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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid went to college and suffered the start of a serious mental illness—schizophrenia. There was no prior history of this illness. I was very upset at how the college managed the issue, since child also had rapidly declining executive function and energy levels.

Any thoughts OP on how to better handle mental health? [/quote]

(OP here): This is very tough. I'm sorry for your child. Students can start a semester strong, and then just disappear, and the reasons can be opaque to a professor. The whole network has to work--residence hall directors, advisors/deans, medical center, etc. And lots of kids fall through the cracks. I'm one of the faculty who tends to be very empathetic, and I have a lot of colleagues like this. Sometimes the kids are just checked out and there isn't an underlying crisis. I tend to think there needs to be a way to hit "pause" and leave, get your stuff together, then come back and not have a huge negative mark (or a bunch of Fs) on your record. Sometimes kids have acute crises that ought not destroy the whole trajectory. [/quote]

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