I see this increase more as a result of over-diagnosing and pharmaceutical lobbying than any actual change in societal health. Clinical depression is a serious problem - but diagnosing and medicating any sort of depression just seems to trivialize the issue. Getting depressed sometimes is to be expected - especially when some major life changes are going on, such as being in college.
Wow, Koolay blames the state. Shocker.
They are anxious because they have just left everything they've known and come to this new and unfamiliar place where they face a ton of new responsibilities and an uncertain future. My solution: get over it. Make new friends, learn new things. Enjoy this brief period of independence while it lasts. And don't use depression as an excuse for being lazy.
(July 17, 2013 at 8:06 pm)Koolay Wrote: 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.
Wow, Koolay blames the state. Shocker.
(July 17, 2013 at 8:06 pm)Koolay Wrote: 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.
They are anxious because they have just left everything they've known and come to this new and unfamiliar place where they face a ton of new responsibilities and an uncertain future. My solution: get over it. Make new friends, learn new things. Enjoy this brief period of independence while it lasts. And don't use depression as an excuse for being lazy.
