College students on Meds
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Anonymous
| Are you seeing a lot of college students in the top 20 schools on meds/antidepressants these days? |
Anonymous
| Yes. It's ridiculous. |
Anonymous
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I mean, yeah. Record numbers of anxiety, depression, and ADHD. They're all on something.
Maybe parents should stop trying to produce little walking college application kids from the time they're 10 years old. They're all burnt out and medicated by the time college rolls around. |
Anonymous
The Adderall use on college campuses, both prescribed and illicit, is out of control. When I was a kid, my ADHD "medicine" was my old man's belt, and it was damned effective, with no side effects other than a sore behind. |
Anonymous
Plenty of kids who aren’t on the college prestige hamster wheel are also experiencing record number of anxiety, depression and ADHD. The internet, loss of human connection, overdiagnosis… there’s a lot going on that crosses socioeconomic lines. |
Anonymous
| DC has never needed to be medicated but we would have considered it if recommended by their doctors. No idea how many or which of DC’s friends may or may not be medicated, and if they are, I am sure that their parents and doctors know better than I do about the appropriate care management for them. |
Anonymous
How would anyone know this? |
Anonymous
You forgot the side effect of finding violence against children acceptable. |
Anonymous
Hi, I’m a woman who wasn’t diagnosed with adhd until I was 40, even though I always knew. ADHD meds changed my life. It’s nothing that parents can beat out of you. |
Anonymous
I mean it's almost literally "the beatings will continue until morale improves". |
Anonymous
This. The question is moronic unless it is sent to a college healthcare provider and even then most kids do not go through them. What you are really asking is do you have any one off stories that may or may not be true that kids in the top 20 which you know almost none are using meds? Dumb question and anyone who reponds is a moron. |
Anonymous
| Yes and not just at t20. If a school has less than a 40% admit rate and has a generally UMC population, I estimate at least 1/3 of students are on some kind of medication. |
Anonymous
| No idea but my incoming Yale freshman daughter is on Prozac and it has quite literally changed her life. It’s not always a bad thing, you know. Some people are born with chemical imbalances. |
Anonymous
| I wasn't raised to see this as a moral failing. The only time I needed meds was after witnessing 9/11 in nyc. I have a college athlete who tried everything to fix his anxiety without medicine and after 3 years tried a low dose of lexapro. I'm grateful he told me and found a dr on his own. |
Anonymous
| Nothing to do with T20. My Ivy kid is on no meds and my T100 has anxiety and adhd. |