Success is what the majority of every college student hopes and aims for throughout their entire college career. College success and education often determines how the rest of a student’s life will be. Therefore, there is an immense amount of pressure involved when it comes to going to college and students tend to get extremely overwhelmed. In order to have a successful career and transition into college, one must maintain a healthy state of mental health. Mental health can be negative or positive and there are numerous amounts of ways to help students with their mental health overall. Mental health is the state of mind an individual has and it involves ones physical health and emotions. Mental health in college is immensely important, yet extremely hard to maintain. Transitioning into college involves leaving families and friends behind, receiving more homework, living in a new area and living space with someone else, trying to balance school, work and a social life, and trying to find time to just relax and take a break. For some, the transition into college is simple and easy to do. For others, the transition into college can be scary and hard to cope with. Physically, college students either gain more weight, due to the amount of food available, or they lose too much weight, due to stress or just not enough time in the day to take a break. Also, college students tend to not have as much time as they used to for exercise which can prove to be unhealthy and can add to
Getting from College to Career is written by Lindsey Pollak, who is a New York Times bestselling author. She is widely recognized as a millennial workplace expert who has audiences from over 200 corporations, conferences and universities. Her advice and opinions have appeared in numerous media outlets, showing her credibility in giving workplace and career advice to the next generation. (Ceniza-Levine, 2014) This book is beneficial for students who feel lost about their future and are afraid of graduating from college, just like me. “Real failure comes from never trying something in the first place” (Pollak, 2012) This is an essential piece of advice for the young generation who are afraid to take the first step as they fear failure, and it also resonates with me. I am afraid of being rejected and getting
The top 4 mental health issues facing college students are depression, anxiety, suicide, and eating disorders. Depression is a huge problem with college students mainly because depression is linked to and leads to suicide. If one and three college students are depressed that's 33% of students who are on a pathway to suicide. Anxiety is one of the main problems because
Stress is known for occurring during the overwhelming times throughout students’ university experience. There are three major elements that students face in university that reinforce each other and lead to stress. These three connected experiences can lead to them developing a mental illness if the stress becomes long-term. Firstly, when the academic pressure and work-load for students rises when they come to university, they will feel stressed. Secondly, since university is expensive, it may be very stressful for students to pay for tuition and living costs. Lastly, students who are starting university will face a lack of family support systems, difficulty finding friends, and difficulty leaving home which will lead to them feeling stressed. Stress based on these three factors may have a significant impact on their mental health and academic success.
College represents a form of higher learning. For many, it is also a time for personal growth as we transition into adulthood. This in itself is a stressful situation as one must make drastic adjustments to a new role, environment, and demands. Stress is a major contributor to the development of mental and emotional issues (Rodgers, L., Tennison, L. 2009). Research has been done to determine the impact of depression and anxiety on university students. It has been
College is the time when humans can be sculpted to fit the needs of the society around them or when we as a student can discover who we are and break out of any societal mold. This is a tumultuous period and our mental wellness can be tested over and over again. There are many aspects of mental wellness, but some of the main points are Intellectual, Spiritual, and Emotional. Which aspect of the mental wellness is most important and affects us the most?
