Relation To Student Suicide

The mental stability of college students has dropped to a staggering low, so low that 1 in 4 college students have reported that the have had suicidal thoughts and actions. That's just the amount that have reported that they are feeling suicidal. So many college students struggle with mental illness and receive no help or guidance in curing and dealing with their illnesses.

Mental health among college students has been proven to be a relevant social issue that our society faces. There are certainly a few different institutions that play a large role within the development of this social issue. The first institution, and the primary institution at play with this issue, is the higher education system. In terms of mental health and having access to resources, college students haven’t always been as lucky as they are today. One study in 2007 explains the story of Junior at Syracuse University (Kravets, 3081). Anita Rutman had a history of mental health issues; she even found herself being admitted to a mental health hospital. One morning in February, she threw herself off of the eighth floor of Boland Hall and landed on a patio and fortunately lived. However, her attempt stemmed from the university sending her letter three days prior that informed Anita that the school was planning to dismiss her because of her suicidal tendencies (Kravets, 3081). Anita later sued Syracuse for ten million dollars for malpractice and negligence in handling her condition.

Depression, anxiety, and suicide are relatively common phenomena among college students (Klerman & Weissman, 1989; Twenge et al., 2010).

Suicide is the final part of the chain and with the information that has been shown, statistically, the more a student continues to fight in their education, the more likely they are to take their lives away. Cris Brownson and all the other authors, write about suicide within college students in “Distress and Suicidality in Higher Education: Implications for Population-Oriented Prevention Paradigms.” Suicide is second most common death within college students according to this paper and the authors want to know why this is to explain to the audience the type of problems college students typically go through. A bunch of students from University of Texas Austin were sampled to find out about their mental health history and found that a 26% of students have considered suicide at least once in their lives, 22% of undergraduate and 18% of graduate students have seriously considered suicide, and 7% of undergraduates and 5% of graduate students have attempted suicide at least once in their lives. It was also reported that 73% of these students most stressful times were because of academic reason, which branch off to financial problems, school work, relationship problems, ect. It also shows that alcohol and drugs play a major role in suicide since students will try overdosing with alcohol and drugs to try to take away their own lives. It was originally

Bruni, from statistics, attempts to prove his point that students overstress when it comes to school. Bruni used evidence collected from a story by Julie Scelfo which presents that during a thirteen month period six students committed suicide while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Scelfo goes on to explain

The text Campus Crisis by Kate Lanau addresses a serious social problem that occurred at Cornell University in 2010, where some students committed suicide due to various psychological problems caused by various reasons, including family pressure, Simple case that caused these fatalities.

In the aftermath of a student suicide, I co-founded a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) chapter on campus. We soon encountered obstacles with both the Student Activities Board and Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CPS). We needed the Board’s approval to be recognized as a club. They initially denied our club application citing lack of student interest, but forbid us from holding interest meetings while we are not recognized. They only chartered our club after we submitted an online student petition with hundreds of signatures. The Board also initially denied NAMI funding to train and certify students as facilitators. They believed that peer facilitators were unnecessary as students on campus already have the Counseling and Psychiatric

I am currently a Student Nurse Ambassador for WSU College of Nursing, as well as the Senior class Treasurer and Secretary. As an ambassador we work with alumni, prospective students, and current students to better the nursing school and reach the community. Most recently, I helped with the new student orientation and took on the role of being a mentor for them. These roles have been such a blast to take on. In addition to these roles I am in the Honors College at WSU, I have been working on a thesis to submit as my final project. This thesis is on nurse’s assessment on suicide and the effectiveness of a suicide prevention and intervention training. As I complete my thesis, I will be working with nurses to assess their training.

Recently, universities of Canada and United States have been suffering from serious problems with their students. According to Lunau (2012) "Cornell University in New York was the site of six student suicides in 2010 and Ryerson University's mental health center in Toronto have seen a 200 percent increase of students in a crisis situation."

The researchers of this study examine the experiences with suicide among college students. Due to the lack of research of the understanding of college aged suicides at this time, researchers found it necessary to widen the scope in this area. It was discovered that rates of suicide were not officially recorded making it difficult to come up with a degree of suicidality in society. College suicides are further explained to be associated with the male to female gender ratio. Men who had few interactions with women while in college were recorded to have higher suicide rates than women which was then linked to the disproportionate number of unmarried individuals in universities. The study focuses on the thesis that suicide prevention would be

   Today a college education can overload students with too many stressful situations. Not only does Stress overload today's college students, but it is also the leading cause of personality disorders. In her essay, Cathy Bell explains that major depressive disorder strikes 5-12% of men and 10-20% of women; half of these people will have more than one occurrence and 15% of them will commit suicide ("Depression for the young"). For instance, many depressives are first recognized and treated during their years in college. For a large amount of people, depression exposes itself because of traumatizing experiences, such as leaving home and/or academic stress. For other students alcohol and drugs become a

The recent cases that occurred at New York University are shocking enough and further evidence of college students committing suicide. According to Chicago Tribune, three recent incidents that took place in past 13 months at New York University were of Diana Chien, who was 19, had lived in New York for only a month. She transferred here to be close to her boyfriend. John Skolnik, who was 20, a junior from Evanston, Ill., who had just returned from a summer study trip to Cuba. And Michelle Gluckman, 19, who

These situations usually lead the students to contemplate committing suicide to escape the unbearable pain they are experiencing. Some recent cases of university students who committed suicide point to what Tristan Yuvienco’s findings in his

Envisage being notified that someone important in your life has recently committed suicide. I can imagine that it would be horrifying for one to discover that their friend, classmate, student, or child has, unfortunately, took their own life. After discovering this appalling news, one would most likely ponder, what the cause of the person committing suicide was. In many cases, the cause of s student’s sudden death is due to the atrocious effects of stress. For instance, at Appalachian State University, a student named Anna Smith committed suicide on campus due to the stress of trying to be perfect in school, according to The New York Times. This incident and other countless amounts of incidents in North Carolina dealing with student stress could have easily been prevented. Moreover, many people fail to realize that stress is a serious issue, especially in student’s life. While dealing with exams, homework, tests, and deadlines, a student can experience this issue. In North Carolina, stress among students is an issue that is consistently on the rise, ensuring students interact with others and improving student’s eating habits, must occur to improve the amount of stress a student encounters in his or her life.

Campus mental health statistics paint an alarming picture of the incidence of suicide rates on college campuses and by some measures they are getting worse. Almost one in three students have admitted to considering suicide. Mental health needs on campus are real and serious, they are also growing, which is