Why are People so Depressed in College?

[Koolay]

Well, given that 50% of kids (I'm exaggerating, maybe-- I don't know the actual number) who don't have a burning desire to study in Grade 1 are diagnosed with ADHD, and that almost every teenager who feels less than chipper for more than a week is put on Prozac or another antidepressant, this is hardly surprising.

Yeah, it's pretty horrific any way you look at it. Drugging children for non compliance with the state's 'education' system is chillingly similar to how they treated soviet dissidents.

My kids showed signs of ADHD for a while. Then I told them I'd take away their phones, declare all junk and snack foods forbidden, and "help" them study (i.e. by sitting there next to them). Thank Jeebus, now they're fine!

Oh really? that's good. I don't think it was the phone thing, but more time spent with parents shows almost universally positive effects.

Now, I know that some boys just can't sit down and study. That's fine. They're aren't defective-- they're boys. We shouldn't plan for them to be brain surgeons-- we should start training them how to fix cars, or to box professionally.

Or better yet, ask them what they want to do and go from there

Also, how is this philosophy?

Although a conversation on how the brain works and such is interesting, a philosophically grounded discussion on why college students have so much anxiety I think would provide more of a solution and conversation.