By Fran Kritz, Illustration: Lisk Feng/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, August 6, 2022
The move from high school to college can be a trying one, particularly for students with mental health concerns. But today there are ways to make it easier.
“In the last few years, and especially since the pandemic began, campus resources for all students have proliferated, and ahead of coming to campus is when students should be connecting with the resources that they need,” says Amy Gatto, director of research and evaluation at Active Minds, an organization that works to make talking about mental health on campus as natural as talking about physical health.
A 2021 survey by the American College Health Association of close to 100,000 college students found that 16 percent of college men and 33 percent of college women had been diagnosed with anxiety, and 14 percent of college men and 25 percent of college women had been diagnosed with depression.
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