Report Suggests There is a Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses

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Report Suggests There is a Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses
 
Posted by Mike LaChance      Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 10:00am

“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.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/report-suggests-there-is-a-mental-health-crisis-on-college-campuses/

[mountaineer]

We're seeing extremely immature college students who can't handle much of anything.

[Sanguine]

We're seeing extremely immature college students who can't handle much of anything.

Yes, that and pathologicalization of fairly normal behaviors.

[mountaineer]

Yes, that and pathologicalization of fairly normal behaviors.

Mr. M can tell horror stories of what went on in the dorms at the college where he used to work. They frequently involved homosexual and trans kids having mental breakdowns, smearing feces on the walls or violently assaulting other people.