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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But that's exactly the age when schizophrenia hits - especially in males.  Especially if there is family history (you say "no prior" which I assume is the student).  You can't expect colleges to manage everything.  A lot of students, especially schizophrenics who think everything is fine, won't use student health services.  https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/childhood-schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354483#:~:text=In%20most%20people%20with%20schizophrenia,age%2013%20is%20extremely%20rare.[/quote]

You would expect colleges to do a little more with all the practice they’ve had with the serious mental illnesses, no? Really the schools do nothing until it’s way too late to correct course.

A small but important point—several mental illnesses the patient has no idea they’re sick. None. They are not avoiding it. The sick person doesn’t know! Americans would be a little more understanding of someone with age-related dementia, a stroke, or a brain injury. Mental illness is seen as a “lack of effort”[/quote]

It would be nice if top collages accepted students into stem programs with vision and/or hearing disabilities. Instead, they get downgraded in high school and told they “can’t participate” in X competitive club because they can’t (do sign language, enlarge papers, ect..)….then the same students can’t get into top collages as the collages wonder why no competitive clubs?
There is a reason students with disabilities become adults that have trouble getting good jobs. I saw a dismal article where a deaf lady had a PhD in Chemical Engineering. Despite how brilliant she would have to be just for collages to take her, she got her PhD and literally watched as everyone else had jobs while employers skipped her over. I think people feel it’s a success if a student with disabilities just works as a Walmart cashier in life, no matter how brilliant and hard working they are.
I have had parents arrogantly brag that they have runcharities in their kid’s name, have an older sister “help” with the other kid’s National winning projects, join the stem high school faculty and run the competitive club their kid is in, have others take their home based programming competitions for them, and have four summers of unpaid internships at uncle’s/friend’s small coding company (that they show up for only a few weeks). It all sure looks great on the resume for a top collage…….
These same ultra competitive “if I can get away with it, I’m smarter than you and deserve it” parents also gripe about how collage should only be based on EC, grades, and scores alone. That’s because it rigged in the favor of their kids for these areas. 
Done with my rant.[/quote]

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