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Report Suggests There is a Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses

Report Suggests There is a Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses

“What we’re seeing now are growing numbers of students coming [onto] campus who are already being treated for mental illness”

Anyone who pays attention to the unhinged behavior of some college students over the last couple of years will find this easy to believe.

NPR reports:

College Students (And Their Parents) Face A Campus Mental Health ‘Epidemic’

As colleges and universities across the country report an explosion of mental health problems, a new book argues that college life may be more stressful than ever. Dr. Anthony Rostain, co-author of The Stressed Years of Their Lives, notes that today’s college students are experiencing an “inordinate amount of anxiety” — much of it centered on “surviving college and doing well.”

“What we’re seeing now are growing numbers of students coming [onto] campus who are already being treated for mental illness, or who are on various medications and who really have learned to manage their illnesses at home,” he says, “but suddenly they’re on their own and sometimes they’re not following through [with] their own recommended treatments.”

Rostain is a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the former chair of the school’s Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare. His co-author, B. Janet Hibbs, is a family and couples psychotherapist whose son took a medical leave of absence during his first college spring break to deal with anxiety and depression. Hibbs faced a difficult set of choices: she wanted to best parent her son as he struggled, but she also wanted his life to stay on track.

“One of the reasons we wrote this book is not to scare parents, but to help them know what they can do to help,” she says. “When a child, for whatever reason, is hopeless or verging on that, families are incredibly, vitally important in maintaining hope. … Having the emotional expression of the family convey warmth, support, unconditional support, not judgment, that … is one of the best medicines.”

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Comments

The mental disorder is liberalism. Snowflakes apparently can’t take the heat. No sympathy…learn to code…or flip vegan food.

“she wanted to best parent her son as he struggled…”

What does this mean? What was she doing while he was growing up?

    Recall the trope about the mechanic’s car being in poor condition. She was involved in her career, not her family. This is the modern (read: liberal) lifestyle wherein parents leave the parenting to the child’s K-12 teachers. When the child is presumably matured and entering college, the parent (and child) discovers he/she cannot cope.

      Mike H. in reply to LWP. | May 30, 2019 at 5:16 pm

      My point was about the jargon involved “best parent her son.”

      Your point is the main point to take away from the column.

The book “The Coddling of the American Mind” makes a similar claim: apparently college students are on average two years developmentally delayed as compared to previous generations. Part of this they ascribe to really bad principals that are now embedded in education.