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I’m a college freshman struggling with emotional and social issues. It’s problematic, to say the least, but it sounds like I’m not really actually outside of normal. A very popular article recently in the New York Times (“Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges”) examined the growing need for mental health care on college campuses. They attribute the need to a rising student population and students entering college who in the past would have been precluded due to their problems. But that’s not the whole story. There’s an article on Slate called “It’s Not the Job Market”, which tries to discover American college students’ sources of stress. Drawing on the NYT article and common assumptions (that it is the job market), as well as a recently published study from UCLA, the author makes a convincing case that young people today are simply under an enormous amount of stress because we’ve got too little community, too much information, and no way to deal with our negative emotions. I have to agree. I guess it’s just trying to convince myself that I’m not and won’t be a failure, even if I do in fact fail, but isn’t this ridiculous news? Let me quote the article: “As psychologist Robert Leahy points out: ‘The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s.” I don’t know if there’s a quantifiable way to measure anxiety, but whaaat?<\/i>
\nDrawing on more personal experience, I have friends who have already decided that they’ll be going to grad school because they don’t know what they want to do and are convinced that there are no jobs in their majors. I also have very little perspective, but it sounds like this wasn’t common way back in history, like, 50 years ago.
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