Posted on 12/23/2021 5:32:23 AM PST by BusterDog
Colleges across the country are facing a mental health crisis, driven in part by the pandemic. After almost two years of remote schooling, restricted gatherings and constant testing, many students are anxious, socially isolated, depressed — and overwhelming mental health centers. At a few institutions, there has been a troubling spate of suicides.
Now another swell of Covid cases, driven by the Omicron variant, threatens to make life on campus worse.
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Just read a stat this morning that depression is up 285% since 2019. Wonder why?
Not due to the pandemic but the overreaction to the pandemic. And also a lack of learned resiliency.
Adaptation of communism is their mental health risk.
Proving that the people in control of regulating this thing have no concern for public health. This strain is like a bad cold. What do college kids care about that?
They are at a developmental stage where they must be with people and people their own age.
These young people have essentially been subjected to imprisonment in solitary and deprival of their human rights, suddenly and through no fault of their own, for two years now.
Nobody is prepared for that or has experienced it before (in this country). It’s not fair to blame them for “lack of resiliency” under these completely unprecedented and undreamed of conditions.
Parents, stay in constant communication with your students.
Visit your student(s) on campus, even stay with them for a couple days.
They realize how much they need and love you and they listen to advice on time management and priority setting.
For the parents there are AA Zoom calls now.
https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings
Best advice is keep God at the center of it all.
Most churches have lives-streaming services now.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Yeah, riiiiiight.
I’m soooo glad that I graduated from a college years ago that had standards. Actually, back then, most did. Now? Bwahahahahahaah!
Oppressive restrictions and mandates are mentally taxing. I recently left Illinois for a free state, and my personal mental health, outlook and energy level improved 1000%.
The college’s paranoid responses, rules, regulations and restrictions worthy of the CCP would push even the most mentally balanced over the edge.
Proof of vaccination. Masking anyway. Temperature checks before entering buidlings.
And they pay how much to endure this Bravo Sierra?
The colleges are more responsible for the mental health disaster of college aged kids than just about anything else.
A lot of them also don’t how to do things for themselves. My seniors can’t do anything. There are huge gaps in their knowledge and ability to learn where their previous teachers clearly weren’t doing their job in zoom school. It’s been miserable. It’s amazing what happens to people when they aren’t free.
The life script sold to them has been exposed as a complete fraud. Once they accept they have to figure it out on their own with the help of such greats as Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictitus, etc., they can move on and never look back.
Could it be the atheistic nihilism promoted by most colleges? A view on life that denies human nature and moral values? A conviction that one’s delusion overrides one’s chromosomes?
I thank God my daughter is a mama bear who has taken charge of her four kids’ educations. She is their teachers worst nightmare.
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Colleges have been creating mental health crises for decades.
I think all American (USA) kids should be sent to a REAL ranch for at least a year before they are released into the real world. All we have anymore (with exception to homeschooled) is a bunch of pussies.. :/
This could be solved very easily if 10% of the students at any given college recognized that it is campus and societal leaders who are the ones who are mentally ill and started on a campaign to educate others to this through flyers, guerilla theatre, etc.
Colleges in CA are offering more and more online classes only (with or without shutdowns and lockdowns), dorm dining plans have reduced hours and very few selections, rec centers that are rarely open, and healthy 20 something students are masked all day long—even in dorms—and are treated like vectors of disease.
Not to mention the required vax and now (as of yesterday) a required booster. Which can cause clots in young women and heart issues in young men. I think CA college students (along with CA health care workers) are the first group in the United States to have a mandated booster. And they are the LEAST likely group to be affected by covid. . .
My son is a freshman at Cal State—he got into some affordable TX and AZ colleges but he chose to stay in state. He’s had a good first year though despite all this—although one of his 4 classes was partly online and he struggled in that one.
It’s VERY clear to me that CA simply hates college students.
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