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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So- here goes.  The number of kids with mental illness first appearing in college has absolutely skyrocketed since Covid.

Anecdotally this is what I know:
2 co-workers (kids placed on psychaitric hold)
2 neighbors (kids fell into deep depression; parents had to fly out and bring them home)
1 woman at gym (son had first schizophrenia attack)
2 friends of neighbor's kids (depression and had to take semesters off)
1 good friend's son picked up by police wandering with first mental break--ended up in jail in another state because police didn't recognize symptoms

Studies/surveys now show kids in this demo group --30-35% are suffering from mental illness.  And boys with depression can show absolutely zero signs to close family members and friends.

We aren't allowing our kids to go West to school. Not just for this reason, but also because with the airlines and the trouble and expense of flights and for the fact for both of them their intended majors are much better served in this area.

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For the majority of these, I would not respond by jumping in my car to drive 7 hours. [/quote]

[b]The one sitting in a jail cell in a mental break DEFINITELY needed his parents to show up. [/b]And it was traumatic for everyone.  If they hadn't stepped in it would have been ugly.  They were able to drive him to and select an in-patient facility near their home.  There is no way he would have gotten out of prison, had the proper legal representation and been able to be transported in his manic, schizophrenic state without his parents taking him.  They were luckily 75 minute drive away.[/quote]

I agree! But I would have flown, not driven for that level of emergency. Like you say, it was lucky that his parents could be there in 75 minutes.

On the other end, needing to take a semester off for depression is neither a "jump in the car and drive now" emergency OR a last-minute flight emergency. 
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You really think you can just book a flight that easily--depending on the location of the school, flight availability and number of flights per day and/if you need a connection?  My friend has to book a flight and then a train or rent a car for another hour drive.  It is a big hassle if they are trying to do this with little notice.  In an emergency, it would be next to impossible.

[b]Now is we are talking direct flights to Boston that happen from DC literally every hour and they are right there that's one thing. [/b] But a lot of these schools in the midwest or different portions of Cali, etc. are not that direct.[/quote]

I agree with you, and I also said a DIRECT flight is a better proposition than a 7-8 hour drive in an emergency situation. It's just that a very long drive isn't really that great of an emergency plan, especially if you get the news late at night, and now we are talking an all-night drive and an exhausted parent trying to deal with the medical or criminal justice system? It's just not much of a plan at all, if that's what we are trying to plan around.[/quote]

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