Alcohol Abuse In College Students
People with depression feel as if they are being trapped in black hole. The feeling of Every time they tried to escape, they were running in place, never escaping the black vortex. Each time they try to escape, they are sucked deeper into a vast hole into nothing but eternal loss. When they scream, no one hears or understands them because they are being vacuumed deeper and deeper into darkness. Depression is more than a mood, it is a serious mental illness.
Life can be very stressful at times. From the time someone is born, until the time they die, people are overcoming everyday challenges that can often be very stressful and push them past the breaking point. People often become frustrated and flustered when they try to cope with …show more content…
stressors on their own. “Some people cope with life's stressors by consuming drugs and alcohol.” (Kosslyn & Rosenberg, 2011, page 385) People the use this alcohol as a clutch and then soon become addicted to these substances. “Drugs or alcohol use that caused distress or trouble with functioning in major areas of life, occurs in dangerous situations, or leads to legal difficulties.” (Kosslyn & Rosenberg, 2011, page 385)
Prolong alcohol and drug use can have very harmful affects on someone who misuses drugs.
“Heavy episodic drinking can result in myriad adverse consequences, such as accidents, sexual abuse, fighting, and even death.”( Merrill, J. E., Reid, A. E., Carey, M. P., & Carey, K. B. 2014) Also according to this article, “More than 30% of college women and 40% of college men report engaging in heavy episodic drinking”. Alcohol misuse in college students seem to be more common than most people think. College is very hard; many children seem to have problems of being independent and learning how to take care of themselves on their …show more content…
own.
College is a time of learning who you are, many move away and live on campus, and the students learn how to manage their studies without someone holding their hand. The students become overwhelmed and turn to drugs for a sense of relief. Little do they know, unfortunately, it leave them with a feeling of need until they get the drug and then they feel empty when they do not have the drug. This empty feeling leads to depression and use drugs as a self help. “More than 80% of college students who experience depression or poor mental health consume alcohol, and many report heavy episodic drinking” (Merrill, J. E., Reid, A. E., Carey, M. P., & Carey, K. B. 2014)
When these college students who experience depression and also drug addiction, other aspects of their life seem to suffer, also. The parts of their life that suffers that most are their social relationships, self image, and their grades. They become isolated when they become addicted and want to be left alone. Their friends and loved ones become less priority than before. Their self image become shot and do not seem themselves of having any worth. They lose focus on their grades and often fall onto academic probation. There are no good results to depression and alcohol and drug use being mixed together.
Although drug addiction and stress from academics, an exposure to trauma can increase college students chances of depression. “In addition, greater trauma exposure and being female were significant predictors of increased depressive symptomatology; however, AA identity was significantly associated with decreased depression symptom severity even after controlling for trauma exposure and gender.” (Boyraz, G., Horne, S. G., Armstrong, A. P., & Owens, A. C., 2015) The results show that depression affection does not matter no matter what race. Many of the students who experience PTSD show no social support. Students had no guidance, social support, or help when they transformed into college students. These increase the risk of developing problems down the road.
Depression does not know restrictions on who it affects.
People did a study to see if gender related perceptions increase the chances of developing depression. They took 83 pilots and compared the workplace atmosphere of the men and women pilots. They found that a great number of men still thought that the women should be doing women's work. This shows how even in today's society, there is still sexism and negativity in the workplace. “While the results of this study concurred with research that suggests that female pilots are at greater risk for negative perceptions and sexism by male pilots, the results did not indicate any greater degrees of depression, stress, or anxiety in women as compared with their male counterparts.” (Walton, R. O., & Politano, P. M., 2014) Although they are not at a greater risk to develop these crippling illnesses, it can drive the women to factors that can hurt
them.
Depression has no limits of who it can affect. This is shown because depression can affect elderly. Along with aging, elderly bodies begins to grow older and weaker. With age, people are more prone to memory loss, weaker bones, and sickness. Their immune system grows weaker and become more fragile. When they become too much for families to take care of, they send them to long term facilities.
