Colleges are TEACHING mentally ill thinking patterns. To raise every little thing to a catastrophe, to assume ill intent in everything, to say you know what others are thinking subconsciously.
The Coddling of the American Mind
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
You got it right. The kids are being programmed into mental illness by all these control freaks. I am amazed at how far things have slid in just the last generation. The absurdity of this one cannot be understated: They are offering emotional psychological support to people disturbed by the mere idea that someone was invited to speak. These people are not being forced to hear him, or even be anywhere near the campus when he does speak. They are offended just at the thought of the invitation. And Ben Shapiro is not all that provocative.
There are very few of the old guard liberal/leftists - the people who used to go to Berkley and burn the place down to demand more free speech diversity - speaking up. They are letting this new breed of CTRL-Leftist run the show, shutting down debate, dissent, free speech, free thought. The only one I can think of who is speaking out against the trend is Alan Dershowitz.
The scariest thing about that article is its age. In the two years since it was written, the situation has gotten progressively worse.