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Undergraduates have started to realize how common mental illness is at the College, according to Director of UHS Mental Health Service Dr. Richard D. Kadison...
...does not calculate exact numbers, Kadison says, because it is difficult to determine what constitutes a suicide attempt...
...Kadison also noted that many students dismiss the common symptoms related to the illness. “When students aren’t sleeping, or they are feeling negative, they don’t think of these as signs of depression,” Kadison said. Greater outreach, like the MHAAG screening in Loker Commons, will continue to help students identify these symptoms in themselves and others and direct them to the appropriate University resources for treatment. Loker’s accessibility succeeded in attracting greater numbers than in the past; bringing mental health education to students is much more...
...least once during the year they felt so depressed that it was difficult to function, 7.8 percent reported that they seriously considered committing suicide and approximately 1.1 percent—about nine students of the 930 who responded—reported attempting suicide in the previous year. Richard D. Kadison, director of UHS Mental Health Services, said that Harvard’s numbers are consistent with national trends, but that they remain “very scary data...
According to Kadison, UHS has sufficient resources to provide two to four months of care, either at once or spread apart, for each student with mental health concerns. But the University needs to ensure that all students can receive the full treatment they need, even as the number of students concerned about their mental health continues to rise...