Why are People so Depressed in College?

[bennyboy]

When I attended university the first time after high school, I ended up having something like a nervous breakdown and ended up stopping school for the next semester, so I can definitely empathize with having a hard time adjusting to college.

Heh, my sporadic inattentiveness and out-there-ness has gotten to the point where my Mom is going to take me to get "checked on" to see if there's something wrong with me.

Probably just need a big steak, early nights to bed, and a regular bowel movement, and you'll be fine.

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I hate when people use depression as a label. "I have depression" just doesn't register in my brain. It's dumb.

It's just easier to get diagnosed these days. I don't think youths are any more depressed on average than 10 years ago. Maybe somewhat, since society keeps getting more and more unnatural for our paleomammalian complex and our reptilian complex to function in, which is going to -and is - fucking people up.

I was borderline suicidal when I was a teenager. The solution? 1) a lecture from Dad about how it's a normal phase, and just wait; 2) make friends, go to parties, try to get laid, and otherwise distract myself from how horrible my existence was; 3) realize that if you have friends, go to parties, and sometimes get laid, existence is pretty good.

Prozac would have cut down on that "sexy edginess" that teen boys have that ALLOWS them to occasionally get laid.