Depression and Suicide Among University Students

[MrPEDOCTOR]

The number keep increasing year by year. 

[happinesson]

people like this needs understanding, help and treatment. let us be sensitive to reach them out.

[akompsupport]

OK so my comment lacked sensitivity to say the least, but it's certainly true that we are placing our young people in a very bad situation upon graduation. the College atmosphere is very free, where one can socialize, learn, experiment at one's leisure, but the world at large, regulated as it is by finance and ownership capital, is a brutal system of soul crushing regulations and heartless demands. There must be a better way? Instead of GDP, we need to focus on individual fufillment and happinss

[akompsupport]

David realized that there is no escape except suicide. They will destroy your heart and soul and body before discarding you in a shallow grave. The only thing better than suicide is shooting bankers...

[RedDwarffs]

@akompsupport if I had a thousands likes, I would give them all to you! not because I think that shooting people is right, but because you're the mot intelligent person that i have came across in the comments.

[dojOdRiFTeR]

its the unversity's fault they r over doing it the only way kids surivive is by cheating

[TortureAXE]

One day, people will do nothing more than studying and working. You'll only get to live a fulfilling life during your first 7 years of life. The rest will be spent working. A lot of people will not know how to laugh righteously, they will only know that laughing is something that comes when you surpass the other or when you stomp the other from above. And, unfortunately, getting a job is becoming extremely difficult and the "low payed" jobs are being despised by higher ups.

[AleekahTV]

@SD20MMC I totally agree with you. That's my entire philosophy on life in just two sentences.

[celermail]

I have been depressed for almost two years, What I can tell you is that you MUST get rid of the stupid ideas they teach you at home and at school: "i have to prove i'm good , i have to get good marks, i have to gain money and a good job, i have to study something hard, i have to make my family proud of me, i have to get a wife and children and a big house and a big car". Just ask yourself what you want day by day, what you feel like learning or if you just prefer a normal job.Let the others talk

[alexhallgren]

i experienced suicidal thoughts this whole past year @ university i am seeking therapy and trying to deal with it but it is really tough because my friends and family don't understand what i'm going through it's like they just think i am making excuses to avoid working hard

[7Flowersdeath7]

@alexhallgren Hey, just wanted to say that I feel like I understand what you mean, and that I feel the same way now. I'm miserable sometimes because I see no true purpose in staying in college and in jumping through all of the flaming hoops set before me. Sometimes the pain and flood of emotion is unbearable and I try any way I can to channel it into creative activities, but it still always hurts to feel like no one else feels the same way. I'm also a former self-abuser/suicidal individual.

[alexhallgren]

@7Flowersdeath7 i gotta say i'm doing much better now i've been in therapy for a lil over a month and i've been taking some serotonin boosters and it's working

there is a light at the end of the tunnel, i'm still in school and it's not affecting me like it used to

[LORDVAGIN]

I had depression myself in the last semester of high school, and let me tell you one thing GET HELP RIGHT AWAY if you feel like you cannot think right,concentrate,think positive, or feel any motivation or pleasure when doing activities you enjoy. Cipralex is the medication I have been taking since and have been progressively increasing the dose. Although I longer feel depressed, my doctor as told me that I am still suffering from the effects one example is concentration is not yet fullyrestored

[LORDVAGIN]

@LORDVAGIN "Although I no longer* feel depressed"

[LoveMercyKindness]

no more hate

[fathersonnholyspirit]

None of you have to live with this anymore. I used to be a victim of this and I know the frustration, embarrassment and fear that is involved. Please go to my site. You dont need to buy anything, I promise you its already been paid for fuentesevangelism-.-c-o-m-

[andrtaker]

Same thing happened to my brother, he died of suicide a week ago... Found his body in his room with blood all over the table. Im so sad and pissed on what he did. He never talked about his problems to anyone thats the problem, couldnt help him for that.

[sunispretty]

@cait72590 i agree with u and i have been that way once too but i dont think anyone cared about me and if i was goin suicide!!!

