Mental Health Issues among University Students

A rapid pace of education affects many areas of students’ life including physical and mental health, academic performances, college experience, and the mutual formed relations of their surroundings. We can’t estimate which instance deeply penetrate and become long term consequences for students. According to a recently published science journal, one-fifth (20.3%) of college students had 12-month DSM-IV/CIDI disorders or mental health issue.  Most terrifying statistics suggest 80% of students of the college have been suffering from a serious lack of attention in the classrooms. Many mental disorders emerge in early adulthood which collapses with the time period of the university. This is the time for students to decide more or less course of their life and career prospect come to light in future. A mental health problem causes fluctuation students’ energy level, optimism, and thwart his/her performances.  Although effective treatment address to these enervative issues but only a minority section with mental disorder obtain treatment.

Longitudinal data collection of mental health issue related UK students explore the prevalence of mental disorders, adverse consequences, and pattern of help-seeking for mental disorder and its treatment. These data reveal that most of the miss happening occurs among students due to the increasing level of anxiety or depression. Being a part of distinct stressful events, students exaggerate suicide or participate in wrongdoing. Online betting is a fast-growing trend and considered fashionable and hip among young adults in the UK. In fact, according to the National Union of Students about 59% of University students have gambled within the last year. The financial burden supports oneself to do gambling at least once to perceive instant capital. 2013 survey of college students found that 53% of women and 40% of male reported experiencing overwhelming anxiety.  Data clearly suggest that this situation is worsening now.

Reasons for depression in college students-

A large number of dynamics add to the mental development of college students. Inadequate nourishment, harmful sexual life, lack of rest and sleep, and disturb lifestyles cause mental health disorders. Here we are addressing illustration of serious mental illness among students facing college students nowadays-

·         The root cause of mental illness is discipline or sheltered college life. Doing best all of the time during academic years pressurize students. To fit in their new surrounding they modify their individuality and build new personality on their own which causes nothing but low self-esteem. Since most of the students have not acquired cognitive maturity, continuously trying and susceptibility causes mental illness.

·         Alcohol abuse and drug dependence can both result in an outrun of the depression, anxiety and stress. A Drowning and car accident among students has been escalated in the last few years. For a few students, what starts as a social tradition can be time served addiction. Consequently, they confront deterioration of physical appearance, prone to suspicious behavior and feels fear and anxiety with no reason.

·         Diverse families and the gap between parents and children give their young children a reason to approach intercourse. When parents are not supposed to be what they are or they try to be authoritarian or dominating, then children more like college students do anything behind their back. A few times anonym’s intercourse happened between young children when they were drunk. An unrestricted and free relationship escalated both physically and mentally disorder like HIV, Gonorrhea, stress, anxiety, panic attack, syphilis etc.

·         Willingness to becoming financial independent face complication during their college life. The reform themselves to fit in the new surroundings during cognitive maturity. Lack of ness of information on various resources and meeting of diverse people often leads to mental health problems.

Methods to prevent mental health issue by Educational Institutes

As the tradition is evolving and social anxiety approaches students’ life, it is better to contact a mental health counsellor in a possible time. Instead of visiting a medical practitioner, students try to treat mental health issue with alcohol consumption, drug inhaling, intercourse, and by doing gambling. These demonic things lead nothing but worsening situation even more. UK universities provide Counselling and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to explore underlying issues among college students. Many of them successfully organize awareness of mental health concern. Some campuses have special purpose centres of therapy where students can talk about their fears in order to find some solution or at least some temporary respite.

Following the UN’s recommendation a positive result coming from universities, that runs medical therapy for their students. It should be a minor step for all the universities so uplighting of rising student’ mental health problem will detect and treat as soon as possible. The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) hosts a handy geographical locator for DBSA support groups all over the United State campus. Those students who suffer from either anxiety or depression are benefitted by these services. A few recover their mental health problem at a great extent. Thus it is up to leaders, universities authority, or institution to pool their resources and bring the best policies that can help mentally disturbed students. Afterwards, they will be able to form a mentally fit young generation.