Mental health among young people has been worsening for years. COVID-19, economic woes and racial injustices could make it worse still.
As the president of the Harvard Student Mental Health Liaisons, she has"college friends, acquaintances, and strangers reach out to me for resources and advice," she said."I don't know the answers anymore."Prevalence of depression among college students
Roughly 48,000 people in the U.S. died by suicide in 2018, with the rate increasing 35% since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among ages 10 to 19, after accidents. Class schedules and extracurriculars provided stability, said Boit, who has Borderline Personality Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But when classes became pre-recorded and time zones made connecting more complicated, motivation to seek help dropped.
But a vast majority of older adults say they find preventive measures, such as face masks, reassuring. Gen Z adults were least likely to say it was reassuring . Gen Z was also most likely to find these measures stressful , according to theRothman attributes Gen Z's mental health challenges to the idea that "this is their first 'where were you when' moments in their lifetime and they’ve had to adapt their lives to meet the restrictions of this pandemic.
Anushe Engineer, a junior at Scripps College in California, said part of the reason she and her peers are struggling right now is that"college students are gearing up for jobs and employment and getting out into the 'real world'" but that that real world isn't ready for them yet, which causes a lot of anxiety.
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