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One of the main causes of stress is getting used to the new life which we have suddenly landed in. For most college students it’s the first time that they have lived outside the nurturing and protective security of the family unit. Their parents used to provide for them materially and used to set down boundaries on how to live. This no longer applies in college and one of the first tasks that they should undertake is to find an identity and effectively test the rules that were set out by their parents.



The uncertainty and lack of identity is a common cause of stress for them. School-related issues also cause stress for students these days. It can be caused by them doing so badly in college that they gave up all hope of doing something worthwhile with their lives, or it could be caused by just not living up to their own standards. Stress also creates the way people deal with things like smoking and drinking, which are worse ways of dealing with stress. These things sometimes lead college students to become depressed. Sometimes the multitude of life’s changes that occur during your college years can trigger serious depression.



The college atmosphere can be detrimental to someone dealing with depression because social life revolves around “keggers”, parties and going to bars. Because alcohol is a depressant, it only deepens the depression and hides its symptoms. When college students first became depressed, they tend to spend their weekends drinking. It consumes them throughout the week as they “suffer” through classes they have signed up for, when Sunday evenings came around and the weekend is typically over, and the depression comes back as it once did, or in some cases it comes back worse then before.



According to a study done in 2003 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, alcohol-dependent individuals are almost 4 times more likely to have a major depressive disorder than those who are not dependent. The study also found that alcohol abuse was more common among students who had been diagnosed with depression than among those who had not. Alcohol and some drugs are very desirable to college students because it gets rid of the anxiety and stress of what they are doing in college. But most do not know that once the effects of these drugs disappear the depression comes back and they’re only left with that until they get their next drink or their next hit. But sometimes it’s just not enough to keep them from committing suicide.



Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. And the number one cause of suicide for college student suicides as well as suicides in general is untreated depression. Going to college can be a difficult transition period in which students may feel lost, lonely, confused, anxious, inadequate, and stressed. And these problems may lead to depression. And again, untreated depression is the number one cause for suicide.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Brea Quelhorst

Sophmore at Bluffton University

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Julian Sanders-Watkins

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Oliva Rose

First Year at Bluffton Univerisy

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Ramseyer Residential Advisor

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Diversity: Suicidal Survival


College dormitories are small versions of apartments. Late nights, long hours of studying and a group of people with various amounts of stress and pressure. Students with suicidal tendencies have to meet wtih a councilor and if a councilor proves they are suicidal they often are nto permitted to stay on campus.

Suicidal students' staying on campus creates a liability for the college. Liabilities are very strong, and legal issues are avoided by colleges, and suggest that colleges are pushing any suspiciously suicidal students towards the advisor.

A student from University of Texas San Antonio states, “if being banished from the dorms for multiple suicide attempts or actions and being forced into meetings with the councilors, then when you shall not get any students at all to open up. Your number of campus suicides will increase because of the rebellion and secrecy of new depression.”

While students are wondering what is good for them as a school they forgetting their basic need is to help those of any student at any time. But it out to allow for an education to be given and diversify its students rather than restrain and constrict the minds of our future, minds that could assist others in order to pursue a greater future. VIDEO
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Three Steps Against Suicide


Fraternities, sororities, social groups, and athletic groups are the subcultures and even the reason for a double in college suicides since 1950s, according to Suicide Statistics. Subcultures that have tormented, corrupted, and simply ignored students, sending them into depression and possibly to their death, while other nation numbers decrease.

College students from all across the United States are being forced into submission in order to fit the social hierarchy. Student from these subcultures have formed brutal hazing, humiliations, and extreme alcohol and substance abuse across college kids of all ages.

“If not accepted students feel as if they have failed and have no reason left to live, their family legacy will die with them,” said a masters student of Muskingum University.

According to a Miami University student a group of basketball players went down to Florida for after their graduation. It was then under the pressure to drink under age, that a student proceeded to jump off a sixth story hotel to avoid cops, jumping to his death.


The pressure from being accepted but loosing scholarships lead one man to his death, with many others to following in his trail. The hazing, tormenting and substance abuse were struggles to be accepted, and acceptance which would make students' way through college.

College is a time in which you grow as a person, experience new things, gain an education and prepare for the workforce. For those 10 college kids who died today because of suicide, they no longer are able to hold the pressures of the subcultures; the hazing, and constant substance abuse have left many families in tears.

Countries from various places around the world without these vast suicide numbers lack the subcultures humiliation but enforce a trust, acceptance, and strong religious faith. Three simple steps that save 3971 people’s lives a year from suicide.
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Coed Dorms for College Campuses


Campuses are full of all girls’ dorms, which cause extra stress for students and leads to depression symptoms and suicidal thoughts throughout a school year. This situation can be avoided with the combination of genders in a coed dorm allowing for more opportunities of personal growth for the members of the college community.
Putting a group of females together can be best said by a first year student living in an all girls dorm, whom we will call Barb: “that many girls in one dorm equals a lot of stress, drama and in the end will lead to many students’ with suicidal thoughts and depression symptoms.” An increase in levels of stress will make a noticeable decrease in the student’s work ethic and grades, according to depression statistics.
The problem of lower class averages could be solved simply by the adjustment of the students' living situations; placing students in a more diverse atmosphere allows them to find their place on campus. If colleges would like to see future representatives and teachers achieving the best of their capabilities, then coed dorms can be the next simple explanation.
Junior Katie has noticed from living in both coed and an all girls dorm that “the all girls dorm was much more stressful, not only for the drama but the constant competition with each other. Living in a coed dorm it allowed her to reach out and meet people in her major and on campus.” The lives of students living on campus are affected by their living situations.
Coed dorms can be and will be a simple problem solver for lowering stress, depression and suicid mostly for girls throughout campus. It will help increase grades throughout year and help guide our future representatives and educators of our students to their greatest potential.

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Stress or Greater Community


Stress, depression, and suicide are very important, for they bring you down and affect the level of production for present and future operations in your community. College is known for the pressure of school and working. It is crucial that college students make it through college and this high stress time with the most knowledge; if not, the results could affect our communities in the future and their place in our great nation.
The start of these things is from the tension caused by college and the work expected to be done by students. High levels of tension cause students to experience high levels of stress, depression and in worst case scenario suicide for students of all ages. A community is a big extended family caring for all members, whether it is a student, adult or child they are a part of a greater community.
“Stress is considered bad on all levels. We all encounter it and have to find ways to deal with it,” says Chrissie, a soon to be graduate of Bluffton University. A community with high levels of stress will see a decrease in community activity and support.
Depression is strongly related to stress. When students get stressed, they start to feel depression symptoms such as fatigue, hair loss, rejection from everyone and change in appetite. In order for our community to get better, we need to be concerned about everybody’s well being, including the stressed, lonely and even depressed students.
Suicide is the result of stress and depression. It is such a sad thing when someone doesn’t view their life worthy to live anymore. A single person can be said by members of a small community as “a link to a strong chain without one link our community isn’t as strong,” from a student of Bluffton University, known as Jane. Video
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