Depression is one of the first reasons students drop out of school. During college, students come across many challenges and sometimes students do not know how to overcome them and they fall into depression. Depression can be shown in many different ways for example lack of eating, insomnia, thoughts of suicide and many others.
According to an article written by Michael Kerr in 2012, 44 percent of American college students have symptoms of depression. Most of the time this signs and symptoms will led students to many bad behaviors such as:
Alcohol use
Smoke marijuana
Sexual behaviors
Suicide
Nowadays, there has been a rise in students who feel depressed. According to a nationwide survey, "The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014," found that thee was an increase in depressed students with a 6.1 percent. From 150,000 students that participated in the nationwide survey a 9.5 percent resulted with feelings of depression since they started going to college.
Sometimes, students will focus more in school and studying other than socializing with classmates and other people. School has always been an expensive, but worth it decision, which can cause futures better. By getting a degree a person can be able to get a better job, and by getting a better job a person will have a better economic life. But, in order to do all this, a person needs to pay their education. Nowadays students are getting many school loans to pay their school expenses and there is no income to pay debts from loans.
The fact that a college student has many economic problems and many debts can cause them depression. Students, just like anyone else, can suffer from depression by living a major event such as:
Moving out/in
New changes
Inadequate sleep
Academic pressure
and over all the transition to college life.
Depression in more likely to be shown in female students, there is a ten percent higher chance of expecting depressive symptoms. Female college students tent to be more heavily socialized concerned about others and in making new relationship with others.
Unlike women, male students tend to be more accurate in healthy and body expectations and they tend to relay more in educational achievements.
Nowadays, there has been a rise in students who feel depressed. According to a nationwide survey, "The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014," found that thee was an increase in depressed students with a 6.1 percent. From 150,000 students that participated in the nationwide survey a 9.5 percent resulted with feelings of depression since they started going to college.
Sometimes, students will focus more in school and studying other than socializing with classmates and other people. School has always been an expensive, but worth it decision, which can cause futures better. By getting a degree a person can be able to get a better job, and by getting a better job a person will have a better economic life. But, in order to do all this, a person needs to pay their education. Nowadays students are getting many school loans to pay their school expenses and there is no income to pay debts from loans.
The fact that a college student has many economic problems and many debts can cause them depression. Students, just like anyone else, can suffer from depression by living a major event such as:
Moving out/in
New changes
Inadequate sleep
Academic pressure
and over all the transition to college life.
Depression in more likely to be shown in female students, there is a ten percent higher chance of expecting depressive symptoms. Female college students tent to be more heavily socialized concerned about others and in making new relationship with others.
Unlike women, male students tend to be more accurate in healthy and body expectations and they tend to relay more in educational achievements.
WORK CITED
Keith Tiana."Depression and its Negative Effect on College Students." East Carolina University, Vol 9, 2014. Web.
Schwarz Alan. "More College Freshmen Report Having Felt Depressed". The New York Times, Education. Feb 5, 2015. Web.
Novatney Amy. "Students under pressure". American Pshycological Association. Apa.org. Sep 2014. Vol 45. Web.
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