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Day to focus on mental health
Dana Johnson
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: News
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Expert observers are agreeing.
There is a rise in mental disorders among today's college students, according to Psychology Today's Web site. Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and other serious mental conditions first rear their head in late adolescence, the age of a majority of college students.
College is an easy time for students to lose track of their schedules. Just being in college may be overwhelming.
Feelings of depression may accidentally be confused with the normal feelings of entering a new environment, or vice versa. Sometimes, the multitude of life's changes that occur during the college years can trigger serious depression.
Clinical depression is a common medical illness affecting more than 19 million American adults each year. Like screenings for other illnesses, depression screenings should be a routine part of healthcare.
This is why today is National Depression Screening Day. Sponsored by the National Depression Screening Project, a mental health screening program, nationally screening tests will be taking place all day.
Counseling and Psychological Services at SCSU will be using the day to raise awareness about the necessity of screening, though they do offer free screening for students all year round.
Anyone can complete a screening online at www.stcloudstate.edu/counseling/OnlineAssessments.asp or stop by Counseling and Psychological Services in Stewart Hall, Room 103. The online screenings are completely confidential and used as a self-assessment tool.
"It's a national effort to increase awareness about depression," said John Eggers, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at SCSU. "It's a very treatable illness, and the more people we can get to pay attention to it and sort of self examine themselves in order to get them to come in, then the better our chances are of helping people deal with it effectively."
SCSU's Counseling and Psychological Services will be raising awareness about depression in a variety of ways all day.
There is a rise in mental disorders among today's college students, according to Psychology Today's Web site. Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and other serious mental conditions first rear their head in late adolescence, the age of a majority of college students.
College is an easy time for students to lose track of their schedules. Just being in college may be overwhelming.
Feelings of depression may accidentally be confused with the normal feelings of entering a new environment, or vice versa. Sometimes, the multitude of life's changes that occur during the college years can trigger serious depression.
Clinical depression is a common medical illness affecting more than 19 million American adults each year. Like screenings for other illnesses, depression screenings should be a routine part of healthcare.
This is why today is National Depression Screening Day. Sponsored by the National Depression Screening Project, a mental health screening program, nationally screening tests will be taking place all day.
Counseling and Psychological Services at SCSU will be using the day to raise awareness about the necessity of screening, though they do offer free screening for students all year round.
Anyone can complete a screening online at www.stcloudstate.edu/counseling/OnlineAssessments.asp or stop by Counseling and Psychological Services in Stewart Hall, Room 103. The online screenings are completely confidential and used as a self-assessment tool.
"It's a national effort to increase awareness about depression," said John Eggers, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at SCSU. "It's a very treatable illness, and the more people we can get to pay attention to it and sort of self examine themselves in order to get them to come in, then the better our chances are of helping people deal with it effectively."
SCSU's Counseling and Psychological Services will be raising awareness about depression in a variety of ways all day.