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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.

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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