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Depression: An Urgent Psychological Problem for College Students

By Nan Mulin

Good morning! Everyone. Today the topic of my presentation is mind and body. And I want to focus on depression among college students. So, my title is, Depression: An Urgent Psychological Problem for College Students. Now, let me show you something about depression on campus. According to a research, the prevalence of depression in college students in China is 15%-40%, which is significantly higher than the general population's 5%-6%. Can you calculate that how many times more likely college students are to suffer from depression than the general population? So today what I want to say is that depression is becoming more and more common and serious among college students and it needs our attention, diagnosis and prevention.

My presentation will consist of four parts. The trend. The factors. The characteristics. And the depression prevention.

Then comes to the first part. The trend. According to a research by the school of Public Health in Shandong University, the prevalence of depression in Chinese college students ranged from 8.00% to 74.00% in the past 10 years. And from an online survey by China Youth Daily, 27.6% of college students were seriously depressed, and 60.6% were slightly depressed. We can see that feeling depressed becomes the majority. Furtherly, it showed that there are higher rates of depression in freshmen and juniors. This is the situation in China. What about foreign country? According to another research by American College Health Association in 2016, nearly 24% of college students had suicidal ideation, and the rate of attempted suicide was about 9%. It’s obvious that college students suffering from depression has become a common phenomenon around the world. And it becomes more and more serious.

So, what are the factors that lead to the increasing number of college students suffering from depression? According to the research by school of Public Health in Shandong University, there are mainly three aspects of factors at play. Personality traits, family factors, school and social factors. For the personality traits, generally, people with stubborn personality and aggressive personality are prone to depression.Pessimistic attribution, negative coping style and dysfunctional attitude are the high-risk factors.Self-cognitive bias is also associated with depression. For the family factors, parents' low warmth, low emotion and low understanding are closely related to the development of depression. Improper parenting such as excessive favoritism, over-protection is one of the important factors that lead to college students' depression. And for the school and social factors, the exam-oriented education leads to the students' one-sided development, heavy work, poor relationship often affect their emotion. The school's improper management, lack of the mental health education work of the former school is also at play.

But knowing the factors is not enough, we should know how to recognize the symptoms of depression. So we can consciously avoid it in our daily life. Depression in college students is mainly manifested by long-term low mood, gradual loss of interest in the world around them, lack of concentration, self-guilt and inexplicable physical pain, insomnia and difficulty getting up, and even the extreme idea such as suicide.

And after recognizing the symptoms, we should take some actions to prevent depression. According to the research, there are three levels of prevention. Primary prevention is the prevention of possible etiology and risk factors before the occurrence of depression in college students which can reduce the chance of exposing college students to risk factors of depression. Secondary prevention is to detect the existence of depression as early as possible and prevent the progress of depression, and to prevent the development of depressive symptoms to more serious direction. Tertiary prevention is taking measures to reduce the risk of depression after its onset in order to have a favorable prognosis. For college students who have already suffered from depression, psychological treatment should be provided in time.

Understanding the current situation of college students' depression, helping them to get out of the depression dilemma and formulating measures to prevent and cure their depression are of great importance for college students' mental health.

Finally, it comes to a conclusion, depression is not far away from us. Instead, it’s always around us. The prevalence of depression among college students in China is high and increasing year by year, which seriously threatens their physical and mental health. And college students are in a critical period of development in their life. Freshmen's adaptation to college life and study, senior students' future life planning and other factors all affect their emotional changes. Therefore, it is urgent for us to study,




diagnose and prevent depression, promote the healthy growth of college students' mental health. And this needs our joint efforts. That’s all, thank you!

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