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- Askee, on 08/17/2008, -1/+112The price of text books is enough to make anyone want to kill themselves.
Seriously though, speaking from experience college can be extremely stressful, even overwhelming at times, and those in need deserve all the help they can get. I hope some good comes as a result of this survey, - Tomboys, on 08/17/2008, -3/+86That number seems kinda low to me.
- Dabaum, on 08/17/2008, -1/+66The group that committed suicide is severely underrepresented in this survey.
- atlquaker, on 08/17/2008, -1/+53wait until they see their loan repayment schedule...
- norman619, on 08/17/2008, -1/+38I'm betting part of it is that kids who are not cut out for college are forced into it by their parents and high school guidance counselors. People don't like to hear this but not everyone is cut out for college. Nothing wrong with that. High school hardly prepares kids for college. In high school they are spoon fed, and in some cases forced fed, information. In college it does not work that way. It's all up to you.
- Coottie, on 08/17/2008, -3/+36Is it really all that surprising? From a very early age society keeps us in fear. Fear of failing (no sex), fear of success (no friends), fear of being normal (no friends or sex) and the list goes on and on.
We idolize movie stars and envy the toys that they have and we realize that many of us will never, ever know what that kind of financial stability feels like.
Couple these things with the fact that most kids today have parents that have been laid off or otherwise ***** over by their employers and kids think.....meh.
What's more surprising to me is that we don't have more kids actually killing themselves. I'm glad for that but I'm also surprised.
I would hope that parents would teach their kids that it's ok to be themselves....live their own lives and explore the world in which we live. It's also OK if one doesn't pursue a conventional career. - ScottMcIntyre, on 08/17/2008, -7/+31There's serious pressure on students to get good grades. Some can't cope. Let's hope there are effective support groups working in colleges and universities to deal with this issue.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+21The people who just thought about it are differentiated from those who seriously considered it. Who the hell are the other half who say they haven't even thought about it hypothetically? When you see it happen in a movie or TV show, you don't process it or mentally apply it to yourself at all?
- talonstriker, on 08/17/2008, -2/+21I imagine a large number of the students affected are freshmen who are shellshocked. Its really a wakeup call when you ace classes in HS and get 70s in college. I experienced this before giving away to apathy thanks to the rest of the class sucking also. When I became a sophomore, I was just happy that I sucked less than the rest of the class.
- staystellar, on 08/17/2008, -3/+22if you really think about it, everyone thinks of suicide at least once in their life. it's a pretty normal part of being human.
- thegrantman, on 08/17/2008, -1/+18"students gave these reasons for their suicidal thinking": #3 ..."the desire to end their life". Well now,that was certainly a surprise.
- hehdot, on 08/17/2008, -0/+14All these tough ***** saying these kids have no "reason" to be depressed and are being "weak" have obviously never suffered from a depression. It's not something you can just snap out of. It's not like you can wake up one morning and go "I'm done being depressed" and go ahead and have a normal life again. I understand some of you have had it way tougher than most, and you claim to never have felt suicidal, blahblahblah. It's beside the point. *Clinical* depression is a very real disease and not just a state of mind. These people don't choose to be "weak" and take life harder than you do. Depression is a disease and requires medication and therapy.
I'm sorry your daddy beat you with a stick and you had to had to eat maggots as a kid because you were so poor and you had to work 7 jobs and join the military and you got through college eventually anyway. It really doesn't matter. Just because you had it tough doesn't mean you get to judge other people for having difficulties in their life when they seem less grave than the ones you experienced. Get out of your ***** ivory tower. - nullcodes, on 08/17/2008, -4/+17I wanted to digg this story down but then I was afraid the submitter may want to commit suicide.
- phoggey, on 08/17/2008, -1/+13I can tell you're obviously an engineer.
- norman619, on 08/17/2008, -2/+14It's been like this for a LONG time. You are talking as if it's a new development.
- martynda, on 08/17/2008, -0/+11Wait till you sit in a cube 8-5 and do "busywork"
- bdc83, on 08/17/2008, -8/+19Probably after listening to My Chemical Romance
- thailand1972, on 08/17/2008, -2/+13Height of the sex drive for guys at that age - just when you're broke and have acne :(
- saikyan, on 08/17/2008, -1/+12Every... song... sounds... the SAME!!!!!!
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+10You had to PAY for "collage"
Get a refund son. - aceisstupid, on 08/17/2008, -0/+9I grew up poor as *****, and I'm still pretty poor, but I don't look down upon people who happened to grow up rich. I do look down upon people who feel entitled because of their financial status. Not every well-to-do person is a prick though. I've enrolled myself in college (not a 4-year because that is ridiculously over-priced and I would like to be making money within a year or two...), I'm paying for it on my own dime. I get my bills paid and I'm actually a very happy person.
- kfconme, on 08/17/2008, -1/+10life's not a bitch, life's a beautiful woman. you just call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that p*ssy.
- tjrecord, on 08/17/2008, -1/+9...yeah... who IS this "expectations" anyways?
- treas, on 08/17/2008, -0/+7Wow, you paid for a collage. Impressive.
on a more serious note, it's quite telling that you feel the need to exert your ego on this website. Some people are not as headstrong as you, that's life. Everyone's brain acts differently, and if you're going to consider someone "weak" because they had a suicidal thought in their life, or have a chemical imbalance - so be it. But your idea of a social natural selection is skewed. These days it seems Humans are evolving through the things they build, not the genes they possess. What if these "weak" people went on to cure cancer, or become an olympic athlete?
Don't be so quick to call people out.
