Comparison Of Mental Health Problems Among Undergraduate Students

I choose to upload this essay because it is my last quarter’s final project, and though it is not a happy topic, it is very important to students and faculty, especially the college administration faculty. Therefore, I choose to upload this one.

Comparison of Mental Health Problems between
Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students
Xinghang Lu
University of Denver

Last month, a girl who was only 20 committed suicide in my previous university in China. This girl used to live next to my dorm, and it was hard to believe such sad news happened around you. The reason why she committed suicide is that she had mental health problem. She had left school for one year because of mental health problem. How would such
In other words, both undergraduate and graduate students are facing the problem of mental health. However, there are numerous reasons of having mental health problems, and the causes of undergraduate students and graduate students are a little different. Most undergraduate students have mental health problems because of the peer pressure, anxiety, depression, busy lifestyle, and other things that are related to campus life. However, the graduate students are often suffering from mental health problems because they struggle to find a job in the slow economy and begin to establish their careers but they are not ready (“Increasing mental health problems seen in students on college campuses,” 2012). In other words, the causes of mental health problems between undergraduate students and graduate students are different. The treatment should be different, but it is normally same among all the universities. They all have a health counseling center and provide counseling to all the students. Mental health problem is a serious problem to deal with on campus, and there are some different treatments among different universities. It is meaningful to investigate this serious problem on campuses and evaluate the universities’ solution. Therefore, this paper explores the mental health problem among college students in the United States, and it
Though both undergraduate and graduate students are college students, they have different needs and situation. According to Wyatt and Oswalt (2013), graduate students have a higher risk of mental health problems due to stress, while undergraduate students have a higher risk of mental health problems because of feelings. Though the treatments for undergraduate and graduate students of mental health problems are the same, the prevention should be different. My suggestions is to provide some fun activities to graduate students who have more stress than undergraduate students and provide an open conversation class to undergraduate students. According to Duval (2008), graduate students are often with low motivation, a lack of sleep at the expense of extracurricular activities or a social life. In other words, graduate students are under big stress, and they do not have ways to relieve this stress. In DU, there are numerous associations and fraternities, but few or almost none of them are welcome to graduate students. Graduate students also need breaks. They cannot focus on both academics and jobs or only academics all the time. They should get involved in some activities, and they should be motivated. The graduate students used to have many motivations. However, one of the problems that has happened to graduate students recently is that they do not