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Depresh Mode with John Moe

A Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses

Depresh Mode with John Moe

Maximum Fun

Mental Health, Comedy, John Moe, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Health & Fitness

5777 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Plenty of reasons for hope but no easy solution

Transcript

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0:00.0

A note to our listeners, this episode contains mentions of suicide.

0:05.6

It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

0:15.7

The annual Healthy Minds survey released in 2023 was taken by 90,000 college students.

0:25.1

And the results were pretty bleak.

0:27.6

Over 60% of students met the criteria for a mental health disorder.

0:32.3

The survey said 44% report depression symptoms, 37% for anxiety, 15% were considering suicide, which was the highest

0:41.8

rate in the 15 years they've been doing the survey. You can look at other recent surveys and

0:46.6

studies, and the numbers vary. Sometimes they're a lot worse. Some point to a little improvement

0:51.3

since the darkest days of the pandemic, but not a lot of

0:55.1

improvement. The research really all points in the same direction. We're in a mental health crisis

1:01.1

in America. We've talked about that before. People are suffering and there isn't nearly enough

1:05.7

available care for them. And things are especially rough for people in their late teens and early 20s,

1:11.6

the kind of folks who are often college students.

1:14.6

Dr. Jesse Gold is the chief wellness officer for the University of Tennessee System

1:19.6

and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

1:29.1

Dr. Jesse Gold, welcome to Depression Mode.

1:31.9

Thanks for having me.

1:33.2

You've been working in academia for a while.

1:35.9

You've been observing this ugly trend firsthand.

1:40.2

First off, when did it start to get so bad with college students and mental health?

1:45.5

The way I think about it is it's probably always been bad, but maybe we're talking about it a little bit more.

1:51.3

You know, people are more comfortable talking about mental health.

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