Enough Talk About the Problem, How About a SOLUTION in Stress Management

You're reading Enough Talk About the Problem, How About a SOLUTION in Stress Management, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. ‘Parent and College Students we need a change.’ This is the headline I read every week or so, as another article gets printed by major publications talking about the immense problem on college campuses with mental health across the country. I have been a family therapist for over 20 years working with students in HS and College.  I am also a father of two kids 17 and 19 years old. After being around this population of kids professionally and personally I have concluded one very important thing---we need to change the way we offer help to them. The population of young adults will soon be running our communities.  They will be teachers, police officers, store owners, doctors, nurses and many other professionals.  Many of them will have long histories of mental health issues that are out of control if we don’t make a change soon. The bottom line is we have a large population on most college campuses of students struggling with anxiety, depression and suicidality.  The stats are shocking: 65% of students with overwhelming anxiety 38% of students with depression Only 7% of parents report that their student is having mental health problems Suicide is now the 2nd leading cause of death in colleg...
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