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Introduction

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

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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