Examples of these long term facilities are nursing homes and hospice housing. “Medical problems for LTC residents (e.g., malnutrition, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) are most clearly associated with mortality for those with Alzheimer's disease. In addition, dementia, an abnormal heartbeat, Parkinson's disease, cancer, and infection of the lungs, along with decreased nutrition, lower activities of daily living (ADL) functioning, and older age, have been found to be significant predictors of mortality” (Kane, K. D., Yochim, B. P., & Lichtenberg, P. A., 2010) All of these symptoms increase their chances of developing depression. Many of the residents of LTC become depressed after realizing they are not going home. Their mental health becomes weaker and so does their immune system. All of these symptoms are linked with depression and can cause mortality.
“Approximately 1.8 million individuals reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities across the United States, and it is expected that about 85% of these individuals will die while in this setting.“ (Kane, K. D., Yochim, B. P., & Lichtenberg, P. A., 2010) This shows how serious depression affects the elderly population. This is not a light hearted situation. According to this study, they suggest an entrance scanning when they first come into the facility. This can help reduce the number of deaths caused by depression. This can give the doctors and workers a good idea of what diseases, illnesses, and symptoms that they are dealing with. This can prepare them on how to deal with it and treat it early so hopefully they can reduce the damage and risk these illnesses bring with them. It hopefully can also reduce the mortality rate that long term facilities have.
This shows that depression affects anyone from any race, age, and sex. There is another risk factor, environment. The public is often ignorant towards depression and mental illness. Many people, especially Americans, often turn a blind eye towards depression. They often brush off depression as if it is nothing more than someone being moody and rolling around in self pity. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Depression is a very serious illness that needs to be addressed.
“Public stigma discourages people with depression from seeking help. Attribution theory predicts that psychological causal explanations for depression increase public stigma by emphasizing personal responsibility for the condition.” ( Botha, F. B., & Dozois, D. A., 2015) This shows that today's society does not want to deal with depression. This theory suggests that if you shine a light onto what depression really is and does not put the blame on other people, that it can increase the public knowledge and concern on depression. The more people know about the illness the more it will be taken seriously. This shows that we need to rewire the public knowledge and give them correct knowledge of mental illnesses.
If we give people the right information, we can hopefully lower the amount of depression this work has. As we further learn about depression and other mental illness, we can prepare the publics to look for the warning signs that someone is experiencing depression. Some general warning signs is moodiness, lack or excessive appetite, suicidal thoughts, and isolation. Just because the public has an ignorance of depression, we can eventually squash it with bringing light to depression.
“It is argued that such a finding causes problems for a learned helplessness theory of depression, because it suggests that people can only detect some of the conditions necessary for producing helplessness after they are already depressed.” (Schwartz, B. 1981) This shows that people who experience depression feel hopeless. This can often come from environment and feeling that there is no help. Many people who experience depression feel that there is no help and no way out. That often comes from an environment that lacks a support system. When someone has no support at home, they often feel alone and isolated. With depression, the victim does not believe that there is help or an end to the torture.
The way someone grew up can also increase the chances of developing depression. It can be linked with PTSD, also. If someone had a bad childhood, it can haunt them. They already do not have a support system, and no one to talk to. They are also at an increased risk to alcohol and drug use.
Although depression is an epidemic that is growing by the second, it can be diagnosed early. With help from the public, people can learn the right way to diagnose depression. A doctors diagnosis is the only real diagnosis, though. Doctors are trained to see more in depth symptoms and are professionally trained to treat depression patients.
Depression can be prevented by providing safe and secure environments. Letting someone know that someone is there for them could be the difference between life and death. Depression is a very serious matter. It can sometime lead to suicide. Suicide is never the answer. Many people who have experienced depression and lead to kill themselves could have been prevented if someone was looking out for them, and they know that they had a safe haven to go to.
After a diagnosis has happened, the next step is to treat it. Not everyone responds to one form of depression treatment. Different ages respond to different methods. “Furthermore, no major differences in psychological treatment outcome are evident when comparing evidence from research examining treatment outcome for psychological therapy and CBT between older people and adults of working age.” ( Laidlaw, K., & Kishita, N., 2015) They tried to develop a new theory using older people and see if they respond to this therapy. They believed they would respond because of the different life stages.
Other treatment options are anti-depression medication, counseling, and therapy. The problem with medication is it can be abused and then it has the opposite affect of what it was designed for. Depression should never be handled lightly. Whatever treatment the doctor prescribes, it should be taken to the fullest extent and not be took lightly. Depression is not a game, there is always help. If everyone opened up and let people know that they are there for them, then maybe depression will cease to exist.
