1 in 4 college students have a mental health diagnosis (not including liberalism)

BOSTON -- A new study out of Brigham and Women's Hospital in "Beantown" found that a significant number of college students are diagnosed with a mental health condition in the past year, and one fifth of them have had suicidal thoughts. Not surprisingly, their professors have all been diagnosed with the mental disease known as socialism and are not being treated for it in Venezuela where the treatment has shown remarkable results.

For some college students, the four years spent in academia will be the best four years of their lives, but for others who have led coddled, leftist lives, where only the basement was their "safe space," and the bathroom their sanctuary, college can bring about the stress of being responsible for one's own behavior and effort.

Researchers surveyed 67,308 students across 108 US colleges and universities during the spring of 2015. [West Point and the US Naval Academy were not among the schools participating in the survey because it would have skewed the results to a healthier result.]

Students were questioned on the frequency of stressful events, [making their bed, for example], depression or anxiety in their daily lives. They also had to report whether or not they had been diagnosed with a mental health condition [being a Democrat didn't count], in the past year. Stressful events were defined as anything they viewed as traumatic or difficult to handle, whether academic or personal [not including Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election]. Specifically, triggering events included financial struggles, family problems, sleeping difficulty, self-esteem issues, or health matters.

Students were also asked if they had any suicidal thoughts or attempted to take their own lives, or if they tried any other form of self-harm [not including considering voting for a democratic socialist].

The results showed a high rate of mental health issues and a significant risk for suicidal thoughts among all students, especially those who cried when Hillary Clinton loss to Donald Trump, as previously mentioned. The most prone to mental health issues were minorities, whether it be racial, sexual, or gender [transgender people have a 41 percent risk of suicide in their lifetime whether they are pressured for the genital mutilation they volunteered for, or if accepted by the public for their mental illness].

Evidently, the researchers did not include transgender students of having pre-existing mental illness, which would skew the results in the positive direction.

"Colleges and family members who are sending students off to college need to remember that this is a phase of life where young people are confronted with expectations from new relationships and living situations and other encounters that are stressful" [not to mention drugs and alcohol], wrote lead researcher Dr. Cindy Liu of the Departments of Pediatric Newborn Medicine and Psychiatry at BWH.

It was found that 75 percent of students dealt with at least one stressful event in the past year, while one in five reported at least six stressful events in the same period. Since the events were subjectively defined by students, a lack of the study's design seems to exist and perhaps the results should be considered anecdotal to some degree.

However, of significance was that even subjective stressful events were linked to greater risk for mental health diagnoses, self-harm, and suicide [which is baked into the cake for transgender people].

One if four students was diagnosed with a condition and one in five considered taking their own life. Almost ten percent admitted to attempting suicide, and nearly twenty percent had committed self-harm of some form.

"Some stressful events cannot be prevented and, in some cases, are completely normal. But for others, a plan should be in place for family, friends, and colleges to provide support," Liu said. "Our study highlights an urgent need to help students reduce their experience of overwhelming levels of stress during college."

Sexual minorities had the highest rates of mental health diagnoses coupled with self-harm and suicidal thoughts or actions. But transgenders [previously mentioned] showed the highest rates over all outcomes. Sixty-six percent of transgender students admitted to self-harm! Over one third have attempted suicide!

You can find a copy of the abstract of the study here.


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