Posted on 05/22/2009 11:55:54 AM PDT by greatdefender
WASHINGTON – Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless.
So much for those carefree college days.
The vast majority of college students are feeling stressed these days, and significant numbers are at risk of depression, according to an Associated Press-mtvU poll
Eighty-five percent of the students reported feeling stress in their daily lives in recent months, with worries about grades, school work, money and relationships the big culprits.
At the same time, 42 percent said they had felt down, depressed or hopeless several days during the past two weeks, and 13 percent showed signs of being at risk for at least mild depression, based on the students' answers to a series of questions that medical practitioners use to diagnose depressive illness.
These students complained of trouble sleeping, having little energy or feeling down or hopeless — and most hadn't gotten professional help. Eleven percent had had thoughts that they'd be better off dead or about hurting themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Boo Frickin Hoo
13% at risk of showing signs of mild depression? Doesn’t sound like the biggest problem on the planet.
Same as it ever was.
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The author must have never been in college!
Oh wait, he was a “Journalism” major!
If I understand this correctly students are worried about grades, money, and boyfriends and/or girlfriends. Sometimes those worries result in depression. This is new? I am not making lite of this, but this has been going on for years. Those students who may harm themselves or others should be referred to the people on campus who are qualified to help them
Who doesn't feel stressed in collage. Its hard working three jobs and taking six years to complete a four year degree, living is a dump, driving a 20 year old car running on its last legs. Thank goodness for pot. Oh, wait that was me.
The best advice I can give a depressed college student:
Stay as far away from the RAT party as you can. Your outlook on life will improve dramatically.
I don’t blame them look wh has usurped the presidency......
Big deal. Suck it up, sweeties. Wait’ll you graduate. Then your shoulders will really be up against the big stone.
Don’t worry; be happy!
Wonder how many voted for Zero?
Suck it up. And, who cares. Shut up and stop whining.
Wow, there’s a shocker. I was stressed too when I was in college. Stressed that I wouldn’t make tuition as I worked two jobs and did full time school...depressed that I had no social life at that time. But I made it and am better for it.
Guess now it’s a “syndrome” that will need taxpayer money to treat.
what are you talking about??
obama will fix this too.
nothing to worry about except where the next party will be.
hope/change are here. how can this be?
I’m in law school rather than college, but I don’t feel stressed in the least. Lots of students are prone to making decisions that unnecessarily stress them—e.g., taking on loads of debt to major in sociology at a mediocre school where the odds of getting a job to pay off that debt are slim to none.
I think if most parents would visit today’s classrooms - K-12 AND college, they might find that the liberal dogma that is being spewed forth might very well have something to do with the depression the kids are feeling.
Think about it - this is what kids are taught:
1. You evolved from a primate - you have no intrinsic worth from your creator.
2. Your country is evil and is the reason for all the world’s problems and should you think for one minute that your country is good, then you suffer from ethnocentrism, which is a sin
3. Killing our most innocent is just FINE
4. There are NO absolutes unless it’s something WE the elites tell you but that’s just for the moment - THUS, there is no consistency or stability.
5. Go ahead and have sex - just use a condom - it won’t cause you any heartaches, or emotional traumas at all - sex is healthy - it doesn’t matter if you are married or not. Experimenting is just fine - go ahead and try it all out - this is what youth is for.
I could go on and on, but if that doesn’t depress them I don’t know what might. That’s why I’m glad I’m going NOW so I can recognize the spin and BS.
I remember feeling like this when in college back in 1974. Nobody cared....
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