More college students are turning to their schools for help with anxiety, depression and other mental health problems, but many wait for weeks for treatment. On some campuses, the number of students seeking treatment has nearly doubled over the last five years while overall enrollment has remained relatively flat, an Associated Press review of more than three dozen public universities found. The increase has been tied to fading stigma around mental health and mental health care, along with rising rates of depression and other disorders. Universities have expanded their mental health clinics, but the growth is slow at many of them, and demand keeps surging. Long waits have led to some student suicides, which, in turn, have provoked protests at schools from Maryland to California. Meanwhile, campus counseling centers grapple with low morale and high burnout as staff members face increasingly heavy workloads. Since 2014, the number of students receiving mental health treatment has risen by 35%, while total enrollment grew just 5%. Pictured: Ashtyn Aure, who visited a clinic last year at Utah Valley University when she felt like she was having a breakdown and was told the wait list stretched for months ‘It’s an incredible struggle, to be honest,’… Read full this story
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