Fifty percent of university students suffer from clinical anxiety with more than one in 10 suffering from clinical depression, with the percentage only rising alarmingly on college campuses. This statistics is revealed by the UK-based Mental Health Foundation.
This is majorly prevailed in the western countries, with high work-pressure and insecurities rising from professionalism and cut-throat competition.
To add to the crisis, more than half of these students suffering significantly from anxiety or depression do not seek help.
This disappointing situation, in which mental health service is not accessed by depressed students is revealed by a Web-based survey conducted by Daniel Eisenberg, assistant professor at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Public Health.
This is, in brief, what the survey found:
• Anywhere from 37 to 84 percent of students didn’t seek disorder-depending treatment.
• 72 percent of students with major depression acknowledged their need for help to handle their mental health.
• Overall, only about 10 percent of students surveyed are found to have received therapy.
• And, only 10 percent of surveyed students are found to have taken some type of psychotropic drug.
Though disappointed with the prevailing scenario, but optimistic for the future, Eisenberg said,
Often college student mental health is framed as a problem on the rise. One can also think of it as a unique opportunity because college campuses offer several ways to reach students and affect their lives positively.
Ah! Here is a better opportunity for students to take assistance to curb their growing depression. The University of Michigan has developed a mental health assessment instrument to be used by a US national network of counseling centers to host a ‘Depression on College Campuses’ conference annually.
It has conducted a stigma reduction campaign called “Real Men, Real Depression.” To read more about it, visit here...
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