"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.
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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