Your post is probably a lie, too. - heynow21, on 08/17/2008, -1/+8Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus, the committee's ranking Republican, explained that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), the law that requires the regulations, is all about saving the youth of America from a potentially lethal addiction. "McGill University found that one-third of college students who gamble on the Internet ultimately attempted suicide," he averred. He added, "That is why the rate of suicide on our college campuses has doubled in the past 10 years."
There you go, just let them finish banning it and all these problems go away.
(He was actually just blatantly lying about that) - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+7Suicidal thoughts don't just happen to people who have never suffered a day in their life, as you so eloquently put it. While it may be true that the majority who actually go through with it have reasons we might interpret as petty (losing girlfriend, losing iPod, about to be arrested for spreading anthrax through the mail, etc.), depression doesn't just hit you because of things like that. Speaking from personal experience, a lot of times these thoughts decide to come up not because of a setback, but because something in your life triggers them. It can be anything from an offhand remark to just seeing something in nature. Those who claim that they've never felt anything of that nature are either unfeeling bastards or liars.
Unfortunately, when you can't get the help you need, it just gets worse and worse. It takes a strong person to resist the temptation of suicide, and sadly most who end up doing it are not able to become that strong (because of a lack of help). - Bigcolby, on 08/17/2008, -1/+7the actual suicides happen more often than you might think, you just don't hear about them because more often than not the family opts to keep it a private matter and thus it doesn't get any coverage nor much public information to use as statistics
- digitalpencil, on 08/17/2008, -1/+715% seriously considering suicide seems a little high but who honestly hasn't at some point during their lives, considered topping themselves? even if it is just a "oh, i'd be better off dead".. everyone goes through that at some point if not many junctures in their life and to sensationalize the fact for a supposed research project seems a little callous.
- treas, on 08/17/2008, -0/+5:(
- quickcomment, on 08/17/2008, -0/+5I'm going to admit, I was never the most balanced person out there but my very short-lived uni experience made me very suicidal for a very long time.
What did it? Ultimately it was the lack of any support from the administrators and rules/policies/laws that made has not only made it impossible for me to finish a degree, but has also rendered my schooling a worthless investment with no way to correct the problem. When a school advises you, with a high GPA and 2 years left, that you should have never been accepted to college in the first place and that one of your only and best options is to drop out, it tends to do that to you... - thailand1972, on 08/17/2008, -1/+6whose, not who's
- digitaldivinci, on 08/17/2008, -1/+6Dugg for selling my Wii to buy two text books that the university might give me 20 bucks apiece for at the end of the semester if I am lucky.
- DarZaccaro, on 08/17/2008, -2/+6I think that "...having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives" is a little vague.
- Disjunto, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4This is the one thing I like about the UK educational system, As we go Secondary School->College->Uni. sec school we are just fed crap and expected to lap it up, in college we were given a bit of freedom, kind of a half step towards uni where we are just let loose to screw it up ourselves, but we've had a bit of preparation the two years before.
This is assuming people don't stay on at Secondary School for Sixth-Form instead of a separate college - treas, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4I hope that's not as a freelance writer.
- honeymustardn, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5Can we keep Digg as Digg and 4chan as 4chan? Thanks.
- fletchsd, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5There is a big difference between seriously considering suicide and actually doing it. I went to UCSD and there were a couple each year. Mostly by jumping off large buildings. One person waited until graduating, covered his room in plastic sheeting and shot himself. Another jumped off the 10th floor right after finals. There are many factors that lead to severe depression in college. Sleep deprivation along with alcohol, I would imagine lead many to consider suicide, however only a few really carry it out. That being said, if you know someone who is severely depressed take the warning signs seriously and report it to your RA or Dean of Students.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -2/+6Christians know that Suicide= Hell. I don't know how it is for Muslims, but if you aren't trying to take out infidels, I'm assume suicide is frowned upon.
- Sornos, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5Oh poor you. Only you can have a hard life. Only you have to work at things. All the rest of us has had everything handed to us.
- hehdot, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Don't feel too bad; I'm not broke and I don't have acne and I'm still not getting any.
- CindyMindy, on 08/17/2008, -2/+5My freshman year in college is when my anxiety attacks started. I was stupid and took 16 hours of classes and lived two states away from my family and friends. I definitely wasn't ready. I didn't contemplate suicide, but I felt like the walking dead a lot. Anxiety has a way of making your entire world seem vague and cloudy.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -6/+9and what percent are dumb spoiled american kids who have never suffered a day in their lives?
- treas, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3DiggGeek24: When I was 15 I stowed away in a cargo ship to germany worked as a cook for a year learned German till the cops found out I was 15 and from America so they sent me home and my mom locked me to a bed in the basement for 6 months.
DiggGeek24: I escaped and burned her house down ran away till I was cough and arrested at 18 spent 5 years in jail got 8 months after I shanked a guy.
So when did you start college? - lunasunshine, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4Suicides don't get a lot of press to avoid copycats.
- LemonChicken, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3It's not okay. Trust me.
- Pikester, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3Isn't it more selfish if the family/friends won't let a person die in order to keep themselves happy while the person is suffering?
- VoidTemplar, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q297/Linkttp/FA ...
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3Parents, friends, family and yourself to name a few.
- treas, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3I can see you are very strong mentally, the genes you possess have allowed your cranium to grow to 10x the normal thickness. See: Collage
Also, you're probably still paying your student loans because you went to a ***** school (See: Collage) and cannot land a high salary job.
It's okay though, we shouldn't help the guy who might cure cancer when he is older, we should let him kill himself - because he has weak genes! - inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Hardly, razor blades are for those who want attention.
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