’s Pub - and it got us through four year’s of frustration and disappointment pretty well.
In 1970, I was a freshman in college. I lived in a privately run dorm right next to the campus. It was 12 stories. We used to go to the roof and fly kites. One morning as students were heading out for early classes a student jumped from the roof. He landed on the main path which led to the campus. It was a miracle he did not land on anyone considering the number of people going that way at that time.
Heavy stuff!
Way back in the days when universities were actually academically demanding, we’d hear of a student or two that would commit suicide, and others that would get killed due to an accident of some kind. I guess some things never change.
No autopsies for Vax deaths.
She could have been thrown from the building as well.
I work at NYU. Suicides happen so frequently among students that Bobst (the library) has installed metal screens around the atrium staircases. It used to look like this: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1280/format:webp/0*wb_5GuiX5nTSCAHz.jpg
Now it looks like this: https://architizer-prod.imgix.net/media/138609248832101_Bobst.jpg?w=1680&q=60&auto=format,compress&cs=strip
We have quite a few family friends that have kids in their late teens and early twenties. Most have 3 or more kids in the family and at least ONE in each family in that ‘young adult’ age range is certifiable.
Yeah - something is going on.
