Saturday, January 7, 2012

College suicide: Second-leading cause of student death hits home in Southwest Florida

College suicide: Second-leading cause of student death hits home in Southwest Florida

"The most prevalent issue for us is anxiety," Brunner said. "Depression can certainly have some bad consequences. But, if we look at the diagnosis, we find a lot more students who have high levels of anxiety."

Whatever the cause, statistics show suicide is on the minds of vast numbers of college-age people.

In a 2008 survey of 26,000 undergraduate students by the American Psychological Association, one-half of students said they had considered suicide at some point in their lives.

NAPLENEWS.COM

TONY DIGIROLAMO- ANTIDEPRESSANTS DON' HELP ANXIETY IT MAKES IT WORSE.

DR ANN BLAKE-TRACY: My comment on this excellent article: Thank you for boldly addressing a national holocaust on our college campuses! I was discussing this just yesterday with a doctor who called to let me know that four years after his son's antidepressant-induced nightmare he thought his son might be returning to a normal life. In spite of the FDA Black Box Warning on antidepressants of INCREASED suicidal ideation (compulsions) in those under 25 college health centers continue to push these highly addictive & dangerous drugs to this age group. These senseless deaths need to end! Our database of tragedies is much too large already! Google ssristories to see what I mean....


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