Life can be very stressful at times. From the time someone is born, until the time they die, people are overcoming everyday challenges that can often be very stressful and push them past the breaking point. People often become frustrated and flustered when they try to cope with …show more content…
stressors on their own. “Some people cope with life's stressors by consuming drugs and alcohol.” (Kosslyn & Rosenberg, 2011, page 385) People the use this alcohol as a clutch and then soon become addicted to these substances. “Drugs or alcohol use that caused distress or trouble with functioning in major areas of life, occurs in dangerous situations, or leads to legal difficulties.” (Kosslyn & Rosenberg, 2011, page 385)
Prolong alcohol and drug use can have very harmful affects on someone who misuses drugs.
“Heavy episodic drinking can result in myriad adverse consequences, such as accidents, sexual abuse, fighting, and even death.”( Merrill, J. E., Reid, A. E., Carey, M. P., & Carey, K. B. 2014) Also according to this article, “More than 30% of college women and 40% of college men report engaging in heavy episodic drinking”. Alcohol misuse in college students seem to be more common than most people think. College is very hard; many children seem to have problems of being independent and learning how to take care of themselves on their …show more content…
own.
College is a time of learning who you are, many move away and live on campus, and the students learn how to manage their studies without someone holding their hand. The students become overwhelmed and turn to drugs for a sense of relief. Little do they know, unfortunately, it leave them with a feeling of need until they get the drug and then they feel empty when they do not have the drug. This empty feeling leads to depression and use drugs as a self help. “More than 80% of college students who experience depression or poor mental health consume alcohol, and many report heavy episodic drinking” (Merrill, J. E., Reid, A. E., Carey, M. P., & Carey, K. B. 2014)
When these college students who experience depression and also drug addiction, other aspects of their life seem to suffer, also. The parts of their life that suffers that most are their social relationships, self image, and their grades. They become isolated when they become addicted and want to be left alone. Their friends and loved ones become less priority than before. Their self image become shot and do not seem themselves of having any worth. They lose focus on their grades and often fall onto academic probation. There are no good results to depression and alcohol and drug use being mixed together.
Although drug addiction and stress from academics, an exposure to trauma can increase college students chances of depression. “In addition, greater trauma exposure and being female were significant predictors of increased depressive symptomatology; however, AA identity was significantly associated with decreased depression symptom severity even after controlling for trauma exposure and gender.” (Boyraz, G., Horne, S. G., Armstrong, A. P., & Owens, A. C., 2015) The results show that depression affection does not matter no matter what race. Many of the students who experience PTSD show no social support. Students had no guidance, social support, or help when they transformed into college students. These increase the risk of developing problems down the road.
Depression does not know restrictions on who it affects.
People did a study to see if gender related perceptions increase the chances of developing depression. They took 83 pilots and compared the workplace atmosphere of the men and women pilots. They found that a great number of men still thought that the women should be doing women's work. This shows how even in today's society, there is still sexism and negativity in the workplace. “While the results of this study concurred with research that suggests that female pilots are at greater risk for negative perceptions and sexism by male pilots, the results did not indicate any greater degrees of depression, stress, or anxiety in women as compared with their male counterparts.” (Walton, R. O., & Politano, P. M., 2014) Although they are not at a greater risk to develop these crippling illnesses, it can drive the women to factors that can hurt
them.
Depression has no limits of who it can affect. This is shown because depression can affect elderly. Along with aging, elderly bodies begins to grow older and weaker. With age, people are more prone to memory loss, weaker bones, and sickness. Their immune system grows weaker and become more fragile. When they become too much for families to take care of, they send them to long term facilities.
Examples of these long term facilities are nursing homes and hospice housing. “Medical problems for LTC residents (e.g., malnutrition, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) are most clearly associated with mortality for those with Alzheimer's disease. In addition, dementia, an abnormal heartbeat, Parkinson's disease, cancer, and infection of the lungs, along with decreased nutrition, lower activities of daily living (ADL) functioning, and older age, have been found to be significant predictors of mortality” (Kane, K. D., Yochim, B. P., & Lichtenberg, P. A., 2010) All of these symptoms increase their chances of developing depression. Many of the residents of LTC become depressed after realizing they are not going home. Their mental health becomes weaker and so does their immune system. All of these symptoms are linked with depression and can cause mortality.