[cait72590]

This is just so amusing to me when people talk about "help" I attempted suicide last year and the only thing anyone did to "help" me was yell at me about a hospital bill, kick me out of school, and give me this "therapy" where I sat in a room and this mumbling old guy gave me pamphlets with smiley faces on them, until the insurance didn't want to pay for it. That is what is available for "help". I'm only lucky that I never got locked up.

[Irkcibozkurt]

the last 3-4 months i really feel fukin depressed and i don't think it will go away .. the bad memories i have always come to my mind and i feel hopeless.but committing suicide is not a good decision, i know that.

good video btw..tnx for postin'

[hologram777]

irkcibozkurt, have you thought about getting counseling? If you don't want to do that, you can try writing the memories down which might help. Until you deal with the past, the memories will keep coming to the foreground until you have confronted them. Psychotropic medications can also help to alleviate depressive symptoms so that you can address better what's going on internally.

[Irkcibozkurt]

@hologram777 um yeah, i tried that, but medications made the rhings worse. i went to the doctor and he stopped the recent drug I'm taking. i feel slightly better now, as those suicidal/homicidal thoughts have started to go away. tnx for ur advise.

[hologram777]

Your welcome and I'm glad to hear you're feeling a little bit better:) Try to be patient and know that it will take time.

[mdmanofgod]

R.I.P. David Okrent. I Wish I would of been there that day to encourage you. God Bless.

[garmurinn]

or the fact that the universities are overpriced, the books are overpriced, the teachers are overpriced.

[garmurinn]

I think it has something to do with being stuck somewhere and they might have made a mistake somewhere on the road and therefore the university will limit their options so that they cant take a course again.

[ivy12345678ful]

to please people around you, so you have to live your life suffered everyday. It is a happy life for you? how long can you hold on? People around you dont know your feeling/ and not every thing can be solved or can be express.

[m1ke905]

look at that old douche bag at 9:38...falling asleep...hope next time he falls asleep, he doesnt wake up...that fucking ungrateful bastard.

[Apink420]

take anti-depressants

[quizzabella]

While I was at university I suffered from depression. I didn't know that was what it was really - complaining to someone about being unhappy seemed really stupid and self absorbed. What the hell did I have to complain about? Given all the problems in the world I was really ashamed to seek help.

Luckily I have a lovely family who got through to me and stopped me from doing something really stupid.

[quizzabella]

When you are at your lowest it's easy to think that there is no hope and that no-one cares. Please, anyone who is reading this and feels like that, don't give up. You aren't alone. If you don't want to go to your doctor then there are many websites with messageboards where you can talk to other people who feel the same way and can give advice and support. We're all human, we all have our faults and faliures. Live, learn and fight for your happiness.

[UnGatoExtraviado]

yeah man your expectations make you sad, just live with what you have and learn to get the juice out of it instead of staying inside of yourself feeling self pity (i do it once in a while i know....) WE ARE FORGETING THAT WE ARE MONKEYS FROM THE JUNGLE!!!!!!!

[yetanotherone1234567]

birth+school+work+death=life

[zeus153]

there is nothing rational about life nor about suicide, we can only argue, but no one knows what he's talking about, there is no right or wrong, it's just a choice

[milliman93]

there's nothing you can do sometimes. it just hurts to live

[TheLogicJunkie]

This is an important video. College students commit a lot of suicide, because the college administrators are actively trying to crush the newly-budding futures of the majority of their students.

...Of course, the suicides are an added bonus, as least as far as the college administrations are concerned, because it "thins the herd", which is what they enjoy.

[SD20MMC]

Life is a slow disease. When you are born you are forced to this world and expect to spend your entire life working.

[KigurumiAlice]

Just take life easy, with rest and play. No one's life is that perfect.

[voyagerrocket]

yea and if you dont die of disease or defect then you get old and shriveled and die an old crusty person.

[metalfire7777]

so true

[kcjk1991]

@SD20MMC

that's why i dont believe in communism =D

[Ieatbabyseals]

Thanks for posting...