Depression and Suicide Among University Students

In this University of Kentucky video, learn about depression as Inez Okrent, mother of a college student who committed suicide, shares her stories while Russ Federman, director of counseling and psychological services at University of Kentucky, examines depression trends and his personal experiences as well. Depression is a serious issue that affects adolescents and college students alike. This emotional and personal video of Orkent outlines the importance of bringing attention to depression and how crucial it is to draw attention to this often controversial topic.

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Education

[SD20MMC]

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

[garmurinn]

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

[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

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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

[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.