“Approximately 1.8 million individuals reside in long-term care (LTC) facilities across the United States, and it is expected that about 85% of these individuals will die while in this setting.“ (Kane, K. D., Yochim, B. P., & Lichtenberg, P. A., 2010) This shows how serious depression affects the elderly population. This is not a light hearted situation. According to this study, they suggest an entrance scanning when they first come into the facility. This can help reduce the number of deaths caused by depression. This can give the doctors and workers a good idea of what diseases, illnesses, and symptoms that they are dealing with. This can prepare them on how to deal with it and treat it early so hopefully they can reduce the damage and risk these illnesses bring with them. It hopefully can also reduce the mortality rate that long term facilities have.
This shows that depression affects anyone from any race, age, and sex. There is another risk factor, environment. The public is often ignorant towards depression and mental illness. Many people, especially Americans, often turn a blind eye towards depression. They often brush off depression as if it is nothing more than someone being moody and rolling around in self pity. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Depression is a very serious illness that needs to be addressed.
“Public stigma discourages people with depression from seeking help. Attribution theory predicts that psychological causal explanations for depression increase public stigma by emphasizing personal responsibility for the condition.” ( Botha, F. B., & Dozois, D. A., 2015) This shows that today's society does not want to deal with depression. This theory suggests that if you shine a light onto what depression really is and does not put the blame on other people, that it can increase the public knowledge and concern on depression. The more people know about the illness the more it will be taken seriously. This shows that we need to rewire the public knowledge and give them correct knowledge of mental illnesses.
If we give people the right information, we can hopefully lower the amount of depression this work has. As we further learn about depression and other mental illness, we can prepare the publics to look for the warning signs that someone is experiencing depression. Some general warning signs is moodiness, lack or excessive appetite, suicidal thoughts, and isolation. Just because the public has an ignorance of depression, we can eventually squash it with bringing light to depression.
“It is argued that such a finding causes problems for a learned helplessness theory of depression, because it suggests that people can only detect some of the conditions necessary for producing helplessness after they are already depressed.” (Schwartz, B. 1981) This shows that people who experience depression feel hopeless. This can often come from environment and feeling that there is no help. Many people who experience depression feel that there is no help and no way out. That often comes from an environment that lacks a support system. When someone has no support at home, they often feel alone and isolated. With depression, the victim does not believe that there is help or an end to the torture.
The way someone grew up can also increase the chances of developing depression. It can be linked with PTSD, also. If someone had a bad childhood, it can haunt them. They already do not have a support system, and no one to talk to. They are also at an increased risk to alcohol and drug use.
Although depression is an epidemic that is growing by the second, it can be diagnosed early. With help from the public, people can learn the right way to diagnose depression. A doctors diagnosis is the only real diagnosis, though. Doctors are trained to see more in depth symptoms and are professionally trained to treat depression patients.
Depression can be prevented by providing safe and secure environments. Letting someone know that someone is there for them could be the difference between life and death. Depression is a very serious matter. It can sometime lead to suicide. Suicide is never the answer. Many people who have experienced depression and lead to kill themselves could have been prevented if someone was looking out for them, and they know that they had a safe haven to go to.
After a diagnosis has happened, the next step is to treat it. Not everyone responds to one form of depression treatment. Different ages respond to different methods. “Furthermore, no major differences in psychological treatment outcome are evident when comparing evidence from research examining treatment outcome for psychological therapy and CBT between older people and adults of working age.” ( Laidlaw, K., & Kishita, N., 2015) They tried to develop a new theory using older people and see if they respond to this therapy. They believed they would respond because of the different life stages.
Other treatment options are anti-depression medication, counseling, and therapy. The problem with medication is it can be abused and then it has the opposite affect of what it was designed for. Depression should never be handled lightly. Whatever treatment the doctor prescribes, it should be taken to the fullest extent and not be took lightly. Depression is not a game, there is always help. If everyone opened up and let people know that they are there for them, then maybe depression will cease to exist.