All nine participants had parents who were heavily involved in the high school to college transition process. Every parent played some role while students are in the process of earning a four year degree. The finding of this research study indicated that the students encountered different levels of parental involvement throughout the transition process. Some parents were more involved in their child’s high school academic endeavors than other students. Nonetheless, all participants felt supported by their guardians and believes their parents continued to show some support with college decision-making. The Social Support Scale shows that each participant share a close relationship with their family and continues to seek advice when needed. All
The biggest challenges from transitioning from college life to the real world will be realizing that you are on your own. Even though you may have friends and family to motivate and help you, no one can do what you can do for yourself. When you're in college, you experience a bit of the real world. You meet all types of people that have different beliefs and traditions. In college, you begin to understand more about who you are and what you want. But you have to know the difference between your wants and needs. Your wants could be mistaken for your needs. Best way to get through college without going completely insane is managing your time and work. You have to relax and breathe. Although it's fun to spend time with friends and share some laughs and conversations, it can cause a problem if you are choosing those times over choosing to do your work, read or something do productive to change your life for the best. If you write a routine and follow through it, you will begin to notice a change in your life. Exercise more and eat healthy to cleanse your body. Scientist have
College is a time in which people are first discovering who they are, and what they would like to do with the rest of their lives. It is a point where for the first time in these young adults’ lives they are living on their own and actively making their own life decisions. These young adults are thrown into a world that seems so foreign to anything they have known, and so many new things are thrown their way that they just have to decide and do. The sudden newness of it all can cause many stressors amongst a wide margin of students who attend college. This new found stress may begin to gradually increase over time, which then leads to many college students developing depression. The depression experienced more often than not goes
am writing to you today because our colleges and universities across the country are faced with a major problem. The number of depressed students is increasing. These students are not able to get the help they deserve, and more importantly need. These institutions are not properly equipped to handle this problem adequately. Out of 8,500 students that participated in the study, only 22% of them received minimally adequate care, defined as “at least two months of antidepressant use plus at least three follow up visits to discuss medication or at least seven mental health-related counseling sessions” (DeBenedette, 2012). Mental health is an integral part of our day to day lives. When our mind cannot function properly, we cannot live our lives
Going to college is a new chapter in a student’s young life. They will face greater academic demands, financial responsibilities, exposure to new people, and being on their own in a new environment. Someone that already has difficulty dealing with the daily stresses of life may become overwhelmed with new challenges and become depressed. People who have problems with depression have both mental and physical symptoms (Frye, 1942). Some mental symptoms that a person may carry include guilt, low self-esteem, and feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy (NMHA, 2001). The physical symptoms include over eating as well as not eating enough food. Someone may also have problems with sleeping and may find it difficult
These are questions that have plagued me during my whole time in college. What career path do I want to follow? Where do I want to be in in six years? How do I get there to begin with? What are ways for me to get contacts and network in the field of my choosing? In what field do I want my career to develop? Those are all questions that I have sought to answer during the writing of this paper. Therefore, let’s start by discussing what my current goals are, first graduating from college is the number one priority. Thereafter, I will like to apply for a job in either recreation or parks. Even though this seems like a career path slightly different from what my current major of sports management and recreation, there are a plethora of ways in which they are interconnected.
A variety of factors impact the academic performance of first-year college students, some of which affect the undergraduate majorly and are disregarded by the student. Although these factors are components of a new change while transitioning to a college or university, students are not able to see the importance and how each one is increasing the amount of stress. Psychopathology is the study of mental disorders, the causes and effects of each disorder and health consequences it leads to. The start of a new lifestyle influences the lives of undergraduate students undergoing anxiety, as they face separation from loved ones, experience constant change in personality and are economically unstable.
Many college students in the modern world are under a lot of stress from the world around them. This stress that they are experiencing can cause some mental health issues. There are many factors that contribute to the stress and mental health problems of college students. One factor is the students are in college away from the usual parental guidance that has overshadowed them the past 17-18 years of their lives. These students are now experiencing the weight of the world on their shoulders and feel the stress of how they are ever going to be able to make their life work out. Another factor is that students are now feeling the financial burden that is created while in college. Students are now working to pay for not only college but also everyday life. This is something that many students have not been used to in the past couple of years. There is also a lot of pressure on the students in college by their family and society to be successful in whatever they enter into while in college. People are expecting the students to come out and be able to make a lot of money right off the bat. The family entity itself can cause stress for the student that is away at college. For example, while away at college, a student finds out that his/her parents decided to get divorced. This can cause a lot of stress and anxiety on the student. This can then lead them to slumping into depression, and worrying so much that they are not able to perform the way that they need to to be successful
This are questions that have plagued me during my whole time in college. What career path do I want to follow? Where do I want to be in in six years? How do I get there to begin with? What are ways for me to get contacts and network in the field of my choosing? In what field do I want my career to developed? Those are all questions that I have seek to answer during the writing of this paper. Therefore, let’s start by discussing what my current goals are, first graduating from college is the number one priority. Thereafter, I will like to apply for a job in either recreation or parks. Even though this seems like a career path slightly different from what my current major of sports management and recreation, there are a plethora of ways in which they are interconnected.
Besides the rate of psychiatric disorder, it is important to look at the type of diagnosed illness of young adults. When thinking about college life, many adults point to certain illnesses and factors that are synonymous with higher education. According to Dr. Richard Kadison and Theresa DiGeronimo in their book College of the Overwhelmed, 85% of college students report feeling stressed, and 30% of students seeking counseling cited “Academic Concern” as their chief complaint; however, neither of these are diagnosed medical problems, only complaints. These statistics fuel the stereotype that college students suffer mainly from stress and anxiety disorders. While this has some validity, Blanco et al.’s study shows that the most prevalent diagnosed illnesses were