한국이나 미국이나 젋은이들이 미래를 불확실하게 보고 있는것 같습니다. 젊은이가 가진것은 없어도 꿈을 먹고 살아야 하는데 우울하고 정신실환이 많아지는 것은 세상이 너무 바쁘게 돌아가서 그런것이 아닐까요? 세상이 더 천천히 돌아가도 아무런 문제가 없으면 좋으련만
◆ "미래, 매우 불안" 17.3% vs "전혀 안 불안" 3%
◆ 고졸 20대 70% "10년 후 미래 예상하기 어렵다"
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Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers
By JAN HOFFMAN
MAY 27, 2015 12:07 PM May 27, 2015 12:07 pm 377 Comments
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A therapy dog named Sparky gives some love to Ashley Perez, 18, and Nik Keebler, 22, during an event at the University of Central Florida's Center for Counseling and Psychological Services.Credit Douglas Bovitt for The New York Times
ORLANDO, Fla. — One morning recently, a dozen college students stepped out of the bright sunshine into a dimly lit room at the counseling center here at the University of Central Florida. They appeared to have little in common: undergraduates in flip-flops and nose rings, graduate students in interview-ready attire.
But all were drawn to this drop-in workshop: "Anxiety 101."
As they sat in a circle, a therapist, Nicole Archer, asked: "When you're anxious, how does it feel?"
"I have a faster heart rate," whispered one young woman. "I feel panicky," said another. Sweating. Ragged breathing. Insomnia.
Causes? Schoolwork, they all replied. Money. Relationships. The more they thought about what they had to do, the students said, the more paralyzed they became.
Anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students, though depression, too, is on the rise. More than half of students visiting campus clinics cite anxiety as a health concern, according to a recent study of more than 100,000 students nationwide by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State.
Nearly one in six college students has been diagnosed with or treated for anxiety within the last 12 months, according to the annual national survey by the American College Health Association.
The causes range widely, experts say, from mounting academic pressure at earlier ages to overprotective parents to compulsive engagement with social media. Anxiety has always played a role in the developmental drama of a student's life, but now more students experience anxiety so intense and overwhelming that they are seeking professional counseling.
As students finish a college year during which these cases continued to spike, the consensus among therapists is that treating anxiety has become an enormous challenge for campus mental health centers.
Like many college clinics, the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Central Florida — one of the country's largest and fastest-growing universities, with roughly 60,000 students — has seen sharp increases in the number of clients: 15.2 percent over last year alone. The center has grown so rapidly that some supply closets have been converted to therapists' offices.
More students are seeking help partly because the stigma around mental health issues is lessening, noted Stephanie Preston, a counselor at U.C.F.
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