Sophmore at Bluffton University
Friday, April 23, 2010
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
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.
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.
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
Stress the New Epidemic
College students are constantly being put under stress of everyday life, from the changes in economical standings to their living situations. This stress affects not only their everyday lives, education and their future but also their personal health.
If college students do not learn the value of controlling their stress it can lead to affect their memory and learning. Students being able recognize at signs of stress such as general irritability, headaches, not being able to sleep, pain in the neck and lower back, change in appetite, change in sleep pattern, indigestion and many more will allow for our population to keep growing rather than declining due to suicide from stress in college kids.
Currently stress is one of the main causes for depression and suicide on college campuses. With 10 percent of college kids admitting to suicidal thoughts, this is becoming a growing concern for family members, colleges, and students themselves. As colleges educating our future politicians and generations of our nation, it is valuable that we learn as a society the signs of stress and how to avoid stress in our everyday life, not only for students’ future but the future of our nation.Video
New Findings: Stress
Fifty years ago Stress would have been the main title of a newspaper after president of the American Physiological Society Walter Bradford Cannon established the definition of stress while working towards his “fight or flight” idea.
Born in Wisconsin in 1871, Walter Bradford Cannon was ahead of times, predicting what has become an epidemic of stress. Going to school in the top educational systems such as Harvard University it is not shocking to find out that he would alter graduate college in 1900 to get his medical degree. With this medical degree, he was able to start on research, working with the “fight or flight” and animals responses to threats. It was from his research in this area that he founded the basis of stress.
His research has lead many scholars towards working with stress in different situations from work to school where they would soon find the effects of stress and usage of many drugs in order to lower stress levels, depression rates and suicide that would soon be the newest epidemic of the college life. Without Walter Bradford Cannon, those days when your back kills and you can’t sleep at night would be a reason for doctor visits rather than a relaxation time.
Stress from Past to Present
Walter Bradford Cannon is the founder of stress back in the early 1900’s. After looking into a “fight or flight” theory, he was able to find stress within animals and soon put his findings towards society.
Throughout the years, stress has been handled in a many different ways. Whether it is from drinking Coca Cola or eating ice cream to taking medications over the years, it has become an epidemic.
Past college students didn’t have to worry about stress in the work force or college, if they made it that far in life. College was more of an accomplishment rather than a necessity. With today’s job market looking tighter and tighter, it increases the stress on college students to perform better in school, also increasing the stress level, depression rate, and suicidal deaths. If you look at back into history, you will notice that our past is not full of suicides and depression rates, yet over the years this has become an over whelming epidemic. This epidemic started with the pressure on college kids to do well in school and has escalated to the point of death rates increasing in college kids, due to the incredible amount of stress and pressure applied to them on a daily basis.
Suicidal Broken Bridges
College- the Bridge between puberty and life, the point in time student’s level of stress from classes increase causing depression number rise with the everlasting push of families, and suicide becomes a more legitimate option affecting the future.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in college students, mostly due to stress from college, taking the lives of 10 people today and the 3971 people a year according to U.S. Suicide Statistics.
An increase in numbers of suicides is also shown in an increase in stress level. In colleges around the nation you see a various amount of stress towards the college students and their educational sources. According to a freshman at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD her stress levels nearly doubled in the transition from high school, at 4 out of 10, to college, to an 8 out of 10.
Students from Augustana College, North Carolina Central University and Bluffton University notice that with an increase in stress they begin to develop mood swings, irritability and other symptoms of depression.
Depression numbers are increasing from the constant push from families to succeed, or the push from teachers to focus time on their subject is leading students to one option, suicide.
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